Wonderful character development!

Disapointment

The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

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.