Main cast: Panisara Rikulsurakan (Mill) and Sakuntala Thianphairot (Nuch)
Director: Surapong Ploensang
In Wedding Dress, our lead character Mill — or Milk according to the subtitles but I’ll just go with Mill — gets a job at a bridal boutique. She will be running it alone, since the owner is busy doing… other things.
Sure, it is creepy, dust is everywhere, and the whole place including her bedroom is dimly lit and dank, and everything looks like a mess that has not been inhabited for at least ten years, but hey, if Mill had been sensible and fled, then there wouldn’t be an episode to dump into this show.
This episode tries to do too much and too little at the same time.
For way too long, it is far too invested in scaring the audience with epileptic seizure-inducing light effects, jump scares, and loud sounds that don’t really go anywhere. This nonsense only reminds me why I have long given up on Asian horror cinema, especially Thai and Korean ones, as too many people assume that a good horror film is just slapping on as many jump scares as possible in the run time.
Then, Mill falls under the spell of a wedding dress and starts to act weirdly. Her erratic behavior is fueled by her mom pressing for her to marry her boyfriend, while her boyfriend has no interest in marrying her at all.
This part is more interesting than Mill’s earlier adventures in a jump scare marathon, but even then, the annoying stroboscope light effects and jump scares keep coming. I won’t mind them if they actually do anything, but here, it’s just boom bang boom bang BOOO and then on to the next one. Pointless.
Even when things finally happen in the last quarter or so of the episode, I get a tired regurgitation of common “beauty makes a woman do extreme things” tropes that are never put together in a particularly coherent way.
In other words, the people behind this episode have studied the formula to make the most annoying and generic Asian horror show possible, but they don’t seem to know much else.
This episode is just loud noises and annoying lighting in a relentless surge, and all it offers are cheap jump scares.
