Movie Review: Maggie Gyllenhaal’s ‘The Bride!’ is a Frankenstein riff with a pulse

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 ...

Chaotic film The Bride! makes other Frankenstein movies seem subtle

The story of Dr. Frankenstein and his monster is now over 200 years old, with Mary Shelley’s book having been adapted or ...
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In ‘Bride of Frankenstein,’ the Monster’s Wife Never Speaks. Now, Maggie Gyllenhaal’s ‘The Bride!’ Gives the Iconic Character a Voice

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

How Bride of Frankenstein Brought Horror to Life (Before Censorship Killed It) | IGN Flashback Review

Review: Bride of Frankenstein was the apex of the Golden Age of horror... and it came in right before a new wave of Hollywood ...

Maggie Gyllenhaal made to cut 1 gruesome scene from Bride of Frankenstein reimagining

Maggie Gyllenhaal's Bride of Frankenstein reimagining The Bride! features a star-studded cast including Christian Bale and ...

I Thought I Knew What To Expect From The Original Bride Of Frankenstein Movie, But I Just Watched It, And WTF?

It served as the first sequel in a string of Frankenstein movies Universal Studios made in the 1930s and 1940s. The plot revolves around Henry Frankenstein attempting to desert his past experiments ...

The Bride! review: Maggie Gyllenhaal's riff on the Bride of Frankenstein is 'exhilarating' ★★★★☆

A ferocious Jessie Buckley and a heartbreaking Christian Bale star in a bold film of "huge scope and ambition" that is "loaded with surprises".