Damian McCarthy’s tale books an American novelist into an inn with a witch in the honeymoon suite, shady staff and a forest-dwelling eccentric who chugs a magic mushroom potion.
Mary Shelley, wife of poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, supposedly wrote “Frankenstein or, The Modern Prometheus” while on a trip to visit the poet Lord Byron, staying outside Lake Geneva with friends. Rain ...
Pitched as a sequel to the novel Frankenstein by its onscreen author Mary Shelley, The Bride! is a riotous story about the monster and his corpse bride on a road trip to visit cities, watch films and ...
Writing the Lookingglass Theatre play has helped the second-generation Asian American understand previously untold parts of his family history.
Some movies don’t care about anything but their target audience, and that’s okay. “Reminders of Him” is one of those movies. It’s perfectly designed for fans of weepy romantic ...
Never before has an exclamation point promised so much. And in Maggie Gyllenhaal’s The Bride!—a clunking, clumsy rage against the machine—it sure as hell delivers. For all the downfalls of this ...
Writer and director Maggie Gyllenhaal tells IndieWire about using the tools of genre to create a world both '80s and 1930s for 'The Bride!' ...
Jessie Buckley plays both undead Mary Shelley and the gun moll her spirit possesses in a riot grrl take on the 1935 Bride of Frankenstein.
In the opening beats of The Bride!, the second feature written and directed by Maggie Gyllenhaal, the ghost of Mary Shelley (Jessie Buckley) mutters to herself from some dark corner of the ...
In the opening beats of The Bride!, the second feature written and directed by Maggie Gyllenhaal, the ghost of Mary Shelley (Jessie Buckley) mutters to herself from some dark corner of the ...
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 ...
Embodying this fascinating patchwork of ideas good and bad is the Irish actress Jessie Buckley, who will soon find herself in ...