The Blood Spattered Bride

The Blood Spattered Bride Spanish La Novia Ensangrentada translation The Bloody Bride is a 1972 Spanish horror film written and directed by Vicente Aranda, based on the vampire story, Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu. It stars Simn Andreu, Maribel Martn, 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 wellknown U.S. trailer advertising a double feature paired with the 1974 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.

The couple arrives at a house where the husband apparently grew up. This is where the rest of the story unfolds. The wife sees the woman from the hotel in the woods on the property but she does not tell her husband. Susan notices in the house that there are paintings up of male ancestors but none of the wives. She is told by the servants daughter that the wives paintings are in the cellar. Susan notices that one of the paintings of the wives has the face cut out of it. Susans husband tells her that the woman in the painting is named Mircalla Karnstein, one of his ancestors, who two hundred years before murdered her husband on their wedding night because he supposedly made her commit unspeakable acts. Susan has violent dreams involving the mysterious woman she has been seeing. She wakes up and finds a dagger under her pillow. Susan starts to become detached from her husband. The husband calls on a doctor to figure out why she is having all of these dreams and what is wrong with her. Soon Mircalla is invading Susans dreams, persuading her to use a mysterious dagger, which keeps reappearing no matter where it is hidden, to butcher Susans husband as Mircalla did hers.One day while strolling out on the beach, the husband discovers a naked woman buried in the sand only her snorkel provides air. He digs her out and takes her home, where she reveals herself to be Carmilla. Susan falls under the spell of Carmilla, a vampire who seduces her and drinks her blood. The husband finally catches on that Carmilla is really his ancestor Mircalla Karnstein and that his life is in danger. The repressed Susans desires are awakened in the intense lesbian love affair, and she embarks on a spree of bloody mayhem. They kill the doctor, the guardian of the property, and they try to kill the husband, too, but he kills them while the two women are resting in their coffins as vampires. After this happens, the servants daughter arrives, and reveals that she was bitten too she then kneels and al

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