Directed by James Whale, the 1935 movie and its prequel, a 1931 adaptation of Mary Shelley's classic novel, laid the ...
Maggie Gyllenhaal’s invigoratingly loopy new horror comedy The Bride! overcomes preachiness with sheer stylishness. Although ...
Maggie Gyllenhaal's The Bride! makes multiple references to Frankenstein films of the past, but one Easter egg proves how ...
Just months after Guillermo del Toro presented his lavish “Frankenstein,” Gyllenhaal, in her follow-up to her excellent 2021 ...
The story of Dr. Frankenstein and his monster is now over 200 years old, with Mary Shelley’s book having been adapted or ...
The Bride is a spectacular, wonderful, fascinating mess.
Maggie Gyllenhaal's big swing directorial effort The Bride! was never going to be a box office success. It's something much more valuable.
It served as the first sequel in a string of Frankenstein movies Studios made in the 1930s and 1940s. The plot revolves around Henry Frankenstein attempting to desert his past experiments and live a ...
Maggie Gyllenhaal's The Bride subverts expectations with its conclusion to Bride and Frankenstein's gothic love story.
There have been numerous adaptations of Mary Shelley's classic Gothic novel "Frankenstein" over the decades, but which ones are the cream of the crop?
Writer-director Maggie Gyllenhaal’s gonzo revisionist take on James Whale’s 1935 “Bride of Frankenstein” is a "hellzapoppin’ cacophony of silly ideas and mad movie love, overhauling the queer-coded ...