- Newlywed Susan is haunted by visions of Mircalla Karnstein, a centuries-old bride who murdered her husband on their wedding night.
- A young husband's sexual fantasies frighten his new wife and cause her to seek advice from Carmilla, a descendent of Mircalla de Karnstein. Carmilla seduces the young bride and forces her to commit gory acts of mutilation.—Mysty <rharvey@flash.net>
- After getting married with her husband, Susan travels with him to his isolated manor. The sexual drive of the husband is intense, and Susan feels revulsion towards his sexual games and perversions. Susan notes that there are only paintings of his male ancestors and none of their wives and she learns that thir pictures are kept in the basement. When she sees the painting of Mircalla Karstein, a.k.a. Carmilla, without her face, her husband tells that Carmilla killed her husband during their honeymoon. During the night, Susan has dreadful nightmares about Carmilla. When Susan's husband finds a naked woman buried on the beach, he brings her home and finds that she is Carmilla. Susan is seduced by the woman and they have a lesbian relationship. Meanwhile her husband realizes that his life is in danger and Carmilla is a vampire.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Still wearing her bridal gown, newlywed Susan arrives at the secluded ancestral mansion of her suave but cryptic husband to spend their honeymoon, utterly unaware that his family is hiding a dark secret. Before long, strange late-night dreams and blood-curdling hallucinations start to plague unsuspecting Susan, who, unable to resist the eerie allure of an ethereal female visitor, finds herself embroiled in a centuries-old conspiracy of blood and murder. More and more, the couple's happiness gives way to sheer terror, as the mysterious, ghastly entity latches on hapless Susan, unwilling to let go. Has anyone ever escaped from the horrible Blood Castle?—Nick Riganas
- Susan (Maribel Martin), a newly married young woman still wearing her bridal gown, leaves on honeymoon with her new husband (Simon Andreu) and eventually arrives at a hotel. Another woman seems to be stalking the couple from her position in a nearby car and when Susan is left alone in the room for just a few moments, she has a violent fantasy of a strange man leaping out of the closet and raping her. After her husband returns, she insists on leaving, which they do.
The couple arrives at a house where the husband apparently grew up where they will live full time. Susan sees the woman from the hotel in the woods on the property but she does not tell her husband. Susan notices in the house that there are paintings up of male ancestors, but none of the wives. She is told by the servants' daughter that the wives' paintings are in the cellar. Susan notices that one of the paintings of the wives has the face cut out of it. Susan's husband tells her that the woman in the painting is named Mircalla Karnstein (Alexandra Bastedo), one of his ancestors, who 200 years before murdered her husband on their wedding night because he supposedly made her commit unspeakable acts.
Susan has violent dreams involving the mysterious woman she has been seeing. She wakes up and finds a dagger under her pillow. Susan starts to become detached from her husband. The husband calls on a doctor (Dean Selmier) to figure out why she is having all of these dreams and what is wrong with her. Soon Mircalla is invading Susan's dreams, persuading her to use a mysterious dagger, which keeps reappearing no matter where it is hidden, to butcher Susan's husband as Mircalla did hers.
One day while strolling out on the beach, the husband discovers a naked woman buried in the sand; only her snorkel provides air. He digs her out and takes her home, where she reveals herself to be Carmilla. Susan falls under the spell of Carmilla, a vampire who seduces her and drinks her blood. The husband finally catches on that Carmilla is really his ancestor Mircalla Karnstein and that his life is in danger. The repressed Susan's desires are awakened in the intense lesbian love affair and she embarks on a spree of bloody mayhem. They kill the doctor, the guardian of the property, and they try to kill the husband, too, but he kills them while the two women are resting in their coffins as vampires.
After this happens, the servant's daughter arrives, and reveals that she was bitten too; she then kneels and allows him to shoot her once in the head. He returns to the coffin with a dagger and the scene cuts to a newspaper column declaring 'Man cuts out the hearts of three women', suggesting that the husband was found and arrested for the three murders.
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By what name was The Blood Spattered Bride (1972) officially released in India in English?
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