Wedding 93

Finding Honeycomb (2022-also reviewed) to be the second film I saw at the Cine-Excess Festival, I started to hope that third time would be the charm, and got set to go to a wedding.

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Note: Review contains some plot details.

Not listing any of the cast and crew in the credits apart from the director/ producer, director Paul Zagaris tapes a very good Found Footage rough appearance, with the grainy, VHS warm fuzz overcoming forced jump-scares and the picking up the camera/ continuing to record when most people would run away, to successfully create a tense mood of being in the middle of an unfolding horror.

Spliced together from (fake) wedding footage and interviews of a Cambodian wedding, the screenplay by the (un-credited) writer, keeps details on if the wife is possessed to a minimum, to instead focus on the more realistic horror of her being treated as a possession, forced into marriage shortly after the death of a close friend, with no family member caring about her well being, all at this 1993 wedding.

This film should go down in history as extremely unique. The intensity and stress of the storyline creates a tension that has big payoffs throughout this movie.