How The Bride! ’s Hair and Makeup Paid Homage to the Original Without Copy-and-Pasting

Director Maggie Gyllenhaal shares how she adapted the bride's iconic look to reclaim the character's voice—both visually and ...

Mary Shelley is often underestimated on screen – does The Bride! finally get her right?

Ostensibly, Maggie Gyllenhaal’s second film, The Bride! offers a reimagining of the 1936 film The Bride of Frankenstein, in which the bride appears only briefly and does not say a single word. This is ...
The New York Times

The Many Brides of Frankenstein

Maggie Gyllenhaal’s “The Bride!” imagines an empowered mate for the monster. We look back at other memorable cinematic versions. By Robert Ito For Maggie Gyllenhaal, the director, writer, and ...