The Bride!, like Hamlet, begins with a knock-knock joke. A ghost appears, and talks of being trapped by a story that has festered in her brain, like a tumor, for centuries. This is Mary Shelley ...

The writer-director also explains the offbeat 1930s setting of her 'Bride of Frankenstein' riff, which hits theaters in March. Reading time 4 minutes Last year, creature-feature fans got a lavishly ...

“The Bride!” opens somewhere unknowable — a vignetted dark space in which the specter of Mary Shelley (Jessie Buckley) feels like she’s lit by her own unquenchable desire for mischief, and a version ...

Peter Sarsgaard, Penélope Cruz, Annette Bening and Jake Gyllenhaal also appear in this punk-rock exhumation of a character only briefly introduced in Mary Shelley’s novel. By David Rooney Chief Film ...

If you love classic movies, THE BRIDE! is pure delight, fun with a brain that is a treat deluxe for those who love both classic movies and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s original book “Frankenstein.” ...

The Bride! arrives this week, and the delay in its release—it was originally slated for fall 2025—makes perfect sense. That’s not just because the shift put distance between Guillermo del Toro’s ...

Huh. Well, I have to say, Maggie Gyllenhaal’s Frankenstein retelling, The Bride, definitely has the most shoot-outs of any Frankenstein movie I’ve ever seen. It almost feels more like a gritty, ...

The first official images of Maggie Gyllenhaal’s highly anticipated take on a classic monster story, The Bride, have been revealed, offering a striking look at a punk-rock reimagining of the Bride of ...

Official image from ‘The Bride!’ courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures. The Bride of Frankenstein is a classic, feminine twist on the original story of Frankenstein, which has been consistently alluded to ...