Maggie Gyllenhaal’s Bride of Frankenstein tale The Bride!, starring Jessie Buckley and Christian Bale, will become the latest film to feature the classic character when it opens on the big screen this ...
From Guillermo del Toro’s latest Hollywood blockbuster to the Hotel Transylvania franchise, Frankenstein’s monster is never far from the public eye. Although the creature first appeared in Mary ...
This article contains spoilers for "The Bride!" Maggie Gyllenhaal's new film "The Bride!" is a jazz-era reimagining of both Mary Shelley's seminal 1818 novel "Frankenstein," and an extrapolation of ...
“I am alone, and miserable; man will not associate with me; but one as deformed and horrible as myself would not deny herself to me. My companion must be of the same species, and have the same defects ...
It’s been over two centuries since Victor Frankenstein’s monster first opened his eyes, and just shy of one since Boris Karloff’s turn as the Creature cemented the bolt-wearing behemoth as a horror ...
A cinematic obsessive with the filmic palate of a starving raccoon, Rob London will watch pretty much anything once. With a mind like a steel trap, he's an endless fount of movie and TV trivia, borne ...
Maggie Gyllenhaal’s “The Bride!” imagines an empowered mate for the monster. We look back at other memorable cinematic versions. By Robert Ito For Maggie Gyllenhaal, the director, writer, and ...
Just like how women’s stories matter (they just do!), movie monsters are gayyyyy, they just are! Compelling beasties who get ostracized by the rest of the world because of the way they were born have ...
Welcome back to our queer film retrospective, “A Gay Old Time.” In this week’s column, with Frankenstein riff The Bride! hitting theaters, let’s revisit 1935’s subtextually queer horror classic Bride ...