The most impressive thing about The Bride!, Maggie Gyllenhaal's feminist revamp of The Bride of Frankenstein, is how thoroughly ill-conceived it is. This movie fails at everything. There is not a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. At the end of Shelley’s novel, Frankenstein’s monster yearned for companionship, begging his master to create him not just a ...

In a world of hot monsters and messy love affairs, gothic romance films have truly reclaimed their stake in the hearts of modern viewers. From The Creature in Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein, to the ...

The premise of The Bride! is hidden from its advertising. Writer-director Maggie Gyllenhaal opens on Mary Shelley (an acidic Jessie Buckley) stuck in a black-and-white purgatory of sorts, only her ...

Fast forward to 2026. Earlier this year, Guillermo del Toro gave us Frankenstein, which was a set design masterpiece. And now Maggie Gyllenhaal’s The Bride has just hit the silver screens. A two- hour ...

No less imaginative is the importation of the story from Europe to midcentury America. This allows the film to include among its sights rollicking nightclubs, decadent parties, and grand movie palaces ...

Actor and filmmaker Maggie Gyllenhaal’s The Bride! is a new take on one of the most iconic — but seldom-explored — characters in horror: the bride of Frankenstein. The film is set in Chicago in the ...

Polina Zelmanova receives funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council to support the research undertaken as part of her PhD.. Frankenstein’s female creature, also known as “the Bride”, was ...

Even before Ida (Jessie Buckley) becomes a black-bile-spewing revenant, you wouldn’t call her a proper lady. At a shady gin joint in Chicago, 1936, she’s vacant-eyed, slurring, and lurching in her ...