The Bride! is in theaters on March 6. Frankenstein's lightning-streaked bride has been an enduring image on screen ever since James Whale, the director of the original 1931 Frankenstein film, ...

Writer-director Maggie Gyllenhaal proves with her second film, "The Bride!", that not all ideas should be brought to life.

In 1930s Chicago, Frankenstein’s Monster (Christian Bale) and a mad scientist (Annette Bening) resurrect a recently deceased woman (Jessie Buckley), who has ties to the Mob — and Mary Shelley. The ...

Maggie Gyllenhaal’s “The Bride!” is a big, brash swing at a new “The Bride of Frankenstein” that struggles to cohere its many parts. But I’ll say this for it: It’s alive. Just months after Guillermo ...

Considering there have been an estimated 187 cinematic takes on Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, and about 20 of them zoning in on the Bride of Frankenstein in one ...

At just 18, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley wrote her first and most famous novel, Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. 208 years later, Shelley's story is still captivating us, inspiring hundreds of ...

The Bride! is a 2026 American Gothic romance written and directed by acclaimed actor-turned-director Maggie Gyllenhaal. The film features striking performances from BAFTA winner Jessie Buckley and ...

A goth-punk feminist revival of Mary Shelley refracted through noir fatalism, vaudevillian spectacle, and a lovers-on-the-run romance that echoes the outlaw mythology of Bonnie and Clyde sounds like ...