There was a doctor in Chicago years ago named Victor Frankenstein, and one of his jobs was finding medical specimens. When ...

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Maggie Gyllenhaal's latest film, 'The Bride!', explores agency, identity and feminism in the messy 1930s world of monsters and men.

For three seasons, Showtime's Penny Dreadful explored the characters of Gothic fiction, including Victor Frankenstein, Larry Talbot, and Dracula.

Mashing together a century of cinema’s monsters and horror literature even before that, nobody’s gonna say about The Bride! that it doesn’t come to play, and play hard—nowhere more emphatic than in ...

Maggie Gyllenhaal’s follow-up to “The Lost Daughter” is an incomprehensible movie mash-up.

With the release of “The Bride!” we asked scholars, film curators and experts in Mary Shelley’s work why so few women have tackled the Frankenstein story — and the impact that has on how we make sense ...

Maggie Gyllenhaal’s imaginative adaptation of the Frankenstein story, starring Jessie Buckley and Christian Bale, leaves its premise and its principles undeveloped.

It’s alive! I’m talking about the legend of “Frankenstein.” I thought the reanimated corpse of it came close to slipping off life support in Guillermo del Toro’s “Frankenstein,” a movie that, to me, ...

Maggie Gyllenhaal's "The Bride" is an ambitious but disjointed take on Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein" set in the 1930s. The performances by Bale and Buckley are highlighted as stellar and a primary ...