The Blind Dead
05-21-2007, 02:07 PM
"The good are those content to dream what the wicked in practice actually do."
Welcome to The Blood Spattered Bride, a film that opens with a quote from Plato! If that doesn’t indicate what director Vicente Aranda was aiming for (some intellectual high ground from the film’s genre comrades, maybe?) then I don’t know what will! The good news is he almost succeeds. With an interesting take on the demons we have to face during matrimony, via a surreal vampire movie.
The film is based on the novel ‘Carmilla’ by Sheridan Le Fanu and follows a husband (Simon Andreu) and his young, virginal bride Susan (Maribel Martin). As they check into a hotel to start their honeymoon Susan hallucinates that she is attacked and raped by what looks like her new husband with a tight over his head. Shaken, Susan informs her husband that she wishes to stay elsewhere, deciding on the husband’s country family home.
Once there the husband wastes no time in consummating their marriage, violently ripping her wedding gown, which echoes her hallucination back at the hotel. Gradually Susan finds herself repulsed by her husbands sexual appetite and fearful of his violent sexual impulse. When she starts to have visions of a beautiful and mysterious blonde...[READ MORE HERE] (http://www.joehorror.com/0000830.html)
Welcome to The Blood Spattered Bride, a film that opens with a quote from Plato! If that doesn’t indicate what director Vicente Aranda was aiming for (some intellectual high ground from the film’s genre comrades, maybe?) then I don’t know what will! The good news is he almost succeeds. With an interesting take on the demons we have to face during matrimony, via a surreal vampire movie.
The film is based on the novel ‘Carmilla’ by Sheridan Le Fanu and follows a husband (Simon Andreu) and his young, virginal bride Susan (Maribel Martin). As they check into a hotel to start their honeymoon Susan hallucinates that she is attacked and raped by what looks like her new husband with a tight over his head. Shaken, Susan informs her husband that she wishes to stay elsewhere, deciding on the husband’s country family home.
Once there the husband wastes no time in consummating their marriage, violently ripping her wedding gown, which echoes her hallucination back at the hotel. Gradually Susan finds herself repulsed by her husbands sexual appetite and fearful of his violent sexual impulse. When she starts to have visions of a beautiful and mysterious blonde...[READ MORE HERE] (http://www.joehorror.com/0000830.html)