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.