THE BRIDE!

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In 1930s Chicago, groundbreaking scientist Dr. Euphronious brings a murdered young woman back to life to be a companion for Frankenstein's monster. What happens next is beyond what either of them could ever have imagined.

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Concocted with all the restraint of a mad scientist's experiment, THE BRIDE! lurches in so many different creative directions that the overall effect is both sloppy and inspired.

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Wendy Ide

Observer (UK)

17h

This gorgeously debauched film amounts to a chaotic, an uneven but oddly beautiful collision of ideas, all captured by an agitated camera as electrically charged as the life force that reanimates the bride herself.

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Thelma Adams

AARP Movies for Grownups

19h

5/5

An electric shock of a movie.

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Larushka Ivan-Zadeh

Daily Mail (UK)

19h

2/5

Not a monstrous disaster. More a case of something old, something new, something borrowed – but lacking glue.

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Pedro Luis Graterol

InBetweenDrafts

24m

4/10

An intriguing but unwieldy creation, one that gestures toward something bold without ever fully bringing it to life.

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Alise Chaffins

MacGuffin or Meaning (Substack)

2h

2.5/5

Maybe on a rewatch there would be more to gather from this movie, but in the bride’s words, "I prefer not to."

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Eddie Harrison

film-authority.com

6h

2/5

…The Bride! is an insanely ambitious, wildly undisciplined movie that never begins to make good on the promise of its ridiculously overqualified cast….

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Elliot M

1h

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Aidan Proko

8h

This movie felt like Maggie Gyllenhaal trying to say something about women’s liberation and toppling the patriarchy, but the mish-mash of tones, plots, and character motivations that are said to us but not truly felt without Jessie Buckley’s schizophrenic performance felt like a director looking at what Todd Philips did with Joker and being like, “Ok let’s do that but with Bride of Frankenstein.” Buckley and Christian Bale have great chemistry as these lost monsters but I cannot help but think the script was undercooked because it felt unfinished. To those who will compare it to Joker: Folie à Deux, I will say this movie is slightly better, but only marginally as I just prefer the 1930’s Bonnie and Clyde vibes and Lynchian aspects that Gyllenhaal tries to emulate. Whether or not she succeeds in that is up to you. But it certainly didn’t feel like it worked for me.

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pauline

11h

dark, twisted, romantic,fantastic

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Thomas

12h

Best movie I’ve ever seen!

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PARTYBOI8512

14h

I get da Concept of the movie 2 monsters defending humanity but, it was doll .

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Daniel

14h

The Bride! Is an interesting reimagining of the Bride of Frankenstein story. Jessie Buckley gives a wildly electric and crazy performance as The Bride. Its visually stunning and theres a lot of appealing things in the film but once its all said and done is just a mediocre story and mediocre film. Wait for streaming!

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Synopsis

In 1930s Chicago, groundbreaking scientist Dr. Euphronious brings a murdered young woman back to life to be a companion for Frankenstein's monster. What happens next is beyond what either of them could ever have imagined.

Director: Maggie Gyllenhaal
Producer: Maggie Gyllenhaal, Emma Tillinger Koskoff, Talia Kleinhendler, Osnat Handelsman-Keren
Screenwriter: Maggie Gyllenhaal
Distributor: Warner Bros. Pictures
Production Co: First Love Films, In the Current Company
Rating: R (Sexual Content/Nudity|Language|Strong/Bloody Violent Content)
Genre: Horror, Romance, Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Mar 6, 2026, Wide
Runtime: 2h 6m
Aspect Ratio: Digital 2.39:1

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