The Blood Spattered Bride
Director: Vicente Aranda
Genre: Horror, World cinema
Year: 1974
Country: Spain
Language: Spanish Language
Starring: Alexandra Bastedo, Simón Andreu, Maribel Martín
The Blood Spattered Bride (Spanish: La Novia Ensangrentada) 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 Simón Andreu, Maribel Martín, and Alexandra Bastedo. The film has reached cult status for its mix of horror, vampirism and seduction with lesbian overtones. A well known 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.
Susan, a newly married young woman still wearing her bridal gown, leaves on honeymoon with her new husband and eventually arrives at a hotel. Another woman seems to be stalking the couple from her position in a nearby car, and when Susan is left alone in the room for just a few moments, she has a violent fantasy of a strange man leaping out of the closet and raping her. When her husband returns she insists on leaving, and so they do.
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
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