Director Maggie Gyllenhaal shares how she adapted the bride's iconic look to reclaim the character's voice—both visually and figuratively.

Maggie Gyllenhaal’s “The Bride!” imagines an empowered mate for the monster. We look back at other memorable cinematic ...

Most recently, the Bride, as a dramatic character, has been part of a series of creative reimaginings through an explicitly feminist lens. For instance, the dark coming of age comedy, Lisa ...

In 1935, Universal Pictures hyped Bride of Frankenstein by making a mystery out of the Monster’s Mate. “Who will be the Bride ...

Directed by James Whale, the 1935 movie and its prequel, a 1931 adaptation of Mary Shelley's classic novel, laid the ...

There have been many misconceptions about the same, because of films like The Bride of Frankenstein, which seems to have ...

Not all the rage.

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 ...

A review of Maggie Gyllenhaal's 'The Bride!' an offbeat love story between Jessie Buckley's bride and Christian Bale's ...

Meanwhile, Frankenstein’s monster (Christian Bale) has become so agonizingly lonely in his century of undead existence that he seeks out the eccentric Dr. Euphronius (a wonderfully wry Annette Bening) ...

This is a rare and atypically fulsome outing for The Bride herself, a macabre mate for the lonely monster, who was literally ...

Despite its fair share of stumbles, "The Bride!" succeeds as a vibrant, engaging love story between two monsters.