The Bride of Frankenstein lives for only five minutes or so of her 1935 movie. She never speaks a word. A hiss. A scream. And, with that, her creators recognise her abhorrence and snuff out instantly ...
Canadian-born reporter and editor Adam Symchuk has been writing on the topic of film, TV, and literature for over a decade. Starting with an emphasis on Asian film, literature and manga, his love of ...
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 ...
If you love classic movies, THE BRIDE! is pure delight, fun with a brain that is a treat deluxe for those who love both classic movies and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s original book “Frankenstein.” ...
Maggie Gyllenhaal’s Bride of Frankenstein tale The Bride!, starring Jessie Buckley and Christian Bale, will become the latest film to feature the classic character when it opens on the big screen this ...
A cinematic obsessive with the filmic palate of a starving raccoon, Rob London will watch pretty much anything once. With a mind like a steel trap, he's an endless fount of movie and TV trivia, borne ...
Welcome back to our queer film retrospective, “A Gay Old Time.” In this week’s column, with Frankenstein riff The Bride! hitting theaters, let’s revisit 1935’s subtextually queer horror classic Bride ...
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 ...
With her audacious sophomore feature “The Bride!” writer/director Maggie Gyllenhaal offers a topical-ish take on “Bride of Frankenstein”: what if “the Joker” was “brat”? (To borrow Charli XCX’s ...