"The Night Evelyn Came Out Of The Grave" is, in some ways, a quintessential giallo - it has nearly everything the genre is known for: a colorful title, poor English dubbing, lots of nudity, a decidedly chauvinistic / anti-feminist bent, a ludicrously convoluted plot, a series of murders, and a pervading sense of trashiness (a corpse is fed to a cage full of foxes in this one!). However, "Evelyn" lacks the artiness with which the better films of the genre bring together all those elements; there is a reason why you are familiar with the names of Dario Argento or Lucio Fulci, but not with that of Emilio Miraglia. For the first hour or so, nothing really happens in the plot of this movie except two murders; the twist at the end almost redeems the film, but then there is another, and another: you begin to get the impression that Miraglia threw in everything but the kitchen sink, without really knowing what he's doing. *1/2 out of 4.
