Feel the feminine rage with 10 women-led creature features like Maggie Gyllenhaal's The Bride!

Maggie Gyllenhaal, Penélope Cruz, and Jessie Buckley at a photocall for 'The Bride!' in London. Maggie Gyllenhaal's The Bride ...

After years of talk about Hollywood reimagining The Bride of Frankenstein for the modern age, Maggie Gyllenhaal's The Bride! is among new 2026 movies out this week, and it’s time to talk about the ...

Polina Zelmanova receives funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council to support the research undertaken as part of her PhD.. Frankenstein’s female creature, also known as “the Bride”, was ...

“Here comes the motherf–ing Bride!” author Mary Shelley roars directly down the barrel in the opening minutes of Maggie Gyllenhaal’s batty, bold, and beautiful dissection of The Bride of Frankenstein.

The Bride! was born out of a fantasy. "I'm not speaking for Mary Shelley," its writer-director Maggie Gyllenhaal recently told the Los Angeles Times. "But there must have been some other, naughtier, ...

This image released by Warner Bros Entertainment shows Christian Bale, left, and Jessie Buckley in a scene from "The Bride!" (Warner Bros Entertainment via AP) Maggie Gyllenhaal’s “The Bride!” is a ...

Instead, her creation is an amalgam of disparate concepts, brought together in defiance of storytelling logic (and the opinions of test-screen audiences). Jessie Buckley stars as Ida, a gangster’s ...

Maggie Gyllenhaal’s “The Bride!” is a big, brash swing at a new “The Bride of Frankenstein” that struggles to cohere its many parts. But I’ll say this for it: It’s alive. Just months after Guillermo ...