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

The Bride!, starring Christian Bale and Jessie Buckley, is a wild, unique adaptation that breathes new life into this story.

Maggie Gyllenhaal’s invigoratingly loopy new horror comedy The Bride! overcomes preachiness with sheer stylishness. Although she works overtime to wring #MeToo-ready self-righteousness from the ...

Here comes The Bride. And you'd better take note of her name. Maggie Gyllenhaal's daring take on the Bride of Frankenstein makes it clear in a new trailer that this is — finally — the Bride's (Jessie ...

Christian Bale, one of Hollywood's finest chameleons, is known to go to extreme lengths for an immersive experience with his unique roles. In 2026, he did it again, this time to portray a new take on ...

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 ...

With her audacious sophomore feature “The Bride!” writer/director Maggie Gyllenhaal offers a topical-ish take on “Bride of Frankenstein”: what if “the Joker” was “brat”? (To borrow Charli XCX’s ineffa ...

When the opening frames of The Bride! displays introductory text establishing that Mary Shelley wrote her classic Gothic tragedy, Frankenstein, on a dare, it feels like needless table-setting.

Jessie Buckley and Christian Bale star in a reimagining of "Bride of Frankenstein" that's part horror, musical, noir and ...