Maggie Gyllenhaal's The Bride! makes multiple references to Frankenstein films of the past, but one Easter egg proves how ...

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — Maggie Gyllenhaal was fascinated with how the 1935 film “The Bride of Frankenstein” featured the bride in only the last two minutes and gave her no lines. That meant there ...

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. Less common is the character of The Bride of ...

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: It’s alive. Just months after Guillermo del Toro ...

The Bride! was born out of a fantasy. "I'm not speaking for Mary Shelley," its writer-director Maggie Gyllenhaal recently told the Los Angeles Times. "But there must have been some other, naughtier, ...

Maggie Gyllenhaal’s “The Bride!” imagines an empowered mate for the monster. We look back at other memorable cinematic versions. By Robert Ito For Maggie Gyllenhaal, the director, writer, and ...

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 ...