Análisis de la representación de la memoria en el cine fantástico del tardofranqusimo a la Transición

The objective of this article is to analyze the narrative features related to memory in fantasy cinema from late Francoism to the Transition. It aims to infer allegorical representations in these narratives of what was rendered invisible during the dictatorship established after the Civil War, as well as during the democratic Transition. To this end, a selection of diverse cinematic stories has been made, considering thematic and authorial variety, as well as their impact and relevance in the film discourse. The selection includes The Blood Spattered Bride (Vicente Aranda, 1972), Tombs of the Blind Dead (Amando de Ossorio, 1972), and Who Can Kill a Child? (Narciso Ibáñez Serrador, 1976). Among the findings, the article elaborates on the arbitrariness of the symbolic burden of the monster in Spanish fantasy horror, the representation of the trauma caused by the constraints of national-Catholic marriage, and the underlying intergenerational conflict during the Spanish Transition.