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Simon Andreu,
Maribel Martin,
Alexandra Bastedo,
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Vicente Aranda,
Vicente Aranda
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: Not Rated
: Anchor Bay
: Foreign, Horror, Vampires, Spain
: 101 min.
: English
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Vicente Aranda directed this erotic horror film, continuing themes which he had explored in the previous year's Exquisite Cadaver. Alexandra Bastedo stars as a lesbian vampire who woos frigid newlywed Maribel Martin away from her husband Simon Andreu on their honeymoon. Aranda fills the film with haunting imagery, gorgeously photographed by veteran cinematographer Fernando Arribas, and the story's sometimes illogical twists are compensated for with heavy, skillfully-crafted atmosphere. The American video print of this stylish vampire film is missing almost 20 minutes, so viewers are advised to seek out an uncut version. ~ Robert Firsching, All Movie Guide
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| Classic 70s vampire cinema.
by 1angryscot
October 25, 2009 - 6:31 PM PDT
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2 out of 2 members found this review helpful
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| This is without a doubt one of the best treatments of the Carmilla story ever filmed. The screenplay is intelligent in its delineation of the twin themes of patriarchy and lesbianism that are at the heart of LeFanu's original tale. The film is also well-acted. But the real trump card is Vicente Aranda's riveting direction. The Blood-Spattered Bride is considerably preferable to the pretentious and over-rated Daughters of Darkness, the latter which is less concerned with the vampire genre than it is with using it as an excuse for glossy, artsy (and sometimes impressive and genuinely artistic) visuals that have no organic connection to the subject matter. |
| Only the Title Inspired Kill Bill....
by BrodiesGirl
July 30, 2005 - 2:19 AM PDT
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1 out of 2 members found this review helpful
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I fully admit that I hunted down this film for the sake of learning about the films Tarantino used and stole from to create Kill Bill Vol. 1 & 2.
All I can say is if you want a movie filled with kung-fu coolness and intriguing drama, rent Lady Snowblood, another film Q stole from. (Snowblood is basically O-Ren Ishii's background story.)
If you want to watch a weird "horror" movie with creepy and bizarre lesbian under, over, and generally everywhere theme, then this is the movie for you. Weirdly mysogynistic, this movie continued to get more and more bizarre as time went on. It also became more and more ridiculous/stupid.
Yes, it's cheesy. But not in a good way. After an hour I wanted to turn it off, but continued to have hope that somehow it would get better.
It never did. Major disappointment. |
| Walking (a lot) and Talking (badly)
by talltale
July 22, 2004 - 8:03 AM PDT
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1 out of 2 members found this review helpful
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| Once in awhile, you stumble across a little gem from decades past that you are SO glad you found. THE BLOOD-SPLATTERED BRIDE will not be one of these. I rented it because the director Vicente Aranda went on to make some decent hi-toned but mostly sexy Spanish flix. This one is low-toned and sexy in that 70s way that undresses the gal completely but always keeps the guy's pants on. Its main claim to fame is how often the characters "walk." They walk here, they walk there. Oh, look--they're in the garden. Now they're in the study. Ohmigod--they're actually traversing a hallway! The visuals are not so hot either, and the dubbing's flubbed. The actresses are pretty, but it takes a full hour-and-a-half before a single person gets killed. Then EVERYONE gets it, fast and dirty, as the pacing goes from deadly to dumb, and you sit there, eyes glazed, saying, "I rented this movie. What was I thinking...?" As another member points out, there IS that single memorable scene in the sand. And the trailer on the dvd's "Extras" is funny, too (It features a guy--Ron Milke--with whom I attended drama school, so I'm particularly gratified to see that he found some work.) |
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