"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 ...

Frankenstein and his Bride become an undead Bonnie and Clyde in Maggie Gyllenhaal’s riot grrl take on the story. Credit: Courtesy of Warner Bros. Mary Shelley (Jessie Buckley) is dead, but she has ...

With just $13.5 million globally against an $80 million production budget, Maggie Gyllenhaal's film is shaping up to be one of the bigger flops of 2026. For Warner Bros., it ends a streak of nine ...

It’s alive, but it’s not exactly showing signs of life. Set in the 1930s, “The Bride!” follows a very lonely Frankenstein’s monster (Christian Bale) and his undead love interest (Jessie Buckley) as ...

After years of talk about Hollywood reimagining The Bride of Frankenstein for the modern age, Maggie Gyllenhaal's The Bride! is among new 2026 movies out this week, and it’s time to talk about the ...

There’s a new Frankenstein in town and she’s a lot. Feeling dizzy after watching Jessie Buckley and Christian Bale’s new film The Bride!, directed by Maggie Gyllenhaal? Morbidly curious and looking to ...

Frankenstein’s female creature, also known as “the Bride”, was the first female monster to appear on screen, in the 1935 Frankenstein sequel: The Bride of Frankenstein. An unruly and rebellious figure ...

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 ...

Like the title character of her new movie “The Bride!,” Maggie Gyllenhaal got possessed by Mary Shelley. In crafting her genre-smashing take on “The Bride of Frankenstein,” the director went down a ...

About the time Christian Bale’s Frankenstein and Jessie Buckley’s Bride crash an A-list party in 1930s New York and jump-start a full-on musical number set to “Puttin’ on the Ritz,” it is clear that ...