A movie, which I am searching for...???!
Question: ...I have this great idea for a costume, which I want to put together for next Halloween, which I think would be really boss, and it's from a slasher movie, which I saw a long time ago. I think that it was Italian, and the only think that I remember distinctly, is that the killer was a woman, and she wore this skin-tight black body suit, with shiny black gloves and boots, a white ceramic mask (...it might have even been just white paint on her face, rather than a mask), painted eerily, and draped behind her, a satin blood-red cape. Just the sight of that was pretty chilling, which might be why I can't remember any of the rest of the movie. Can anyone tell me what I might have seen this in, please???
Answers: ...I have this great idea for a costume, which I want to put together for next Halloween, which I think would be really boss, and it's from a slasher movie, which I saw a long time ago. I think that it was Italian, and the only think that I remember distinctly, is that the killer was a woman, and she wore this skin-tight black body suit, with shiny black gloves and boots, a white ceramic mask (...it might have even been just white paint on her face, rather than a mask), painted eerily, and draped behind her, a satin blood-red cape. Just the sight of that was pretty chilling, which might be why I can't remember any of the rest of the movie. Can anyone tell me what I might have seen this in, please???
...oh, you're definitely thinking of an old '70's killer thriller, entitled "Red Queen Kills Seven Times", though you might have seen it, when it was re-issued during the slasher film era of the late '70's & early '80's, where it was alternately titled "Blood Feast" (...no relation to the Herschell Gordon Lewis film from 1963); in "Red Queen...", the killer dresses up for her kills, very much like what you described (...and I'm pretty sure that that WAS white paint, rather than a mask, on her face)...
I think Fright Film Fan has it mostly right.
"La Dama rossa uccide sette volte" (1972)
P.S. IMDB has a shot of the box cover with the outfit you described in the upper left corner of the page, so I am pretty sure this is it...