Maggie Gyllenhaal’s The Bride! offers a fresh take on the iconic Frankenstein mythology, reimagining the Creature’s search for love in a bold new way. Starring Christian Bale as Frank and Jessie ...
Ostensibly, Maggie Gyllenhaal’s second film, The Bride! offers a reimagining of the 1936 film The Bride of Frankenstein, in which the bride appears only briefly and does not say a single word. This is ...
Kenneth Branagh and Helena Bonham Carter looking shocked and upset in the midst of a crowd in 'Mary Shelley's Frankenstein' Image via TriStar Pictures Guillermo del Toro’s take on Mary Shelley’s ...
Just like how women’s stories matter (they just do!), movie monsters are gayyyyy, they just are! Compelling beasties who get ostracized by the rest of the world because of the way they were born have ...
No less imaginative is the importation of the story from Europe to midcentury America. This allows the film to include among its sights rollicking nightclubs, decadent parties, and grand movie palaces ...
"The Bride!" writer/director Gyllenhaal tells IndieWire about using genre tools to create a world that's as much the 1980s as it is the 1930s. The film features cheeky references to Ginger Rogers and ...
In “The Bride!” Maggie Gyllenhaal fails to breathe new life into a classic source material. Landing in theaters March 6, actress and filmmaker Maggie Gyllenhaal’s sophomore directorial project trips ...
Through all of its muddled schlock, Gyllenhaal’s film never once loses its distinctly feminine ambition, and that makes “The Bride!” a far more faithful “Frankenstein” adaptation than any made by a ...
Welcome back to our queer film retrospective, “A Gay Old Time.” In this week’s column, with Frankenstein riff The Bride! hitting theaters, let’s revisit 1935’s subtextually queer horror classic Bride ...
When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. I’m talking about the 1935 classic starring Boris Karloff as Frankenstein’s monster, and Elsa ...
With Bride of Frankenstein In 1935, director James Whale brought to life more than just a would-be wife for his first monstrous creation. He helped electrify a Hollywood playbook that Marvel, DC and ...
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