Two new movies ransack 19th century literary classics in search of 21st century resonance.

Magie Gyllenhaal's The Bride! has struggled in its second weekend at the box office and is threatening to become 2026's biggest flop yet ...

Maggie Gyllenhaal’s "The Bride!" is deeply flawed — and more exciting than any recent take on Mary Shelley's work.

The Bride! is Maggie Gyllenhaal's bold retelling of Mary Shelley's landmark 1818 novel Frankenstein in a chaotic and gloomy romance set in 1930s Chicago. Christian Bale is Frankenstein's monster Frank ...

The lack of a rich, fully articulate origin text for the Bride, not to mention how imperfect and compromised her movie ...

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 ...

“Here comes the motherf–ing Bride!” author Mary Shelley roars directly down the barrel in the opening minutes of Maggie Gyllenhaal’s batty, bold, and beautiful dissection of The Bride of Frankenstein.

“She finds herself in such an insane situation,” Gyllenhaal said in a press conference promoting the film. “Having been brought back from the dead without her consent to be the wife of someone that ...

This is a rare and atypically fulsome outing for The Bride herself, a macabre mate for the lonely monster, who was literally never completed in Mary Shelly’s novel, and was a mere cameo in James Whale ...