The Blood Spattered Bride(1972) Movie Review

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The Blood Spattered Bride is a 1972 horror movie directed by Vicente Aranda and starring Simon Andreu and Maribel Martin.

A woman called Susan(Martin) is newly married and she has an awful vision of someone trying to hurt her at a hotel. When they arrive home, Susan meets her husbands(Andreu) staff and a woman called Carol who is the daughter of one of the servants. Susan spots a woman in the woods near the house. She talks to Carol and Carol tells her that there are portraits of women in the cellar. Susan sees a portrait of a woman called Mircala(Alexandra Bastedo). Her husband tells her about Mircala. She killed her husband on the wedding night. They go to her tomb and Susan sees her. She gives Susan a dagger and she bites her neck. Susan screams. Her husband doesn't see anything. Carol tells them she put a dagger under Susan's pillow. She tells them that she got it from a lady in the woods.  Susan wants to leave.

Mircala comes to Susan at night. She shows her where her husband hid the dagger. She wants Susan to murder her husband. Susan has a vision where she kills her husband with Mircala. It seems to be a dream. The doctor comes to see her. He gives her injection to help her. He tells her husband that she is thinking about myths and legends and she shouldn't be. The dagger is hidden in a clock. The husband thinks Carol hid it. She denies it. The husband buries the dagger on the beach. He sees a woman buried in the sand. She is naked. He brings her home.

The woman meets Susan. She says that her name is Carmila. Susan and Carmila have a connection. Susan begins to act strangely. The husband wants to know what is going on. Susan digs up the dagger and she cuts herself. The doctor is called again and the husband hides the dagger and locks it up. He takes the key with him. The doctor recommends that Susan should see a psychiatrist. The husband tells him about Mircala. The groundskeeper tells the doctor that he saw Susan in the woods with Mircala. Susan slips away at night. The doctor follows. He sees the two women. Mircala drinks Susan's blood. She is turning Susan against her husband. The doctor informs the husband. He sees it for himself.  He sees that Carmila is a vampire. She is using Carol to get her things she needs.

Susan tries to get the dagger without the key. She breaks open the drawer where it is and she grabs it. She kills the doctor. Her husband spots her and Mircala dragging the body away. Mircala orders Susan to kill her husband. He runs away and gets to his car and speeds off. Mircala becomes caught in a trap in the woods. Susan kills the gardener. The husband gets a gun and goes after them. He finds them in a coffin and he shoots holes in it. Carol arrives. She is also a vampire. She tells him that the two women will return. He shoots her too. The film ends with a newpaper headline about a a man who cut out the hearts of three women so it seems to hint that he was found guilty of murdering them. 

This was an ususual film with some good scenes. I enjoyed it overall and I would recommend it for fans of vampire movies. I will give it a 5/10.

Fangs of the Living Dead(1969)Movie Review

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Fangs of the Living Dead a.k.a.Malenka is a 1969 horror film directed by Amando de Ossorio and starring Anita Ekberg.

The films begins with a man called Dr. Luciani who received a call from his fiance, Sylvia(Ekberg). She tells him that she has inherited a castle and a title of Countess. She has to go to the place to sign papers. She goes to the local inn and the locals in there are startled when she tells them that she is going to be staying at the castle. A local person tells her that Count Walbrooke is expecting her. He is her uncle. She meets him and she looks around the castle. Sylvia is visited by a servant, Blinka(Adriana Ambesi) who seems to be about to bite her when the count appears and he is really angry. He takes her away and whips her.

Sylvia realises that Blinka is a vampire. She wants to leave but the Count doesn't want her to. A relative of Sylvia's was called Malenka and she was burned at the stake for being a witch. Walbrooke tells her that she must never marry. He tells her that Malenka created vampires. He informs her that he is Malenka's husband and he is undead. He tells her of some family curse which means she has to stay at the castle and can't marry. Sylvia breaks off her engagement to Dr. Luciani. Luciani and his firend Max go to the castle to see her. She won't see them. The locals are superstitious. They know that something dodgy is going on. The Count is snacking on some of the local ladies. He wants to dine on Sylvia next.

The Count tells her to drink his blood. Syvlia rescues Blinka from the dungeon. Blinka tells her that there is a tunnel . She enters it but gets caught by a girl vampire called Berta.She runs but the vamp lady is on her heels. Sylvia goes to the inn where Luciani and Max are. She tells them about Berta.They talk to the local doctor about it and he tells them to get a sharp wooden stake and stake the vamps with it.The doctor, Luciani, Max go to Bertha's grave. The Count sends one of his henchmen to get Sylvia. Berta rises from her grave. The doctor tries to get her but she runs off. Sylvia is kidnapped and brought back to the castle.

Luciani talks to the Count. He gets knocked out by one of his sidekicks. The doctor and Max see Blinka. The Count tells Luciani that he has a plan. He is going to get Sylvia declared insane because he wants the castle for himself. Blinka warns Sylvia that the vampire thing is all a lie. Luciani kills the Count and he burns. A portrait of Malenka burns too. 

This is a film that is very light on plot. It is not bad in parts and I did like the ending. This is made by the same guy who directed Tombs of the Blind Dead, which is why I watched it. It is a fun Spanish movie and worth a look if you enjoy Euro horror. I will give it a 5/10.