The Bride Wore Blood: A Contemporary Western

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The Bride Wore Blood: A Contemporary Western
Starring: Christy Sullivan , Travis Shepherd , Shane Simmons , and Justin Marxen
Director: Scott Beck , and Bryan Woods
Manufacturer: Bluebox Limited
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ASIN: B000PUAZG4
Release Date: 2007-04-24

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DVD features include:
- PBS Interview featuring filmmakers Scott Beck, Bryan Woods, and composer Scott Morschhauser
- Making the Music: The scoring process
- The Bride Recut: Watch the film in sequence
- Feature-length video commentary with actors Justin Marxen, Travis Shepherd, and Shane Simmons
- Score & Stills: A look behind the scenes
- Premiere Night featurette
- And more!

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A Witch with a different twist!

Mark of the Witch/Brides Wore Blood
Starring: Mark of the Witch , and Brides Wore Blood
Manufacturer: Image Entertainment
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ASIN: B0007LXOZU
Release Date: 2005-04-05

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A triple treat of terror! It's total psychedelic madness as college students toy recklessly with the occult and ressurect an ancient crone bearing the MARK OF THE WITCH; soon she's back in the swing of things by inhabiting the body of a hot young co-ed and uses her womanly wiles to torment the descendents of her tormenters (and their pets).

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A Witch with a different twist! .......2006-12-17

Marie Santell gives an outstanding performance as the "Witch". She should have played both female roles. Worth purchasing just to view her opening scene.

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Something old, nothing new, and something bloody
Tedium in the Haunted House
NOT A BAD HORROR CHILLER FOR LATE NIGHT VIEWING!

Brides Wore Blood
Starring: Jan Sherman , Bob Letizia , Dolores Heiser , Rita Ballard , and Chuck Faulkner (III)
Director: Bob Favorite
Manufacturer: Retro Media
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scenery.......2007-09-08

While I admit this movie lacks something in continuity and execution, I have watched it over and over. It was filmed on my college campus and several of the actors were from the college - even the dean made a brief appearance. Definitely gives us the giggles.

Something old, nothing new, and something bloody.......2004-01-28

One doesn't normally associate Florida with vampirism, yet director Robert Favorite's 1972 film The Brides Wore Blood, an interesting but unfulfilling little vampire flick, comes to us directly from the Sunshine State, a state whose very name does not bode well for vampires and their kind. This film doesn't do much for vampires either. There was potential here, and I believe the film has something of a minor cult following, but there are far too many things left dangling in the end to suit my tastes - and there is not enough blood to help make up for any of these shortcomings.

Our story revolves around the ancient curse on the house of Delorca. Apparently, every son of somebody or other eventually turns into a vampire and must pass the curse on to his own son. The current pre-vampire's uncle sets out to break the curse once and for all, calling upon the help of a psychic. The master plan is to invite four girls to the mansion and do something with them - the details of the plan never really surface, especially since things get out of hand for the uncle pretty quickly. All I know is that the plan originally involved injecting something with a great big needle in at least one of the girls - this particular scene is one of the longest and most realistic needle insertion scenes I've ever seen. But I digress. How do you get four attractive young ladies to visit your creepy mansion? That's easy - just have your weird, hunchbacked, mute servant accost them on the street and thrust invitations into their hands. As I said, things go awry, a few vampire-like things take place, there are a few scenes of satisfying blood loss, the questionable motives of a couple of characters are never even examined, and the film eventually ends.

The opening scene is the most problematic of all, as it introduces us to a talent-deprived pair of lovers who discover a journal and begin reading the story which the movie itself expounds upon. We're never reunited with this original couple, and what would otherwise have been a fairly effective ending just does not work based on the context of the earlier presentation. Besides that, my favorite character obviously went home halfway through the shoot and nobody noticed, as she just disappeared off the cinematic map. Vampire fans also won't get many bangs for their bucks, as the whole vampirism issue seems incidental to the story. And those fangs - never in my life have I seen more ridiculous-looking vampire fangs than what I saw here. You couldn't get juice from a peeled orange with these tiny little things. I won't call this a bad movie, though. It's nothing more than a horror film that doesn't really live up to its potential.

Tedium in the Haunted House.......2002-06-25

Intentionally or otherwise, The Brides Wore Black comes across as a faux Euro-Shock film, a story that even Jess Franco or Jean Rollin might have rejected as being too feeble to consider. The movie begins with a framing sequence, evidently set in the then-contemporary period of the early 1970s, judging by the hairstyles, fashions, and dialogue ("Far out!"). If I have followed the internal chronology correctly, the extended flashback, containing the main body of the film, has to take place 20 or more years earlier--and yet, everyone still looks and sounds like a refugee from the tag-end of the Counter-Culture.

The story itself has something to do with a family curse that turns the first-born son of every generation into a vampire. The patriarch of the family, acting on advice from a local psychic and occult expert, plans a magical ritual to lift the curse. This evidently requires him to trap four beautiful women and use them to fulfill various parts of the ritual. There's also a stray vampire roaming through the ancestral manor, and when the patriarch's spell-casting goes awry, a fuzzy-faced demon is unleashed as well. The resulting action is confusing, unconvincing, and, in my case, somnolence-inducing.

There are a few "We're almost going to show you some female nudity" scenes, and one missed opportunity for a lesbian sequence that might have served to (briefly) dissipate the otherwise unrelieved tedium. There's just not much here to recommend to even the most fanatical horror buff.

NOT A BAD HORROR CHILLER FOR LATE NIGHT VIEWING!.......2002-05-18

I have always liked this Florida made cheapie about vampires in an old mansion. The acting isn't bad and anyone who likes irony will love the end of this baby. The disc is hosted by Son of Ghoul, and that is a major plus in itself. Horror fans and fans of bad cinema should get this disc.

The Brides (2 pack) The Bride And The Beast/The Brides Wore Blood

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The Brides (2 pack) The Bride And The Beast/The Brides Wore Blood

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ASIN: B000FEA02O

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The Bride and the Beast: Wedded bliss for a young couple (Lance Fuller and Charlotte Austin) is marred slightly by the bride's discovery of her husband's pet gorilla, for which she begins to develop an unnatural attraction; her husband's understandable jealousy leads him to destroy the ape. Hypnotic past-life regression leads Austin to the conclusion that she was actually a gorilla herself in a previous existence, which explains her obsession... sort of. The pair decide to get away from it all, journeying through some tedious stock footage to the jungles of Africa for a hunting safari, where yet another chest-pounding primate (besides Fuller, that is) has been waiting for just such a golden opportunity to have his way with the young lady. If this has the feel of an Ed Wood sub-classic, that's because it is at least by way of the screenplay. This may serve to explain the array of chic angora sweaters sported by Austin and the abundance of incongruous stock footage. The Brides Wore Blood: Four brides are murdered on their wedding nights. The culprit is a vampire, who thrives on virgin blood. One of the girls comes back to life, only to marry our blood-sucking "hero." Now we have two vampires to contend with. It's in color, it's 86 minutes, and it's all been done before-sometimes better, sometimes worse.

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