In the 200-odd years since a teenager dreamed up a spooky story on a stormy night in the Swiss Alps, hundreds of others have put their spin on Mary Shelley’s tale of a scientist who bypasses nature to ...

Warner Bros has released one final clip from The Bride! displaying Frank (Christian Bale; American Psycho) and his reanimated bride (Jessie Buckley), who are the Bonnie and Clyde of Maggie ...

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 ...

There are more movies based on Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein” than nearly any other story ever published. But something’s missing from a lot of them. Most “Frankenstein” movies have a mad scientist, ...

When Ann Messina Freeman, Carolyn Bessette’s mother, gets up to give a toast on the night before her daughter’s wedding, nobody is entirely prepared for what she’s about to say. In the way the scene ...

Maggie Gyllenhaal’s second film behind the camera is an inspired reinvention of “Bride of Frankenstein” starring Jessie Buckley and Christian Bale as monstrous lovers on the run. “The Bride!” follows ...

Maggie Gyllenhaal's "The Bride" is an ambitious but disjointed take on Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein" set in the 1930s. The performances by Bale and Buckley are highlighted as stellar and a primary ...

A ferocious Jessie Buckley and a heartbreaking Christian Bale star in a bold film of "huge scope and ambition" that is "loaded with surprises". If you were a powerless woman in 1936 Chicago killed by ...

Just months after Guillermo del Toro presented his lavish “Frankenstein,” Gyllenhaal, in her follow-up to her excellent 2021 directorial debut, “The Lost Daughter,” has set her sights on reimagining ...

Campy excess is the name of the game in Stuart Gordon’s celebrated 1985 cult hit Re-Animator. His comedy-horror movie has all the hallmarks of a schlocky zombie movie, with tawdry special effects and ...

It’s alive! I’m talking about the legend of “Frankenstein.” I thought the reanimated corpse of it came close to slipping off life support in Guillermo del Toro’s “Frankenstein,” a movie that, to me, ...

Maggie Gyllenhaal’s “The Bride!” hits theaters this weekend, another take on the Frankenstein story that’s more about other Frankenstein movies than the original text itself. “Bride of Frankenstein” ...