Hellbride (2007) comes from the same writer/producer/director as KillerKiller (2007) but whereas the camp potential of the material in KillerKiller stayed more or less on the periphery, here it’s front and center. The spirit of a betrayed bride who killed the entire wedding party in retaliation still haunts her old engagement ring! Plus, a gang war, and the most non-comedic comedy this side of Bizarro World!
#1 by Baron Scarpia on September 25, 2008 - 1:19 am
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When you say ‘thick British accents’, could you please indicate from where in Britain? We have more accents than such a tiny nation has any right to have.
#2 by MatthewF on September 25, 2008 - 1:43 am
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You is jokin’ innit geezah?
Yeah when I lived in America I saw that they had re-looped Trainspotting with everyone speaking much softer scottish acting. if only they did that for american movies set in the deep south.
#3 by Nathan Shumate on September 25, 2008 - 6:05 am
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Good lord, like I can tell. I mean, the accents are English (not Scottish), and they’re not Cockney or Liverpudlian (at least, I don’t feel like I’m watching a Beatles movie). Beyond that, I can’t regionalize them further.
#4 by Gentle Benj on September 25, 2008 - 12:35 pm
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Oh man, now I wonder if the Trainspotting I saw was the looped one. Yeesh.
I gotta admit, though, that I had to watch Ratcatcher with subtitles.
#5 by lyzard on September 25, 2008 - 7:55 pm
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When my sister and brother-in-law stayed in Yorkshire, she had to act as translator for him the whole time they were there. What sounded plain to her ears was incomprehemsible in his.
Back a while I used to watch some of those true crime solving shows. One of my favourites involved a guy who killed someone, then lunked the body to his sister’s farm and asked if he could cut it up in HER barn using HER power tools, and bury the bits on HER land. AND SHE SAID YES!!!! I have already informed *my* brother that he need not expect the same level of cooperation. Or the same number of power tools.
Nathan, I find myself intrigued by the mental image of a “Victorian-era bride” turning her wedding into a bloodbath. Presumably we’re not talking high-power assault weapons…?
#6 by MatthewF on September 26, 2008 - 4:35 am
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“I find myself intrigued by the mental image of a “Victorian-era bride” turning her wedding into a bloodbath.”
She just runs around tightening all the ladies corsets extra tight until they explode.
#7 by Nathan Shumate on September 26, 2008 - 6:10 am
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Alas, they never show the massacre in flashback (too expensive), and keep it purposely vague as to how she killed all those people with the primitive, Stone Age weapons they had back then.
#8 by Baron Scarpia on September 26, 2008 - 7:55 am
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Maybe she poisoned the champagne and everyone drank it. Or wouldn’t that be dramatic enough?
#9 by Nathan Shumate on September 26, 2008 - 8:12 am
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Well, she did bite off her own ring finger and spit it at her fiance in a final show of defiance, so I’m thinking it was bloodier.
#10 by MatthewF on September 26, 2008 - 8:34 am
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Maybe she just cut them down with really devestating witicisms.
#11 by Baron Scarpia on September 26, 2008 - 3:29 pm
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Was that it, though? Self-mutiliation and bloodbath because the intended groom dallied around with other women? I’m all for teaching the unfaithful a lesson, but butchering everyone attending your wedding seems a bit excessive.
#12 by Nathan Shumate on September 26, 2008 - 3:34 pm
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THIS JUST IN: Crazed killers in horror movies are excessive and unusual! Film at eleven!
#13 by lyzard on September 26, 2008 - 5:12 pm
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It’s just a little harder to picture than, say, the primal scene in John Farris’s “All Heads Turn When The Hunt Goes By”, wherein the groom is wearing formal military garb including a side-sabre. (Is that the right term?)