The Blood Spattered Bride (1972)

Original title

La novia ensangrentada

Directed by

Vicente Aranda

Genre

horror film, vampire film, thriller film

Country

Spain

Runtime

1h 40m

Rated

R

Rating

5.8 of 10 from 76 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A newly married woman travels to her husband's isolated family estate. There she meets a strange woman who may be a vampire, and her sanity begins to unravel.

atmosphericeroticunsettlingslow-burndreamlikebleaktensevisually lush

What happens

The Blood Spattered Bride (Spanish: La novia ensangrentada) is a 1972 Spanish horror film written and directed by Vicente Aranda, based on the 1872 vampire novella Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu. It stars Simón Andreu, Maribel Martín, and Alexandra Bastedo. The film attained cult film status for its mix of horror, vampirism, rejection of fascism, and progressive ideas on gender and sexuality. A well-known US trailer advertising a double feature of this film paired with the 1974 horror film I Dismember Mama was filmed in the style of a news report covering the "story" of an audience member who had gone insane while watching the films. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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