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."
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."