
Sold as a Bonnie and Clyde-esque take on a Universal Monsters movie, it stands to reason that new horror-romance The Bride is... pretty violent. Its '30s setting makes way for gun-toting gangsters while Christian Bale's "Frank" and his newly resurrected lover have intolerant punks and the police to worry about.
Given all that and the fact it's a big-budget flick, writer-director Maggie Gyllenhaal says they "tested and tested it" with audiences before finalizing the finished product – and that some scenes were "pulled back" after some viewers dubbed them too nasty.