The Bride

A couple about to be married are victims of a home break-in. Kira (Henrietta Riddervold) puts up a good fight, but alas succumbs at "The Blood Tree" which was introduced in the opening. This California tree is cursed because a Native American bride was raped and killed here by Confederate soldiers. We then get a formula revenge film. Characters are not believable. Actors have trouble with their lines. Not as good as that zombie rape-revenge film (Amanda Adrienne- "Avenged" or "Savaged") Guide: F-word. Rape Nudity (Henrietta Riddervold)

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.

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.

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.

First of all, I watched this On Demand. It was "advertised" as being "in Spanish (sub-titled"). I thought since this might be a movie from Mexico--and I did like "Mexico Barbosa," I thought what the heck. Well, the movie was NOT sub-titled. Why that happened I guess I'll never know. But it gets way worse. Supposedly a tale about a vengeful Apache warrior princess whose husband (and everyone else) got massacred on her wedding day. Her spirit is looking for someone to help her avenge this wrongdoing. Uh, anyone else besides me seen "Avenged"? This could have been a really bad remake of an already real bad movie, but amazingly this mess made "Avenged" look like an Oscar contender. This was a direct rip-off of that movie: same premise, same disgusting gang rape scene, same men lacking opposable thumbs, same bad effects. Someone ought to sue somebody. This steaming pile of feces was awful--from the acting, to the directing, to the writing, to the editing, to the non-special effects, yep, it touched on all bases. I can always tell when there really is no talented screen writer because the dialogue usually turns to non- stop "F" bombs. There is no character development. There is nothing. Unrated for rape, sodomy, language, and graphic violence. Awful, and not recommended.

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.

I bet that a Bunch of kids can get together and come out with a better Movie Acting and direction. Except for her, The Actors are probably recruited for the Side walk in front of the Studio, and if they didn't, they should have been paid with Pizza. or paid by the Hour and the Story Plot Though it sounded Interesting as a Bride comes back for revenge " Sort of like KILL BILL" but when you start watching the only thing you will think about is: what the hell is that!!!! All in all this will Rank among your worst Hour and twenty Minutes ever spent in front of the Screen, and you will probably finish it because it is short anyway.

This movie is a little weird. First weird decision is that the movie starts off with having the viewer read the "legend" that makes up the main premise of the movie - this immediately got a groan from me. If you expect people to read, the movie that comes afterwords has to be amazing to the nth degree. A below-average revenge-* horror is not that. The second weird decision is making the above-mentioned 'legend' part of the premise - the main character was already a super-soldier lady who almost got away based on her own skills and showed herself more than competent. I can't help but feel that I would have cheered her on a little harder if it had just been her, one-woman'ing it up on her quest for vengeance (not that the possession changes that a huge deal - it's kind of hard to see to which degree she's possessed). Of course, that would have made it even more of a 'Grave' clone. It also didn't help that the 'legend' part was done so badly - Ayiana's costume was horrible and she spoke English when performing her little ritual (extremely jarring). Third weird decision is the pacing - there is pretty much no tension built at any point in the movie. It goes nothing-action-a bit of tension-action-nothing-action. The only real tension seemed to be when main lady was running from the villains after they killed Fiancé Guy but even that was quite short - what should have been the main focus, killing the villains, was completely unsatisfying and boring in the end with no tension or variance. On the formal side of things, acting was pretty bad. I didn't believe her, her fiancé or the villains for a second. Dialogue was pretty bad - the obnoxious villain sidekick was painful to listen to and all the others were almost as bad. Sound effects were pretty bad - gun shot sounds stand out as particularly mediocre and meh. Visual effects are very meh as well; it's often very obvious that the weapons don't make contact or cut aways are used to avoid using effects. Most egregious of all, though - and absolutely the funniest - is when Fiancé Guy talks to his bro over FaceTime. It's a still-image with normal (way too high quality, no options displayed) video imposed on it. That was the moment I knew what kind of movie this would be and I laughed and laughed. About the only things that seemed likable were that the relationship between the lovers was portrayed nicely (if acted somewhat sub-par) - light and humorous - and the strong female lead. She was clearly the one in the relationship associated with more "masculine" traits and the fiancé in turn showed some more "feminine" traits which made them seem like more substantial characters instead of the usual cardboard cut outs. In short, if you want rape-revenge horror, go for 'I Spit on Your Grave' - if you want possessed revenge horror, go for 'Savaged'. Neither were high art but both much better than this.

The Bride