The Bride! (now streaming on VOD platforms like Amazon Prime Video) is destined to be the most… something… film of 2026. Batshit? Misguided? All-over-the-place? Incoherent? Singular? Weirdly entertaining? Fascinating? Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes and yes, perhaps. Maggie Gyllenhaal follows up her masterful 2021 directorial debut, The Lost Daughter, with a wild, loony take on The Bride of Frankenstein starring recent Hamnet Oscar winner Jessie Buckley, with Christian Bale co-starring as Frankenstein’s Monster, here dubbed simply Frank, which will rile those of you who are a little tight in the ass. The film was a smashing flop, grossing $24 million worldwide against a reported $80 million budget, so perhaps the audacious trailer – bearing the tagline “Here comes the motherf—ing bride!” – turned people off, or it arrived too soon on the heels of Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein, or word got
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