Queens of Evil
Written by Joe D on November 8th, 2023
Toniono Cervi’s Queens of Evil starring Ray Lovelock is a crazy cool take on a Fairy Tale .
Kind of like a hippie Hansel and Gretel setup with sex instead of gingerbread and early 70’s Italian set design. Great camera work by Enrico Lucidi (OK maybe a few zooms too many but it was 1970!) and an incredible score by Angelo Francesco Lavagnino! Super cool, demonic chanting, jazz harpsichords and I think Edda del Orso doing her demented child voice, ala Morricone’s scores for Argento. A terrific score! Ray Lovelock sings the title song which he wrote as well. The acting is all good. Ida Galli, Slvia Monti, and Haydee Politoff are the three witches of the title and they deliver a combination of weirdness, sexiness, evil, violence, and Italian style, check out the wigs these three evil chicks wear if you want to have your mind blown. It has so many artistic touches, including a proliferation of red flowers on a grave, for what reason? Who can say.
A surreal dream sequence, a house in the middle of the woods, a spooky castle. It’s like Rosemary’s Baby on Acid. Just check it out for yourself, Go to You tube and look up Ray Lovelock films and you’ll find it. I can’t post it here for some reason. Unfortunately it’s dubbed in English I would have preferred it in Italian but what can you do it’s free.
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Incredidbly cool film. Some funky interiors and costuming. Was first alerted to this one back in the day by Johnny from Lovelockandload, and got to see it on the bootleg that was being shared at the time. Since picked up a lovely copy on blu from, I think, Mondo Macabro. As an aside, noticed Ray Lovelock once again managed to shoehorn his motorcycle into his film. And observation I also made to Mrs M last week while watching The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue.