Antonio De Teffè, Marina Malfatti, Erika Blanc

A wealthy English lord is suffering a mental breakdown following the death of his red-headed wife, Evelyn, whom he feared was cheating on him. He tours local bars and dives, scouring for lovely red-he...( read more  read more... )ads willing to come back to his decaying castle in the country, where he seduces them, then tortures and kills them. His friend the doctor talks him into marrying again to help heal his slowly-rotting mind, which he does--but are the doctor's orders really what he needs?

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R, 92 min.

Directed by: Emilio Miraglia

Release Date: January 1, 1971

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DVD Release Date: July 22, 2003

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  • July 6, 2009
    A little campy, a little titillating, a little scary (VERY little).
  • November 22, 2006
    Wild, naughty, creepy and just plain Italian horror FUN. Erika Blanc is at her most gorgeous, Emilio Miraglia keeps the visuals lush and dangerous and you can cut the sleazy atmosphere with a knife. And what a great poster!
  • December 16, 2008
    This is drive in Stuff, My Copy came out of the Tales from the Bone Yard Collection. Allen is running around killing red heads , until his best friend intro's him to one that looks very much like his wife, oh but there is a plot to hi best buddys plan. Its a cool movie, not much...( read more) horror more suspense. Its worth watching.
  • September 18, 2009
    What the *^&%!? Seriously?! This thing had more twist and turns than...... than a....a thing that has a lot of twists and turns! Nothing made sense, up was down ,down was up...... The Night Evelyn Came Out Of The Grave was an abomination!

    Oh and what the hell? The ending? App...( read more)arently a swindler is more evil than a man who picks up prositutes and tortures them in his own private chamber?!
  • June 28, 2009
    Cheesy and very badly acted Italian horror film from 1971. Exceptionally poor score, bad camerAwork and a stupid plot. Cheap and uninteresting.
  • September 10, 2008
    Some Spoilers Here***********************************************************Alan (Anthony Steffen), an English multi-millionaire with a few screws loose (thanks to his first wife's infidelity and untimely death during childbirth), entices sexy, red-headed women to his castle, of...( read more)fering them bundles of cash to stay the weekend. Once back at his ancestral pile, he gets them nekkid, proceeds to flog them with a bull-whip, and then kills them.

    But when he meets blonde hottie Gladys (Marina Malfatti) and falls for her ample charms, he decides to give up his murderous ways and get married. Their wedded bliss is short-lived, however, thanks to Alan's iffy mental state, which becomes increasingly fragile when his dead wife Evelyn starts to appear outside his window and a spate of gruesome murders occur within the castle grounds.

    So let's recap: a groovy 70s Euro-horror with loads of tasty women in various states of undress; spooky Gothic retreats and misty graveyards; a sadistic rich psycho with a penchant for drop-dead gorgeous babes with cracking bods; several vicious murders (including a great bit where one victim has her head bashed in with a rock and her entrails eaten by foxes). Normally, a checklist like that would guarantee me a good time?so why did I find 'The Night Evelyn Came Out Of Her Grave' so dull? Well, for starters, the plot is way too convoluted: there are red herrings, crazy plot developments, and suspects galore, and it all becomes a bit too much. By the ridiculous ending?in which we discover that, all along, several people have been plotting to get their greedy paws on Alan's wealth, and that our red-head killing nut-job is actually supposed to be the hero of the movie?my head was hurting too much to care. Secondly, Emilio Maraglia's direction is pretty torpid. Stylish, yes; but as slow as molasses at times.

    And then there's the bits that are just too damn silly, possibly even for a giallo: the death by poisonous snake bite (surely one of the most bizarre choices of weapon ever); Alan's Aunt Agatha, an old crippled relative who is played by a pretty young woman; the hiring of a group of identical curly headed blondes as maids; the poor attempt at convincing the audience that the film is set in England (mentioning 'pounds' and hiring a crap police uniform for one of the extras is not enough); and then, of course, there is the unlikelihood of finding a bag of sulphuric acid laying next to a swimming pool...

    'The Night Evelyn Came Out Of Her Grave' isn't a total waste of time, but there are much better giallo's out there. Watch this one if you're a fan of the genre and you've already seen the best?but don't expect too much.
  • July 2, 2008
    this is such a gd movie i saw it yesterday and it was a gd movie
  • May 17, 2008
    There is absolutley no reason for any human being to ever see this movie. This is the only movie I've almost walked out of. I doesn't deserve half of a star!!!
  • March 27, 2008
    This one started out promising, with an English Lord abducting and torturing nubile redheads in his secret dungeon, but then quickly fizzled out. I didn't much care for the tired mystery with the double-crosses at the end. Seen it before, and seen it done better.

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  • csbuttertoast
    May 31, 2008
    If you like giallo's you still shouldn't watch this. The long tiring mystery isn't good and takes the intrest factor right away from this piece of crap. There's a good reason for why you can't find this anywhere. It just sucks. The death scenes were highly disappointing. The cover doesn't even look good. If you want a good horror movie that you probably never heard of, watch Dead-Alive (Braindead in other countries). If you see this movie on a shelf, put it in an oil barrel and set the barrel on fire.

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