My quick rating – 4.3/10. Tubi has been pumping out a lot of original content lately, and when Prey for the Bride showed up in their latest promo email, I figured why not give it a shot. The setup is familiar: a group of women head out for a bachelorette getaway, only to find themselves hunted by a masked figure with a score to settle—and secrets to expose. Sounds like solid slasher territory, right? Unfortunately, this one barely grazes the genre’s potential.
Let’s start with the good—or at least the promising. The film kicks off with a quick stabbing, which gave me some hope that it might go full throttle early on. But that initial flash of blood ends up being one of the few sharp moments in an otherwise blunt experience. From there, it devolves into painfully stilted one-on-one dialogue. Seriously, it feels like the actors are reading their lines off cue cards held just out of frame. Whether it’s wooden delivery, awkward pauses, or forced emotional beats, the script constantly drags things down.
As a slasher, Prey for the Bride commits the worst genre sin: it’s tame. The kills are uninspired and bloodless, the mystery is surface-level, and there’s a notable absence of the usual campy charm or shock factor. No gratuitous sex scenes, no inventive gore—just safe, sanitized death scenes that would feel more at home in a mid-tier crime procedural than a horror flick. In fact, this feels like what would happen if Lifetime tried to make a slasher movie, minus the dramatic monologues and courtroom scenes.
The cast, to their credit, isn’t terrible. Nobody stands out, but nobody really tanks it either. They get the job done in the most average way possible. The pacing is surprisingly on point; the film never really drags, and it keeps moving briskly toward its third-act twist. That said, the finale is a mess—ambitious, sure, but utterly implausible. Without spoiling anything, let’s just say the laws of physics (and common sense) were completely ignored. Forensics would tear this scenario apart in seconds.
Still, there’s a niche audience for this kind of low-budget horror. If you’re a slasher completionist or someone who browses Tubi looking for new horror to throw on in the background, this might satisfy a late-night craving. But for those hoping for a rewatchable cult gem or even a guilty pleasure, you’ll be disappointed. It’s just not sharp enough.
Prey for the Bride tries to blend bachelorette party drama with slasher thrills, but ends up delivering a bland, bloodless experience that forgets what makes the genre tick. Skip it unless you’re scraping the bottom of the Tubi barrel—or curious how a Lifetime horror might look.
I am guessing Tubi is the only place to see this but JustWatch doesn’t even show that.
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