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The Bride!



IMDb Info

Release Year: 2026
Runtime: 2h 6m
Country: USA, France
Language: English, Spanish
Genre Tags: Drama, Horror, Romance
Plot Summary: In 1930s Chicago, Frankenstein asks Dr. Euphronius to help create a companion. They give life to a murdered woman as the Bride, sparking romance, police interest, and radical social change.

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phancy.com rating:

phancy.com notes: The middle loses its focus, and I was never quite sure what message I was supposed to receive, other than "women are pissed off at the patriarchy." But maybe that's the only message I really needed! It is a compelling Bonnie & Clyde thrill ride throughout. The visuals! Costumes, lighting, framing! Jessie Buckley is a force of nature, the movie loves her, and you will, too.


Outside Reviews:

Tomris Laffly
3 out of 4 stars - rogerebert.com

For a film this uninhibited and varied, Gyllenhaal's ending feels too tidily feminist in an unsophisticated, you-go-girl kind of way that comic book adaptations have been guilty of in the past decade. While she tries to bring the monster inside all of us out of the shadows, she errs on the side of the basic that feels out of step with the world that Mary Shelley conjured up. Still, "The Bride!" is big and risky in a different way, a fantastical creative explosion you can't look away from.


Luke Hicks
Grade: B+ - The Bride! is a bold, bloody, feminist Frankenstein freakout

Gyllenhaal never tones down the brutality, ripping us through bloody tongues, heads, and bodies-in cinematographer Lawrence Sher's fit of gorgeously captured violence-until the frenzied finish. Likewise, Shelley sticks around until the bitter end, cackling her way through the story she puppeteers. As another English novelist once wrote, "The dead don't die. They look on and help."