The story of Dr. Frankenstein and his monster is now over 200 years old, with Mary Shelley’s book having been adapted or referenced in close to 500 films.

Maggie Gyllenhaal's latest film, 'The Bride!', explores agency, identity and feminism in the messy 1930s world of monsters and men.

Even so, it was far from the first time that these classic Universal monsters were utilized for social commentary. Over a decade ago, Showtime’s Gothic take on classic characters came about in Penny ...

In the opening beats of The Bride!, the second feature written and directed by Maggie Gyllenhaal, the ghost of Mary Shelley (Jessie Buckley) mutters to herself from some dark corner of the ...

The Bride!, a modern retelling of The Bride of Frankenstein, takes massive swings in terms of performances, plotting and ...

It isn’t much of a hot take to suggest this, but the only classic Universal monster movie better than James Whale’s 1931 Frankenstein is his 1935 sequel, The Bride of Frankenstein. In fact, the only ...

Despite its lofty goals, a disjointed story structure and grating sensibility make the film more irritating than insightful.

Maggie Gyllenhaal’s “The Bride!” is a big, brash swing at a new “The Bride of Frankenstein” that struggles to cohere its many ...

The story of Dr. Frankenstein and his monster is now over 200 years old, with Mary Shelley’s book having been adapted or ...

Mashing together a century of cinema’s monsters and horror literature even before that, nobody’s gonna say about The Bride! that it doesn’t come to play, and play hard—nowhere more emphatic than in ...

Maggie Gyllenhaal’s follow-up to “The Lost Daughter” is an incomprehensible movie mash-up.

Jessie Buckley and Christian Bale star as the Bride and Frankenstein's monster in Maggie Gyllenhaal's remake of The Bride of Frankenstein.