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THE BRIDE – Hildur Guðnadóttir
Original Review by Jonathan Broxton
An ambitious, audacious, controversial, and polarizing film from actress-turned-director Maggie Gyllenhaal, The Bride is a genre-bending combination of classic Gothic horror and old Hollywood gangster movies. Very loosely – and I do mean very loosely – based on both the 1818 novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley and the 1935 film The Bride of Frankenstein directed by James Whale, it stars Christian Bale as the monster from the original novel who has, after a century of wandering, found himself in Chicago in 1936 and is now simply calling himself Frank. With the help of scientist Dr. Cornelia Euphronious (Annette Bening), Frank successfully reanimates the corpse of gangster’s moll Ida (Jessie Buckley), who was recently killed by the mob after unwittingly revealing the criminal activities of crime boss Lupino while possessed by the ghost of Mary Shelley. Frank convinces Ida – who has lost her memory – that she is his wife, but when the pair go on a crime spree, they are forced to go on the run with the police in hot pursuit. Just go with it. Read more…
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