- 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-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
- Language: English
- Region: (US and Canada This DVD will probably NOT be viewable in other countries. Read more about DVD formats.)
- Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
- Number of discs: 1
- MPAA Rating:
- Studio: Hgv Video Production
- Release Date: Oct 1 2002
- Run Time: 82 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
- ASIN: 6305840016
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #84,607 in DVD (See Top 100 in DVD)
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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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brilliance
Oct 4 2003
Format:DVD
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 for a bit of the..you know...action
This is some fine Spanish horror.
Jun 3 2003
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.
A sexy vampire, it is boring.
Mar 14 2002
Format:DVD
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. Actually, it was not interesting, but it is a well-made horror film. I have no idea about the director of this film, I have never heard before, but it is worth to see. It has some specific scenes, which are erotic and sexy. If you like an erotic horror film, this film is good. Generally, it is nothing special, just using sexy vampire and pretty bride with lesbianism.
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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 Nov 15 2001 by J. L. Probert
an excellent Euro horror
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. Read more
Published on Jun 11 2001 by Rich Bradson
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 Jan 24 2001
Classic Euro-Horror!
This is a fine example of Euro-Horror. It's a bloody, feminist version of Alice in Wonderland. Don't expect too much action. This movie is slowmoving but fascinating!
Published on July 10 2000 by E. Wachholz
Stylish retake on a classic novel
When Carmilla first appeared in print the sexually repressed society of the day lapped this subject matter up greedily. Read more
Published on Jun 26 2000 by M. James
Could Use a Transfusion
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. Read more
Published on Jun 1 2000 by frankenberry
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