De Cinema x MoMu x EUROPALIA: La novia ensangrentada

Following the audiovisual installation RESOLUCIÓN: On lifetime decisions in Spanish cinema, De Cinema and EUROPALIA present a film cycle of the same name, featuring seven remarkable films from Spain, the guest country of EUROPALIA 2025. Each film revolves around a single colour. Each colour reveals something about womanhood and the era in which the film was made. Purple is the color of power and rebellion. Traditionally associated with feminism, it is often used in the Spanish fantaterror genre to depict witches, vampires, and untamable female figures who challenge the established order.

Susan is a newlywed who travels on her honeymoon to a lonely mansion. She feels terrified at the consummation of the marriage. Susan begins to obsess over the ghost of Mircala, a woman who murdered her husband two centuries earlier on her wedding night.

A cult classic par excellence that, alongside Vampires (Jess Franco, 1971) and Ceremonia sangrienta (Jorge Grau, 1973) is present in the video installation RESOLUCIÓN: On lifetime decisions in Spanish cinema, form part of the fantaterror subgenre, a genre once scorned but gaining status over the years for its great capacity for subversion, not only political but also sexual and erotic. In all films of the genre, protagonists, ghosts, goddesses, vampires, and heroines, wear purples and violets, not coincidentally the same colours chosen by the suffragist movement in the 19th century.