Any merits of The Bride!, of which there are many, slam into a brick wall in the face of its biggest problem: undermining surreal storytelling with hyper-literal storytelling.
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Gothic is a fascinating watch, to be sure, especially with a packed Weird Wednesday crowd on a well-preserved 35mm print. That said, it depends entirely on the viewer as to whether or not this is a brilliant, hallucinogenic trip into madness, or the equivalent of showing up to a party where all your friends have already taken their substances of choice while you choose to remain sober and watch over them to make sure nothing too stupid happens.
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