Maggie Gyllenhaal’s R-rated reimagining of the Bride of Frankenstein is hitting turbulence, raising questions about timing, audience appetite, and studio strategy for classic monster IP. The project, ...

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 ...

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

Minor SPOILERS are ahead for The Bride!, now playing in theaters.

Maggie Gyllenhaal’s "The Bride!" is deeply flawed — and more exciting than any recent take on Mary Shelley's work.

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 ...

Elsa Lanchester’s Bride of Frankenstein is an icon, even if most people have never actually seen the only film in which the character appeared. Her image is instantly recognizab ...

Initially, The Bride was tracking to earn between $16 million and $18 million at the box office in North America on its opening weekend.

The Bride! was born out of a fantasy. "I'm not speaking for Mary Shelley," its writer-director Maggie Gyllenhaal recently ...

Walking into The Bride! , I honestly had no idea what kind of movie I was about to experience. The trailers looked intriguing, and I am a huge fan of the Frankenstein story, and I needed to see what ...

Maggie Gyllenhaal says the emotional core of its monster characters drew her to remake Bride of Frankenstein as the dark romance The Bride!.