Ceremonia sangrienta (1973)

Calificación de los usuarios:

5.9/10   

Director:

Jorge Grau

Escritores:

Sandro Continenza (writer)
Jorge Grau (screenplay)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

octubre 1974 (USA)

Género:

Horror

Frase comercial:

Schooled in Carnage and Blood She Butchered 610 Nubile Virgins!

Plot:

The ageing Countess discovers that the blood of a maid can temporarily restore her youth and great beauty...

Plot Keywords:

Blood | Countess | Nudity | Vampire | Virgin

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Maybe the best Spanish horror film until Alex de la Iglesia made The Day of the Beast

Reparto

Lucia Bosé	...	Erzsebet Bathory
Espartaco Santoni	...	Karl Ziemmer
Ewa Aulin	...	Marina Schneider
Ana Farra	...	Housekeeper
Silvano Tranquilli	...	Doctor
Lola Gaos	...	Carmilla
Enrique Vivó	...	Mayor
María Vico	...	Maria Plojovitz
Ángel Menéndez	...	Magistrate
Adolfo Thous	...	Judge
Ismael García Romen	...	Captain
Raquel Ortuño	...	Irina
María Dolores Tovar	...	Sandra (as Dolores Tovar)
Franca Grey	...	Nadja
Ghika	...	Inge

También conocida como:

Blood Castle (video title)
Bloody Ceremony
Countess Dracula
Le vergini cavalcano la morte (Italy)
The Bloody Countess
The Female Butcher
The Legend of Blood Castle

Duración:

102 min | Spain:92 min

País:

Spain | Italy

Idioma:

Español | Inglés

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Sonido:

Mono

Clasificación:

USA:R

Locaciones de Filmación:

Madrid, Spain

Compañía:

Luis Film

Conexiones de Película:

Apareció en Dusk to Dawn Drive-In Trash-o-Rama Show Vol. 3 (1996) (V)

Maybe the best Spanish horror film until Alex de la Iglesia made The Day of the Beast

The director of the film, Jorge Grau, is less known than other Spanish "fear maker" of his generation like Jesus Franco or Paul Nashy. But with only three films (this one and the excellent Pena de Muerte and No Profanar el Sueño de los Muertos) he proves an incredible ability to create disturbing and compelling horror films. Ceremonia Sangrienta is for my not only their masterpiece, is also the best try to do horror cinema in Spain as good as in other countries with longer tradition like United States, United Kindom or Italy. The story is fascinating. It propose a new point of view of the classic myth of the vampire, more realist than used to be in the moment that was made the film, and really visionary. Later horror masters like George A. Romero with Martin, Abel Ferrarra with The Addiction or John Carpenter with Vampires made similar treatments of the myth but we can't forget that Jorge Grau was the first. Visually the film is equally splendid. The photography of Fernando Arribas, present in a lot of Spanish horror films like La Cruz del Diablo, Horror Express or the recent Memorias del Ángel Caído, is simply extraordinary giving the film the appropriate colour and light. The cast is perfect, specially the sensual actress Lucia Bosé, but is the work of Jorge Grau behind the camera that makes this film so interesting. The tempo have not ups and downs and progress with the force of a train in the night, the mise in scene is classical and styish at same time, and I have not any doubt that Grau had known how to capture the essence of the vampirism in images.