The Bride is the latest female horror movie monster to hit the big screen, but she isn't the only great one over the years in horror history.

Director Maggie Gyllenhaal is throwing her hat into the ring with a new Frankenstein movie.

Christian Bale co-stars in Maggie Gyllenhaal's gorgeous Frankenstein's monster of a movie that nearly flies apart at the seams.

Peter Sarsgaard, Penélope Cruz, Annette Bening and Jake Gyllenhaal also appear in this punk-rock exhumation of a character only briefly introduced in Mary Shelley’s novel.

Maggie Gyllenhaal's The Bride! makes multiple references to Frankenstein films of the past, but one Easter egg proves how smart she and her movie truly are.

If there were a checklist of things female characters are supposed to do in order to be "empowered," The Bride! ticks them all. And yet.