At just 18, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley wrote her first and most famous novel, Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. 208 years later, Shelley's story is still captivating us, inspiring hundreds of ...
"Here comes the motherf***ing bride!" insists a spectral Mary Shelley, the quasi-narrator of Maggie Gyllenhaal's The Bride!, who lives solely in the conscience of our titular character. Frankenstein's ...
Is there a single work of horror fiction more influential than Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein? The 1818 novel — in which the titular scientist successfully manages to reanimate the dead — has been ...
The premise of The Bride! is hidden from its advertising. Writer-director Maggie Gyllenhaal opens on Mary Shelley (an acidic Jessie Buckley) stuck in a black-and-white purgatory of sorts, only her ...
Ambition can be a curse as much as a blessing. And it dooms The Bride!, a revisionist take on James Whale’s 1935 Universal horror classic that—with every flamboyant twirl, guttural scream, and ...