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The Blood Spattered Bride (1974)

Simón Andreu (Actor), Maribel Martín (Actor), Vicente Aranda (Director) | Rated: R | Format: DVD
3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews) |

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  • Actors: Simón Andreu, Maribel Martín, Alexandra Bastedo, Dean Selmier, Ángel Lombarte
  • Directors: Vicente Aranda
  • Writers: Vicente Aranda, Matthew Lewis, Sheridan Le Fanu
  • Producers: Jaime Fernández-Cid, José López Moreno
  • Format: Color, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
  • Language: English
  • Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Rated: R (Restricted)
  • Studio: Starz / Anchor Bay
  • DVD Release Date: May 23, 2000
  • Run Time: 82 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: 6305840016
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #269,374 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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Spanish cinema veteran Vicente Aranda, best known for such art-house fare as The Lovers and Libertarias, first hit the international scene in 1972 with this sexy vampire thriller. Simon Andreu is a young and inexperienced new bride whose violent nightmares are invaded by a mysterious woman in white. Her husband (Dean Selmier), who at first appears sensitive and consoling, has a tendency for rough lovemaking, and his practical jokes show a strange, sadistic streak. Andreu discovers a vandalized portrait of her husband's ancestor, Mircalla Karnstein, a young bride found a century ago lying next to her dead husband in a blood-soaked wedding dress. Mircalla's mysterious phantom soon emerges from Andreu's dreams and enters her world. This twist on Sheridan Le Fanu's story "Carmilla" (which also inspired Carl Dreyer's Vampyr and a host of erotic horror films in the 1970s) suggests that this vampire is less an agent of evil out to corrupt the innocent maiden than a physical manifestation of the maiden's own subconscious sexual fears and fantasies. The mysterious blood-spattered bride rises from her grave like an avenging devil. Her "official" entrance, buried naked on an empty beach and breathing through a snorkel, is one of the most memorable images in modern horror cinema. It seduces Andreu, too, unleashing her repressed psychosis in a bloody homicidal frenzy. Aranda's style is earthier than French or British vampire films, less a dream world than a world invaded by nightmares. It's handsome and accomplished--spooky, edgy, sexy, and startlingly violent. --Sean Axmaker

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14 of 17 people found the following review helpful
Format:VHS Tape
Don't get me wrong here...I like this film quite a bit and this new DVD from Anchor Bay looks great....but the movie just disappoints because it could have been so much more. First off, this new letterboxed DVD is the first time it's been released uncut in the USA...I think it's about 10 minutes longer than the old Gorgon Video release...and although some of that is just exposition, I do think there is some extra nudity and gore that had been previously edited out (but I'm guessing from memory). The movie has a cool serene feel to it, several really haunting moments, and a good share of blood and nudity...but the script just doesn't have much momentum....there's no suspense and no drive to the plot....it just unfolds slowly with really no where to go. After you've sat there for 101 minutes and the movie's over --- it's hard to remember anything about it! Just call it Euro-Fluff. So it's a mixed bag --- definitely worth a look for euro-fans or lesbo vamp fanatics -- but don't expect too much going in.
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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
an excellent Euro horror June 11, 2001
Format:DVD
I'll keep this quick and simple. If you like Euro Horror stuff from the late 60's and 70's than you can't go wrong this film. Although the title is much, much cooler than the film itself, it is still a good representation of Euro horror. Reminds me of Torso and Tourist Trap a little, just a little. Nonetheless, it's a great buy for your collection and the print rendered on this DVD is excellent!
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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
Aside from tombs of the Blind Dead/Return of the Blind Dead, there isn't much to choose from when it comes to horror from Spain. Blood Spattered Bride is one of the finest exports of the genre from Spain. It is a movie about revenge and pre-emptive revenge driven by the engines of rage, paranoia, male domination and female escape. Most of this movie achieves a dream-like sequence, and at times, stupor. There are never any boring moments, except for the love trysts in the first fifteen minutes of the film or so. My two favorite scenes are of Miralla's first appearance in our young bride, Andreu's, dream, and then of Mircalla's first corporeal manifestation . . . on a beach . . . naked . . . buried-and breathing through a snorkel! Aranda has succeeded in telling a very unsettling story about vampirism. By the end of the film, you will be so unsettled by the characters of Mircalla and Andreu that you really won't care whether there were vampires in the film in the first place, because you will have discovered far worse.
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
The "vampire" intimacy
The film is inspired by Le Fanu's story Carmila. Pretty much the same identical story: a castle, a curse. Read more
Published on June 28, 2009 by Bartok Kinski
Horrible movie
This has to be the most idiotic, boring piece of trashy horror I have ever seen.
Published on April 30, 2008 by dwieselq
just okay....
I get the point of the film, I really do. And I actually enjoyed the concept of it. But it was very slow moving, and the acting really jsut wasn't believable. Read more
Published on January 23, 2008 by Daniel J. Shatz
A CLASSIC of Fear
In tradition Spanish Horror movies. Not a ton of depth but enough action going on to keep you fully entertained.I really enjoyed this movie! Read more
Published on June 15, 2006 by whitewolf
Good looking and sexy, but not much depth
The Blood Spattered Bride is an easy film to enjoy aesthetically, but quite hard to appreciate plot-wise. Read more
Published on January 26, 2006 by A. Griffiths
brilliance
yeah well, i wanted to watch it because of the genre and boy was I pleased!yeah it was good, didn't really get much of the plot, or anything else for that matter, kept my eye out... Read more
Published on October 4, 2003
A sexy vampire, it is boring.
This is a one of Vampire film, which is not a brilliant and cruel horror work. However, it has a stable script and well-organized screen. Read more
Published on March 14, 2002 by "ninetwob"
Probably For EuroHorror Fans Only
This is a subtle and atmospheric version of Sheridan LeFanu's Carmilla, in which the director is far more interested in detailing the failing marriage of his two principles than in... Read more
Published on November 15, 2001 by J. L. Probert
incredibly boring Euro-horror
For every great movie Anchor Bay remasters and stuffs in a clamshell package, there's always a clunker like "The Blood Spattered Bride" to bring things down. Read more
Published on May 2, 2001 by man_invisible
Spanish Gothic
"The Blood Spattered Bride" is a pretty decent specimen of the European Gothic cinema. The story develops a bit slowly, but is handsomely mounted and photographed. Read more
Published on January 24, 2001
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