I didn't see an ideal DVD of this movie. The one I saw came from Luminous, and was taken from a Greek video, dubbed in English with Greek subtitles. The picture is a bit on the dim and dirty side. The pre-credits sequence has a horizontal line running through it, and all throughout the movie skips frames. Additionally, the picture occasionally rolls. Lousy.
The title refers partly to a painting shown in the beginning of the movie, of a woman in black stabbing a woman in red. (It's a neat painting, anyone have a copy?) Two little girls fight over a doll, and one of them stabs and decapitates the doll! Their grandfather tells them a legend about the painting, which involves the "Red Queen" coming to life every 100 years to kill seven people.
One of the girls is apparently drowned by the other at some point early on as well - it cuts from her falling into water, to what looked like a doll like the one in the opening floating in the water. Some years later, the grandfather dies, and his granddaughters will be due an inheritance. Other people start dying too, and the description of the killer matches the red queen, as well as someone who should be dead.
I found the ending a bit confusing. A curse is mentioned, and I'm not sure it had been mentioned before (I think it is different than the Red Queen legend).
I enjoyed the movie even though the print was not ideal. Hopefully a better release of this will become available, in which case I'd like to give it another viewing.
The title refers partly to a painting shown in the beginning of the movie, of a woman in black stabbing a woman in red. (It's a neat painting, anyone have a copy?) Two little girls fight over a doll, and one of them stabs and decapitates the doll! Their grandfather tells them a legend about the painting, which involves the "Red Queen" coming to life every 100 years to kill seven people.
One of the girls is apparently drowned by the other at some point early on as well - it cuts from her falling into water, to what looked like a doll like the one in the opening floating in the water. Some years later, the grandfather dies, and his granddaughters will be due an inheritance. Other people start dying too, and the description of the killer matches the red queen, as well as someone who should be dead.
I found the ending a bit confusing. A curse is mentioned, and I'm not sure it had been mentioned before (I think it is different than the Red Queen legend).
I enjoyed the movie even though the print was not ideal. Hopefully a better release of this will become available, in which case I'd like to give it another viewing.