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The Bride (2015 Taiwanese film)
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Wikipedia article
'The Bride' is a 2015 Taiwanese horror film directed by Lingo Hsieh and starring Wu Kang-ren, Nikki Hsieh, Vera Yen, and Chie Tanaka. The film explores the local custom of ghost marriage, and it has been described as having restarted the local horror genre in Taiwan. The film was nominated for best narrative at the 18th Taipei Film Festival in 2016.
Plot
Liu Cheng-Hao (Wu Kang-ren), producer of a supernatural tv show, is successful in both life and love: not only is work going smoothly, but him and his fiancee (Nikki Hsieh) live together happily. After Cheng-Hao picks up a strange red envelope in the park, however, he begins to have recurrent nightmares about an old house.
Senior high school student Yin-Yin (Vera Yen) has had the Yin and Yang eye ; since she was little, she has been able to see things that are not really there. However, recently the monstrosities appearing before her have become increasingly severe.
All clues point to the old house deep in the mountains that has been forgotten long ago.
Cast
* Wu Kang-ren as Liu Cheng-Hao ()
* Nikki Hsieh as Chen Yung-Chieh ()
* Vera Yen as Lin Yin-Yin ()
* Chie Tanaka as Wang Yi-Han ()
* Andrew Chen as Chang Kai-Hsiang ()
* Ching-Hsia Chiang as Hsuan Chen ()
* Ikehata Reina as Nana ()
* Iling Kao as Yin-Yin's mother
* Lingyuan Kung as Kung Ling-Pao ()
* Chen-Lin Wang as Wang Chia-Hui ()
* Ning Chang as female ghost
Release
The film was released in Taiwan on 20 August 2015. It took TWD 16 million at the box office, taking over TWD 10 million in its first week.
Critical reception
Chang Che-Ming of ET Today praised the atmosphere of the film, but observed that, "every character's reason for existing seems to be only to move the plot along" thus "all emotional twists are too fleeting and unrealistic." James Mudge of Eastern Kicks gave the film 3.5 of 5 stars, praising Ling Hsieh's direction and saying that while, "theres nothing original or terribly creative here, most of the films twists and themes having been covered before, meaning that most viewers will spot the ending coming from very early on," he cited the film's "culturally Taiwanese grounding" as providing a particularly creepy atmosphere.References
Category:2015 films
Category:2015 horror films
Category:Taiwanese horror films
Category:Taiwanese ghost films
Category:Films set in Taiwan
Category:Taiwanese-language films
Category:2010s Mandarin-language films
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