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The Red Queen Kills Seven Times
Why this pick
Matches its ornate early-1970s giallo mood: a black-gloved killer, a pattern of threatened women, lurid colour design and a steadily accumulating mystery.
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MOVIE1972 1h 32m ITA
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
A serial killer is on the loose, murdering certain women around the city. While travelling on a train on his honeymoon, Mario (Antonio Sabato) sees his wife brutally attacked aboard the train and after the killer gets away, the police accuse Mario of attacking his newlywed wife. Police decides to hide the fact that Giulia (Uschi Glas), Mario's wife is alive in order to protect her from the killer. Mario sets out to prove his innocence by attempting to solve the "Puzzle of the Silver Half Moons", which leads him to the hotel where he met his wife, a man name Frank Saunders, Christian Church's tour, a group of hippies and Frank's ex-mistress. The film contains some very violent murders, some shown from the point of view of the knife-wielding, black-gloved killer, as he stabs a woman in her bed, bashes in the head of a prostitute, strangles a female artist with a telephone cord, drowns a mental patient in her bathtub and even uses a power drill on one unfortunate victim. Mario must catch the real killer in order to prove his own innocence.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Marisa Mell
Anna Sartori & Maria Sartori
Rossella Falk
Elena Marchi
Aldo Barberito
Lt. Palumbo
Bruno Corazzari
Barrett
Franco Fantasia
Lt. Renzi
Camille Keaton
Hippie Girl on Couch (uncredited)
Uschi Glas
Giulia
Petra Schürmann
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