The first reactions to Maggie Gyllenhaal's The Bride! confirm that the filmmaker takes "big swings" in the unconventional take on a horror classic. Starring Jessie Buckley as The Bride and Christian ...

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 ...

It isn’t much of a hot take to suggest this, but the only classic Universal monster movie better than James Whale’s 1931 Frankenstein is his 1935 sequel, The Bride of Frankenstein. In fact, the only ...

The Bride! starts with Buckley conveying Mary Shelley, the author of Frankenstein, in an inspired sequence that is best left to be discovered than analyzed in a review like this. We meet Buckley’s ...

From left, Christian Bale and Jessie Buckley in writer-director Maggie Gyllenhaal's "The Bride!" (Courtesy Warner Bros. Pictures) Editor's note: This story is an excerpt from WBUR's weekly arts and ...

“She finds herself in such an insane situation,” Gyllenhaal said in a press conference promoting the film. “Having been brought back from the dead without her consent to be the wife of someone that ...