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“Look out BLUE UNDERGROUND - NOSHAME DVD has arrived”
- David DeCoteau, www.rapidheart.com
When I set out to review the double disc of Italian shockers THE NIGHT EVELYN CAME OUT OF THE GRAVE/RED QUEEN KILLS 7 TIMES from NoShame, I thought, ‘Oh god I hope this version doesn’t look like those crappy public domain discs that have been floating around for years.’ I sat there slack jawed watching these movies as if it were the very first time I saw them. Stunningly transferred from what looks like the original camera negatives, I was amazed at how terrific these gems are. The pristine Anamorphic Widescreen (2.35:1) transfers completely capture these gorgeously photographed movies, with style and cinematography that can be compared to Mario Bava’s output from around the same time. This box set is highly recommended for any collector’s DVD library.
TNECOOTG and RQK7T are essentially the same story. A murdered woman comes back from the grave to haunt her killers and take revenge - is it a haunting OR just some scheming blackmailing opportunist who knows the truth about what happened? Even the name of both revenging women is named Evelyn. Odd. It’s as if the producers had two writers take on the same story and both scripts turned out so good they shot both projects back to back ( in actuality these movies we’re shot back to back according to production/costume designer Lorenzo Baraldi in his lengthy interviews on the discs). Director Emilio P. Miraglia directs with sure fire energy and shameless explicitness.
You’ve never seen Sybil Danning look as hot as she does in RQK7T. Playing a bitchy model, she is not afraid to show her stellar breasts! Erica Blanc appears in TNECOOTG and as far as I’m concerned, steals the whole show. In my humble opinion, this woman was the most sexy and alluring actress working in euro-horror at the time when many of these shockers were produced. In a new and unpretentious interview taped exclusively for this disc, she still commands the same exotic and timeless beauty. In what has to be the most appropriate setting for an interview of this kind, she stares into a mirror and applies makeup preparing herself for a stage performance. She calls herself a “stage actress” now but any s
mart euro filmmaker should put this horror star to work. Mysterious, captivating with a wry sense of humor this lady needs to come back to the genre.
If there is any advice I could give NoShame it’s that the disc cover art is subtle and dare I say classy. I appreciate the upscale approach to marketing this wonderful double disc but I must have passed it on the video store shelf dozens of times before I discovered it. I like the eye popping graphics of similar genre DVD releases. That’s just my humble opinion.