Queens of Evil (1970) Tonino Cervi

Genre: Horror

Country: Italy| France| Director: Tonino Cervi

Aspect ratio: Widescreen 1.85:1 | Length: 90mn

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Our main character is David - a hippy travelling aimlessly on his motorcycle. After a strange encounter with a man who needs his tire changing, David rides on and soon comes across an apparently deserted house. He decides to spend the night in the shed and is surprised the next morning to be awoken by a beautiful young woman named Liv. Liv seems keen to get rid of David, but after her sisters catch sight of him; they ask him to stay and David soon discovers that he has bitten off more than he can chew...

The atmosphere is the key thing about this film. Director Tonino Cervi handles the film well and ensures that it's always mysterious. The locations used make the film feel isolated and claustrophobic and this adds well to the atmosphere. The film boasts a good cast, with the handsome Ray Lovelock fitting into the lead role well and convincing as a hippy. You'd expect some nice female talent too considering the plot here, and the film doesn't disappoint. All three of the leading ladies (Evelyn Stewart, Silvia Monti and Haydée Politoff) provide nice eye candy and also manage to create a foreboding chemistry between themselves and Ray Lovelock. 

LE REGINE is a more-than-partially successful blend of pop-art post-modernism and fairly standard erotic eurohorror, an intriguing mood piece helped along by its surreal atmosphere and a retro-cool bizarro musical score. Eerily dreamlike and spiked with hot sex and an attractive cast, this largely forgotten item deserves rediscovery and some degree of praise...while far from a perfect film, it is undeniably offbeat and rises above the standard for the bulk of sexy Eurotrash released in its day.

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