The Bride doesn’t consent to be brought back after death, and in fact, doesn’t for much of the time know that’s what’s happened to her. The monster, who eventually opts to go by Frank, tells her she’s been in an accident and her memory is gone,

Writer-director Maggie Gyllenhaal’s gonzo revisionist take on James Whale’s 1935 “Bride of Frankenstein” is a "hellzapoppin’ cacophony of silly ideas and mad movie love, overhauling the queer-coded camp classic into a funhouse feminist manifesto,

Maggie Gyllenhaal recalls test screenings of 'The Bride!' led to some questioning the sexual violence in the film, including studio brass.

Big swings usually lead to big misses.

It's taken almost a century to truly bring the Bride of Frankenstein back to the big screen with The Bride!. Unless you count Helena Bonham Carter stumbling around engulfed in flames in the 1990s or the flop 80s flick The Bride — and not many people do — then you have to go back as far as 1935's all-time Gothic classic Bride of Frankenstein for a

"I’m surprised by how many people are giving me their strong opinions," the woman wrote on Reddit Erin Clack is a Staff Editor for PEOPLE. She has been writing about fashion, parenting and pop culture for more than 15 years. Getty A bride-to-be has ...