The Blood Spattered Bride
The Blood Spattered Bride is a 1972 film from Spain, directed by Vicente Aranda, running 100 minutes. reelscum files it under euro-gothic and fantaterror.
- Year
- 1972 · 1970s films
- Country
- Spain
- Runtime
- 100 min
- Director
- Vicente Aranda
- Updated
- 29 Oct 2026
- Obscurity
- cult (39/100)
- Also known as
- Blood Castle · Bloody Fiancée · Till Death Do Us Part · The Blood Splattered Bride
Defined in the glossary: Euro-gothic, Fantaterror
Spanish Carmilla adaptation with an unusually pointed anger about marriage.
A Spanish adaptation of the Carmilla story with an unusually pointed anger about marriage running underneath the vampirism. A young bride, disturbed by her new husband's expectations, falls under the influence of a mysterious woman who rises from the beach, and the film reads the lesbian-vampire formula as a revolt against patriarchy.
Vicente Aranda gives it real style and a genuine argument, and the imagery, the woman buried in the sand but for her snorkel, the bloody marriage bed, is striking. It is smarter and angrier than the exploitation packaging suggests.
One of the more thematically loaded entries in the vampire cycle.
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Written about
- Fantaterror: the Spanish horror boom, 1968 to 1976
Two cuts of every film, one for the censor in Madrid and one for the drive-in. Democracy killed the trick in two years.
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