The Bride (2025)

[Alex...]

Title: The Bride

Genre: Thriller, Horror

Director: Maggie Gyllenhaal

Cast: Christian Bale, Penélope Cruz, Jessie Buckley, Peter Sarsgaard

Release: 2025

Plot: A remake of 1935’s Bride of Frankenstein. "A lonely Frankenstein [the monster] travels to 1930s Chicago to seek the aid of a Dr. Euphronius in creating a companion for himself. The two reinvigorate a murdered young woman and the Bride is born. She is beyond what either of them intended, igniting a combustible romance, the attention of the police and a wild and radical social movement."

 

[Alex...]

Annette Bening Boards Maggie Gyllenhaal’s Frankenstein Movie At Warner Bros Opposite Jessie Buckley, Christian Bale, Penélope Cruz & Peter Sarsgaard

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[Alex...]

First look

 

[Joe Wong]

This current slate of "Frankenstein"-themed films (Poor Things, Lisa Frankenstein, The Bride) is reminiscent of the body-swapping films (Like Father, Like Son, Big, Vice Versa) in 1987/88.

 

[Winston T. Boogie]

Why do they always make the mistake of calling the monster, Frankenstein? He's the monster, Frankenstein is the doctor, the mad scientist. They get it wrong even in the plot synopsis in the first post and they keep doing it over and over in the articles about the film. Really?

 

[Winston T. Boogie]

Also, strange image of the bride, did she chew on a pen and have it explode in her mouth?