The film "The Bride": reviews of the audience, features and the actor's group

The new offspring of the director Svyatoslav Podgaevsky2017, which broke the starter record of his horror film "The Queen of Spades: The Black Rite", was recognized by domestic film industry experts as a very competent and verified project in the genre of Gothic horror.

Expert evaluation

Together with this horror film "The Bride" reviewscritics has also more restrained, pointing to the lack of bold innovative solutions. Therefore, if we evaluate the rating of art critics as a whole, i.е. the ratio of positive reviews to the total number of reviews of professionals, then in percentage terms it was 40%. Although the reviews of the movie "The Bride" (2017), published by the townsfolk, suggest that the task of captivating and frightening the beholder is coping just fine.

Domestic Horror Gothic

Extremely popular horror-gothic abroadthe Russian cinema is poorly represented, there are no own "Crimson Peaks", "Women in Black" and "Sleepy Hollows" in Russia, we have a different mentality, folklore, history of development and aesthetics. Nevertheless, in the presence of talent and an irresistible desire, our cinematographers have all the conditions that allow us to lift the veil over this eerie world. As the reviews about the movie "The Bride" say, the authors of the project do not take away the fact that they managed to create a strong, consistent world in which everything that happens is explained clearly, clearly, although sometimes trite. Svyatoslav Podgaevsky already had experience in the formation of a picture of an eerie rite, now the "Bride" can be called a worthy heiress of "The Queen of Spades", she is also carefully thought out. This fact, with apparent simplicity, is very important for high-quality horror, most of the tapes of this genre "break" in banal stupidity and illogicality.

The universal "horror story"

As the reviews say, the film "The Bride" has everythingnecessary components: a frightening secret, colorful heroes, innocent victims and bonded accomplices of a specific sacrifice. The undoubted advantage of horror is the author's decision to make the narration beyond the framework of civilized modernity. At a certain point, history is transformed into a universal "horror story", which at times reinforces the impression of viewing.

Ensemble of the tape "The Bride" (2017) reviews receivedextremely positive. Many reviewers noted that all actors performed their work very well and perfectly supplemented the overall picture. Alexander Child, reincarnated in the image of Elizabeth - the elder sister of Ivan, was unsurpassed. Many filmmakers believe that this is her best acting work at the moment. In the heroine of Alexandra unimaginable number of faces, it is impossible not to admire her. The reference purity is hidden behind the sweet appearance of Victoria Agalakova - the performer of the main role of Nastia. This character is exemplary with the status thirst for life, naivety and love.

Strong genre project

Reviews of the movie "The Bride", publishedcritics, emphasize that Podgaevsky in his new work does not seek postmodernism, does not ignore the canonical genre patterns and traditions. His picture works exactly as it should a true genre movie. It is possible that experienced fans of horror films will be sad from the startling twist of the final twist, without an unpredictable plot twist, but the average landlord will definitely have to taste. Therefore, the Russian film "The Bride" is welcomed. The picture is executed in an extravagant author's manner, annoying mistakes and errors of previous works by the director are taken into account, the performers do not lose sight, but are fully included in the game, the computer graphics are not annoying. The experience of many years of domestic horrormakers was not in vain - in 2017, the "Bride" is the most impressive genre project, which is not a shame to praise.

Brief description of the story line

Neutral movie "The Bride" received forvery predictable storyline. The narrative begins with the fact that Igor Khripunov, an acquaintance of the previous work of Podgaevsky, in the image of a pre-revolutionary photographer, repeatedly tries to fix the head of the deceased lover in front of the lens. According to the fashion of that time, the dead relatives and friends had to be photographed. Also there was a belief that the deceased could be returned from the world of the dead. Therefore, the photographer tried to capture the soul of the deceased bride in a daguerreotype, in order to transfer it to the body of a serf girl.

After this prologue, the narrative is transferred toour days, where a descendant of the same daguerreotype Ivan (Vyacheslav Chepurchenko from Izmeny) is connected by marriage with the beautiful Nastya (Victoria Agalakova). After the painting, the young wife wants to get acquainted with the wife's relatives, and he takes her to a family estate, which is a gentry estate of the 1800s. The way of life of the inhabitants of the estate also did not change much. The sister of the young husband Liza (Alexandra Rebenok) uses kerosene lamps. The relatives meet the couple quite affably, but soon Ivan disappears somewhere, and Nasty is beginning to overcome unhealthy forebodings.

Not without problems and defects

In general, in the demonstration of the mansion and its inhabitantsthe creators of the picture stand standards of design ideas of foreign horror films like "Crimson Peak" or "Other". Residents at home look and behave outwardly, realizing that they are inside the horror film. This, to some extent, explains why they do not try to leave the ill-fated home. This fact, according to reviews of the audience, in the movie "The Bride" is one of the most controversial moments. It is hard for the beholder to realize that in a comprehensive sense all the characters in the picture behave as if they identify themselves with the characters of the movie. And this time we are not talking about postmodern deconstruction as in "Scream". In this case, the director knows all the genre standards (references to "Mom"), so he tries to work carefully, without snobbery. Therefore, episodes when the main character sees herself from the outside, is not schizophrenic at all, she simply sees herself as a moviegoer. For the inhabitant of the horror film it's quite logical to wander aimlessly through the dark corridors, not trying to escape at a favorable moment, but, on the contrary, heading to the darkest alleys. All these delights are easy to accept, the real incidents in the picture begin when limping story logic and violate the rules, indicated by the mythology of the tape.

Disadvantages of the picture

Svyatoslav Podgaevsky not only directsthe second film, but also tries himself in film drama, is engaged in writing scripts. Perhaps, therefore, the plot problems migrate from the project to the project. According to the assessment of film critics, the nature of everything that has happened is poorly worked out in the cinema, sharp changes in the manner of the evil spirit's behavior are allowed in favor of the scene necessary for the author, significant details are missed, plot sagging and even holes are straining to explain only the final.

Of course, after the starting "Possession 18" and morecompetent "Queen of Spades" for Podgaevsky, whom the filmmakers nicknamed "the hope of Russian horror," "The Bride" is indeed a huge leap forward. No busting in the number of frightening effects and screechers, special effects do not upset (in any way), most of the horror stories work in harmony with the soundtrack. Also, to assert that the cinema in everything predictably and completely consists of genre cliches can not be - as the horror of the "Bride" (2017) says in the reviews. The rating of the horror film according to the aggregator of reviews "KinoBeach" - 4.7.

To a level superior

The "bride" is truly the most technically soundand qualitative in terms of form, the domestic horror of our time, it is on a level higher than all the latest samples such as "Diggers", "Route built", "Queen of Spades" and "Disak". If we consider it in the context of world cinema, then the project Podgaevsky is the average goppkor level of the production of works by James Wang. The picture is the same case, when a positive impression of viewing remains even when there are private blunders and blatant shortcomings.

As a protective reaction

Domestic horrormeykeram should already understand,that the Russian viewer, who does not particularly trust domestic film production, will not forgive mistakes in the logic of the plot of the horror film. This perception is like a protective reaction, reminiscent of laughter while watching frightening moments. Only this time includes common sense and an irresistible desire to criticize all that they are trying to scare without serious reasoning.