The longstanding Italian tradition of making horror films in English with female leads and over-egged scores and attractive cinematography and incoherent plots is alive and well in the 2020s, or so it would seem from Francesco Picone’s latest effort. Dead Bride sees a woman, her husband and their baby move into the house which she has inherited from her father, who recently died by suicide. Having been abandoned by her father at the age of nine, Alyson (Jennifer Mischiati) has had lifelong mental health problems which are all the more worrying due to the severe illness which troubled her mother. She’s coping pretty well for a new mother but is aware of her limits and smart enough to speak up when she needs help. When husband Richard (Christoph Hülsen) announces out of the blue that he’s going away on a work trip, she shudders at the thought of being without.
- 3/20/2023
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
A young couple and their child move into possessed home in this turgid tale plagued by diabolical dubbed-in dialogue
This turgid horror feature starts with a young couple in the present: American-accented Alyson (Jennifer Mischiati) and faintly German-sounding Richard (Christoph Hülsen), who move into Alyson’s old home with their infant son after her father commits suicide. That sounds like a bad idea from the start, but then it gets markedly worse. Alyson is plagued by memories of her unhappy childhood in the house, abused by a seamstress mother with mental health issues, while a ghostly apparition that looks like a ravaged mannequin in a greasy wig crops up on the regular to make everyone scream. Eventually the baby gets abducted soon after a visit from a priest (Sean James Sutton) who proves useless at ridding the house of its demonic presence.
Soon after, a bespectacled psychic (Michael Segal) comes...
This turgid horror feature starts with a young couple in the present: American-accented Alyson (Jennifer Mischiati) and faintly German-sounding Richard (Christoph Hülsen), who move into Alyson’s old home with their infant son after her father commits suicide. That sounds like a bad idea from the start, but then it gets markedly worse. Alyson is plagued by memories of her unhappy childhood in the house, abused by a seamstress mother with mental health issues, while a ghostly apparition that looks like a ravaged mannequin in a greasy wig crops up on the regular to make everyone scream. Eventually the baby gets abducted soon after a visit from a priest (Sean James Sutton) who proves useless at ridding the house of its demonic presence.
Soon after, a bespectacled psychic (Michael Segal) comes...
- 3/14/2023
- by Leslie Felperin
- The Guardian - Film News
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