Luciana Paluzzi stars as a beautiful but faithless woman named Madalena who, along with her lover Arno Lunt(played by Kevin Hagen) have murdered her husband, and after dipping the body in acid, try to sell the skeleton to a local university, but the skeleton appears cursed, and always comes back to them. When the Academy President(played by Jack Weston) develops interest in Madalena, it looks like there will be two skeletons to now get rid of, though an ironic crisscrossed double-cross will undo all plans... Good premise wasted in dull episode that goes nowhere, further hurt by the miscasting of both Weston & Hagen, though there is a bit of atmosphere.
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"Funny how that skeleton keeps coming back".
classicsoncall9 March 2012
Warning: Spoilers
Well I wouldn't go so far as to say this was one of the worst of the Thriller episodes as another poster has offered. In fact I found it rather eerie the way the corpses, or rather the skeletons, kept piling up. However there was that moment when Arno Lunt (Kevin Hagen) opened the closet door to find the remains of Henri standing up when he should have been sitting, and he theorized that the door jammed it's knee joints forcing it to spring upright! I bet you couldn't duplicate that feat in a hundred years.
Now I thought I'd never seen Lucianna Paluzzi before; to my mind she was quite the Italian dish. There's a rather racy photo of her on her character page here on the IMDb that's worth the extra minute to take a look before you finish reading this. Now that I've done the same thing and checked her other film credits, I find that I HAVE seen her in "Muscle Beach Party", getting kissed by Frankie Avalon and making Annette Funicello jealous. Oh, and just for the record, this story is the better of the two.
I guess the justice of the story here is that everyone with larceny in their heart eventually got what they deserved. First Maurice Reynard (Jack Weston), and then the scheming Madalena (Paluzzi). But the irony of the finale was presented with the fate of Arno Lunt, not so innocent himself, who wound up murdered by a dead woman.
Now I thought I'd never seen Lucianna Paluzzi before; to my mind she was quite the Italian dish. There's a rather racy photo of her on her character page here on the IMDb that's worth the extra minute to take a look before you finish reading this. Now that I've done the same thing and checked her other film credits, I find that I HAVE seen her in "Muscle Beach Party", getting kissed by Frankie Avalon and making Annette Funicello jealous. Oh, and just for the record, this story is the better of the two.
I guess the justice of the story here is that everyone with larceny in their heart eventually got what they deserved. First Maurice Reynard (Jack Weston), and then the scheming Madalena (Paluzzi). But the irony of the finale was presented with the fate of Arno Lunt, not so innocent himself, who wound up murdered by a dead woman.
Weak. Very, very weak
planktonrules8 April 2014
There really isn't a lot I liked about "Flowers of Evil". It was an exceptionally weak episode with a ridiculous plot and a very, very long and talky ending.
When the show begins, a woman is staring at a skeleton and it begins screaming at her--at which point she beats the crap out of the skeleton to try to shut it up! It turns out that the skeleton is her missing husband and she and her lover have been hiding him in plain sight! They sold the skeleton to med students but they returned it because of the screaming!
A bit later, one of the professors notices the similarities between this skeleton and the missing husband. Both had arm injuries and he becomes suspicious--so she murders him. Then, she plans on killing her lover to get rid of loose ends. However, the boyfriend has other plans.
While this plot may not sound that bad, it all took so long to work itself out--and folks just kept talking and talking. Additionally, the screaming skeleton angle was silly--as was Jack Weston's ridiculous skin-head wig--with its obvious seams! Weak and not especially enjoyable.
When the show begins, a woman is staring at a skeleton and it begins screaming at her--at which point she beats the crap out of the skeleton to try to shut it up! It turns out that the skeleton is her missing husband and she and her lover have been hiding him in plain sight! They sold the skeleton to med students but they returned it because of the screaming!
A bit later, one of the professors notices the similarities between this skeleton and the missing husband. Both had arm injuries and he becomes suspicious--so she murders him. Then, she plans on killing her lover to get rid of loose ends. However, the boyfriend has other plans.
While this plot may not sound that bad, it all took so long to work itself out--and folks just kept talking and talking. Additionally, the screaming skeleton angle was silly--as was Jack Weston's ridiculous skin-head wig--with its obvious seams! Weak and not especially enjoyable.
Luciana Paluzzi : No bones about it
kevinolzak17 May 2009
"Flowers of Evil" is a rather weak latter entry, whose sole interest is provided by red-headed Italian beauty Luciana Paluzzi, who, like Ursula Andress before her ("La Strega"), would graduate to James Bond before the decade was over. Set in an academy for dead bodies in 19th-century France, Jack Weston (previously seen in "The Cheaters") plays the aging rector in love with the heartless Paluzzi, beginning to suspect that she may have murdered her long missing husband because his skeleton keeps turning up to haunt her. She starts plotting to eliminate him with the aid of her penniless lover (Kevin Hagen, previously seen in "The Fingers of Fear"), while also courting a marriage minded suitor of great wealth who has installed a telephone in her bedroom. Director John Brahm cannot do much with this thuddingly dull script, noted as perhaps the worst of all 67 episodes, a miscast Jack Weston perfectly unctuous, Kevin Hagen simply a bore. Actor Vladimir Sokoloff, previously seen in "The Terror in Teakwood," had already died a month before this episode's broadcast.
Let's See...How Can I Wrap This Up? I Don't Know
Hitchcoc10 December 2016
Warning: Spoilers
I read a few posts. Because I was intrigued by what was going on, I thought, "How can it be so bad." It seems the writers painted themselves into a corner. The two who seemed to love each other turned on each other. Just when things could get better, we find she is a two timer. And those skeletons. What do they have to do with anything. Jack Weston gets killed and for what? He can only speculate. Arno is the doctor from "Little House on the Prairie." I always found him incredibly boring. This predates the Ingalls family presentation, but he was dull back then. There are so many convoluted events here that have no connection. Visually, it is interesting to see those two stupid skeletons sitting on a bench staring at Arno. The final scene is awful.
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