Mary Shelley is often underestimated on screen – does The Bride! finally get her right?
- Written by Fiona Wilkes, PhD Candidate, School of Humanities, The University of Western Australia
Warner Bros.Ostensibly, Maggie Gyllenhaal’s second film, The Bride! offers a reimagining of the 1936 film The Bride of Frankenstein, in which the bride appears only briefly and does not say a single word.
This is undoubtedly rectified in Gyllenhaal’s version.
From the afterlife, Mary Shelley (Jessie Buckley) seeks a body through which...





