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 ...

At just 18, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley wrote her first and most famous novel, Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. 208 years later, Shelley's story is still captivating us, inspiring hundreds 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 for it: It’s alive. Just months after Guillermo ...

Polina Zelmanova receives funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council to support the research undertaken as part of her PhD.. Frankenstein’s female creature, also known as “the Bride”, was ...

From Guillermo del Toro’s latest Hollywood blockbuster to the Hotel Transylvania franchise, Frankenstein’s monster is never far from the public eye. Although the creature first appeared in Mary ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It’s alive, but it’s not exactly showing signs of life. “The Bride!,” director Maggie Gyllenhaal’s punk rock, feminist ...

"I think that maniacs are the best people on earth, and she's a maniac," Bale says of his costar Nigel Smith is the Senior Movies News Editor for PEOPLE. He is an experienced culture editor and writer ...