Maggie Gyllenhaal, The Bride

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Maggie Gyllenhaal on How She Crafted Jessie Buckley and Christian Bale’s Looks in ‘The Bride!’
The filmmaker broke down how she put her own spin on Frankenstein and The Bride while at the film's New York premiere on Tuesday.

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‘The Bride!' review: Maggie Gyllenhaal's genre mashup feels stitched together
The Bride! Review: Maggie Gyllenhaal's Beautiful, Messy Monster Movie Is An Unhinged Delight
Movie Review: Maggie Gyllenhaal's 'The Bride!' is a Frankenstein riff with a pulse
Maggie Gyllenhaal’s “The Bride!” is a big, brash swing at a new “The Bride of Frankenstein” that struggles to cohere its many parts.

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‘The Bride!’ Review: Maggie Gyllenhaal Reinvents The ‘Frankenstein’ Story And Gives Sensational Jessie Buckley And Christian Bale A Monster Mashup Like No Other
The director and ‘The Bride!’ Maggie Gyllenhaal and Jessie Buckley dare you to meet your monster
‘The Bride!’ Review: Jessie Buckley and Christian Bale Are Magnetic Monsters in Maggie Gyllenhaal’s Lumbering Punk Horror Trip
He’s someone born to be played by Christian Bale . Bale makes him winningly dim but just aware enough to have a conversation, with a sluggish, post-lobotomy voice that sounds like Bale doing his imper...

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The Bride! Review: Maggie Gyllenhaal Stitched Together The Most Fun, Feral And Fantastic Frankenstein Movie Yet
Maggie Gyllenhaal unleashes ‘The Bride!’ in New York

‘The Bride!’ Is a Monster Mash-Up of Sex, Violence, Resistance, and Ideas. Many, Many Ideas

Maggie Gyllenhaal's radical take on the Bride of Frankenstein story takes a middle finger to the patriarchy. Plus there are musical numbers!

Is The Bride! A Love Story? Christian Bale Has Some Harsh Thoughts About The Romance Genre

Maggie Gyllenhaal’s take on The Bride of Frankenstein officially comes alive among a slew of new 2026 movie releases coming to theaters this weekend. If you’ve been wondering whether The Bride! is a romance between two “monsters” brought to life by electricity, we have Christian Bale’s take on the question to ponder.

Maggie Gyllenhaal Says ‘The Bride’ Test Screenings Criticized Film’s Sexual Violence and Warner Bros. Boss Told Her ‘You Can’t Have Frankenstein Lick Black Vomit Off ...

Maggie Gyllenhaal says the boss of Warner Bros. forced her to cut out of "The Bride" a scene where Frankenstein licks Vomit off someone's neck.

Frankenstein Couldn't ‘Lick Black Vomit Off The Bride’s Neck’ And Other Wild Studio Notes Maggie Gyllenhaal Received

The Bride! marks her first foray into large-scale studio filmmaking after the critical success of The Lost Daughter. And while navigating notes about vomit-licking Frankensteins and audience sensitivities might sound chaotic, Gyllenhaal insists the process was challenging in a productive way.