Let's begin with the costumes: the brides of Christ wear outfits like blood-soaked bandages, with the most imminent red like a menstrual stain. Alucarda is draped in funerary black, while Justina and the other girls are more colorful. The doctor is also an imposing, gaunt blackclad figure. He is serious and somber, unlike the strange Roma-caricatures (in greens and other bright colors, typically). It's easy coding for the most part, but the nuns especially stand out. Those costumes suggest so much, from their medical allusions to their distinct evocation of femininity and the mixed symbolism of menses--blessing or curse, female empowerment or fertility, depending on who is reading or writing it.

Then there's the set design. The most notable ones…

A creepy Pan-looking hunchbacked mofo, blood sisters, demonic possession, lots of bloody floggings, hedonism, satanic chants, scorning the sacraments with perverse behavior, a disastrous symphony of screaming, and a batshit hell ending that can only be likened to a heavy metal brimstone version of Carrie. 

Almost a decade ago I accidentally stumbled into into the wild WTF world of Mondo Macabro releasing, with their red cases and beyond bizzaro selection of cinema’s wild side. Once I saw the previews trailers they would include with each disc hooo boy I knew I'd be spending a lot of money with Mondo. That's where I discovered several of my favorite movies, including Alucarda.

This movie definitely isn’t for everyone, besides being a slow burn…

The woman's body as the site of horror, a de-personalized vessel for a de-centralized force that always seems to possess the young female body as a way of actualizing itself beyond the invisible, the impalpable. Though revolving around its self-named lead, Alucarda acts unlike other "hysterical female" horror in that its locus is tied not to the body of a woman but the body of women within; moving back and forth, inhabiting different bodies, this becomes an undulating force that disembodies itself in multiple ways (possessing instead of exposing, disseminating instead of accumulating) to make itself both difficult to resist and impossible to escape. Of Francis Bacon: The Logic of Sensation: "In art, and in painting as in music, it…

Alternative title "Red is the warmest colour"
This is very much an Art House Horror film cause there is a lot of blood and screaming but obtuse dialogue and heavy on the visuals.
The story drops you immediately into a birthing scene in a mausoleum with a mother telling the deliverer to take the baby girl(Alucarda) to the convent for her protection fast forward 15 years when a 15 year old named Justine arrives at the same convent after loosing her folks. I don't want to get into too much of the story but this thing goes of the chain as nuns ware bloodstained white robes in dingy dark convents having sermons in a candlelit cavern. Blood pacts are made…