Maggie Gyllenhaal’s “The Bride!” imagines an empowered mate for the monster. We look back at other memorable cinematic ...

Jessie Buckley goes big in The Bride!, Maggie Gyllenhaal's messy, audacious punk rock monster mash that overcomes its flaws ...

Meanwhile, Frankenstein’s monster (Christian Bale) has become so agonizingly lonely in his century of undead existence that he seeks out the eccentric Dr. Euphronius (a wonderfully wry Annette Bening) ...

Maggie Gyllenhaal turns “The Bride!” into a big, wild studio film that reimagines the Bride of Frankenstein as a voice of ...

A 1930s gothic romance set in Chicago? Say less. Maggie Gyllenhaal puts a feral, punk rock spin on a beloved cultural figure ...

Perhaps you walked away from Wuthering Heights complaining that it wasn’t quite weird enough? Or maybe you trudged through ...

Even so, it was far from the first time that these classic Universal monsters were utilized for social commentary. Over a decade ago, Showtime’s Gothic take on classic characters came about in Penny ...

Maggie Gyllenhaal's radical take on the Bride of Frankenstein story takes a middle finger to the patriarchy. Plus there are ...

Maggie Gyllenhaal's movie is a scrappy feminist take-off on the "Frankenstein" myth that could have used more storytelling juice.

The film stars Jessie Buckley as a woman who is murdered and then brought back to life as the companion of Frankenstein's ...

Maggie Gyllenhaal's exquisite reimagining of the Frankenstein legend is an exceptional monster movie and one of the year's best films.

Peter Sarsgaard, Penélope Cruz, Annette Bening and Jake Gyllenhaal also appear in this punk-rock exhumation of a character only briefly introduced in Mary Shelley’s novel.