A Bride's Revenge (2019 TV Movie) User Reviews

Misogynistic ad feminam Bertha Mason Gaslighting

[nadshi · 3/10 · 30 May 2021]

The cast is attractive but from the 1st scene brunette & gaslighted Bertha Mason in Jane Eyre springs to mind. Bertha's entrapment posited as security/care, purported insanity & how women are erroneously depicted as violent bullies, the anti-feminist flaws in feminist Jane Eyre are also present here.

The movie was a disappointment because of the misogynistic portrayal of the beautiful female protagonist, despite being visually magnificent. If u liked Jane Eyre and rooted for Rochester & 18yr Jane his daughter's tutor to get together, get married, And despised Bertha then this is for you. If you like beautiful buildings, homes, architecture, greenery, Californian suburbs, well manicured hedges, shrubs like I do, you will be very very pleased with the look of the film, like I am.

It is worth watching for the picturesque POVs, the stunning women, general pulchritude of the film. I didn't like Tom Cruise starring The Mummy for similar reasons. And Dr. Beck's character in the 2 "Stalked by my doctor" movies. Mental illness is treated as anomalous & villainous; 'bad guys' are 1dimensional.

This isn't Jane Eyre, so not a spoiler.

Like the actresses - the story is a bit déjà vu

[phd_travel · 7/10 · 23 January 2019]

I like Katie Leclerc from Switched at Birth. It's great to see her in a Lifetime thriller. She plays the new fiancé of a man whose crazy ex starts insinuating her way into the couple's lives. The crazy one is quite pretty too.

The twist explanation is a bit cliched. The secret sibling? Hasn't that been done too many times?

OK for one watch.

Crazy Good Excitement

[Kristamw · 10/10 · 26 September 2019]

A very exciting thriller with great acting by the main characters. Lori, the jilted almost-bride, is crazy; Hannah Barefoot plays the role perfectly. There is nothing more you want to do than warn the newly engaged couple, Ian and Miya, to watch their backs!

Writing Quality: Pretty solid. Definitely engaging throughout. Scare Factor: Not so much as the film focuses on the disturbing psyche of the villain rather than jump scares. There is one moment that really surprised me, when Ian and Lori are talking in her house--totally unexpected! Content (sex, language, & violence): No sex. Mild violence--more threatening like behavior than actual physical violence. Values & Themes: Relationship trust & commitment. Getting to the bottom of the truth. The penultimate scene is creatively chaotic. The ending is very happy, which I appreciate.

Here Comes the Bride!!!

[lavatch · 8/10 · 17 September 2019]

Lori is the bride who is jilted in a wedding planned with Ian to be conducted in the chapel of the San Juan Batista mission in Northern California, the setting for much of Alfred Hitchcock's classic thriller "Vertigo." One year later, Lori relocates to Los Angeles, where she goes on a mission of vengeance against Ian and his new fiancée Miya.

The film builds good suspense in the recurring appearances of a veiled bride harassing Ian and Miya. Somehow, Lori always has an alibi for the times when the bride is wreaking havoc on the streets of Los Angeles. The mama's boy Ian has a smother-mother in Deb, who is recovering from surgery and leaves the kitchen door open, thereby becoming a victim of Lori's diabolical vendetta against her son.

Part of the mystery of Lori's past pertains to the death of her father, who left home when Lori was nine, then died in a mysterious fire. The mother now has dementia, and the secret to unlocking the mystery may be in the circumstances of the fire in which arson was suspected.

Miya works in a styling salon where there are occasional troubling remarks and suspicious glances from her co-workers. Could either of those nice hair stylists be colluding with Lori? How else to explain the strange delivery of flowers charged to Miya's credit card?

The film has excellent production values, including good location footage, plus performers who are somehow able to keep straight faces during the campy scenes and melodramatic dialogue. Suspense is maintained throughout the film with no lapses, and the culminating confrontation in the Pentcliffe Mausoleum is a cliffhanger on the scale of the fall down the bell tower in Hitchcock's "Vertigo."