Synopsis
The Bride (Невеста, 2017) is a Russian horror film you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Svyatoslav Podgaevsky. Nastya convinces her new husband Ivan to drive her to his hometown for a first meeting with his family. The town is nearly deserted. The family is polite in the way people are polite when they have a reason.
They want to conduct a traditional wedding ceremony. They won't explain what it involves. Victoria Agalakova plays Nastya through the whole slide: first unease, then sleeplessness, then something closer to dread. Vyacheslav Chepurchenko is Ivan. Alexandra Rebenok appears in a role that makes the film's second half harder to shake. The plot's hinge is a box of photographs of dead people, each one raising a question the movie doesn't answer right away. Podgaevsky skips jump scares and builds through accumulation — which makes it quieter and colder than most horror releases from that period.
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