The Blood Spattered Bride (1972) on Netflix
Susan and her husband arrive at his family mansion, where one ancestor's portrait has its face cut away. Nightmares plague her, and she keeps sighting a woman from their hotel.
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Susan and her new husband leave their wedding for a honeymoon, but when she is briefly alone in their hotel room she imagines a stranger bursting from the closet and assaulting her, and she insists they go. At his family's old mansion, she notices portraits of male ancestors with no wives beside them; the servants' daughter says the wives' paintings are kept in the cellar, and one has the face cut out. Her husband explains that the woman in it is Mircala Karstein, an ancestor who two hundred years earlier killed her husband on their wedding night. Susan dreams of a woman she has seen on the property, wakes to a dagger beneath her pillow, and grows distant from her husband, who calls a doctor to find out what is wrong with her.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Blood Spattered Bride (1972)
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- The Blood Spattered Bride was advertised in the US with a trailer for a double feature pairing it with the 1974 horror film I Dismember Mama; the trailer was filmed as a mock news report about an audience member who went insane watching the two films.
- The Blood Spattered Bride reached cult film status for mixing horror and vampirism with a rejection of fascism and progressive ideas about gender and sexuality.
