The Bride (2013)

Fantastic!

best movie i've ever seen.

It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

Unshakable, witty and deeply felt, the film will be paying emotional dividends for a long, long time.

There is a very Yin and Yang flow about this movie. It balances in it's GOOD parts (acting and writing in a few good scenes, the whole killing to retrieving the "something borrow, something blue",some really good shots and camera work) and it's BAD parts (Technically: the movie "shows" it's low low low budget. with it's Bad sounds mix, the almost amateurish editing, the video and audio effects are effective in parts but very low grade, TV like.) But overall I must say The Bride definitely tickled the senses of this Horror/Slasher fan.

A woman and her soon to be husband are kidnapped by a few guys and taken out to the woods where she is raped then both are killed. They make a mistake and bury them by a tree that is cursed by a bride who was raped and killed and has mysterious powers. Oops. The vengeful spirit jumps into her body springing her into taking revenge action.The film doesn't really go anywhere we haven't been but does almost seem like Avenged (2013) and of course borrows heavily from I Spit On Your Grave. I found it boring and just regurgitated themes. You don't really care about any of the characters.Leave this bride at the altar.

It's difficult to know quite what to make of this film; clearly it is a supernatural revenge fantasy, but the gratuitously brutal gang rape scene and the rhetoric of one of the killers appears to be aimed more at degrading a certain type of man than the victim. Whatever, on the eve of their wedding, the groom-to-be and the tragic heroine are given the run of an isolated house by a man who clearly has ulterior motives. The otherwise lucky guy is clearly a wealthy man, and it appears that he has been set up, the idea being to kidnap the bride and hold her to ransom. Unfortunately, the abduction goes terribly wrong, and he ends up being killed accidentally by one of the hired help, who appear to have only a double digit IQ between them. This is where it gets really nasty.Make of it what you will, but all criticism aside, it is a fairly original offering, though hopefully there will not be a sequel.

I must say this is definitely not an instant classic horror, nor is it bursting with originality. I did find the whole killing based on "something borrowed, something new ..." innovative and cool. But the rest is very much what you would expect from a low budget B Horror movie in matter of story, shallow characters, Quality of FX, or overall substance. If you watch horror movies as much as I do, you will find very similar elements from the overly used revenge horror recipe (See: The Crow, I Spit on your grave, The last house on the left, Eden Lake, etc.) As a woman I'm always up for watching any movie with a kick ass female lead; with the right budget for a proper production The Bride could've been a cool contender, but the limitation of a small budget, novice actors, and lack of great editors (The sound and colour correction needs work) The Bride was brought to her knees.