In a world of hot monsters and messy love affairs, gothic romance films have truly reclaimed their stake in the hearts of modern viewers. From The Creature in Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein, to the ...

The great thing about adapting classic literature or rebooting IP for a modern audience is you can keep hooking it up to the mains and jolting it back to life. As any horror fan knows, the dead often ...

The Bride lying on the table in the lab - Warner Bros. Let's be clear on one thing: "The Bride!" is a wild ride. Courtesy of director Maggie Gyllenhaal, it offers up a frenzied take on the "Bride of ...

Verdict: Maggie Gyllenhaal’s "The Bride!" reimagines Bride of Frankenstein as a gothic romance about identity, agency and love. Set in 1930s Chicago, it follows resurrected Ida and lonely Frank in a ...

IN THE 2008 FILM BRONSON, the titular character, a prisoner played by Tom Hardy, is told by a visiting art teacher that his art—a series of faintly grotesque yet charmingly amateurish and immature ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover Hollywood and entertainment. The Bride! also earned a “fresh” critic score from Caryn James of the BBC, who writes in her ...

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 ...

No less imaginative is the importation of the story from Europe to midcentury America. This allows the film to include among its sights rollicking nightclubs, decadent parties, and grand movie palaces ...

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 ...

Ambition can be a curse as much as a blessing. And it dooms The Bride!, a revisionist take on James Whale’s 1935 Universal horror classic that—with every flamboyant twirl, guttural scream, and ...