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The Bride! review: Everybody do the monster mash!

4/5 Jessie Buckley is a graveyard smash in this balls-to-the-wall retelling of Mary Shelley’s feminist fever dream

Evening Standard

The Bride! review – Jessie Buckley is electrifying as frizzy-haired, black-tongued monster’s wife

The actor has a blast as bride to Christian Bale’s lonely creature in Maggie Gyllenhaal’s darkly comic and gleefully bizarre reimagining of the 1935 film

The Guardian - UK

91 Years Later, The Definitive Horror Sequel Just Got The Reimagining No One Asked For

Maggie Gyllenhaal's 'The Bride!' is a stylish, garish, and soulless "sequel" to Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein.'

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The Bride! review – Jessie Buckley and Maggie Gyllenhaal’s punky revival isn’t as feminist as it thinks it is

3/5 The ‘Hamnet’ star reunites with her ‘Lost Daughter’ director on this playful and imaginative yet somewhat baffling experiment

The Independent UK

‘The Bride!’ Review: A Joyful Celebration of Female Rage and Adaptations

Punk rock love is the best kind

The Mary Sue

Christian Bale "cherry-picked" his version of Frankenstein's monster from the bits Mary Shelley and Boris Karloff "got right" for The Bride: "'Oh, apparently he's got a flat head'? That's wrong"

Exclusive: The Bride star Christian Bale opens up on his more human version of Frankenstein's monster

Total Film

‘The most quietly romantic town we have ever visited’ – the enduring charm of Chiavenna, Italy

Writers from George Eliot to Goethe put this Lombardy town on the map, then it fell out of fashion. Today it makes a picture-perfect alternative to the Italian lakes

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So you watched The Bride! trailer — here are 3 movies you need to stream before its release

Maggie Gyllenhaal's next movie The Bride! just released its first trailer, and it reminds me of these three classic movies – here's where to stream them.

TechRadar

Here Comes ‘The Bride!’ and Her New Trailer Is Perfect for ‘Frankenstein’ Fans

Here comes the Bride!

The Mary Sue

Guillermo del Toro says he tried to make Frankenstein for the last 20 years

The filmmaker spoke about how ‘everybody passed’ on making his newest film.

Evening Standard

Guillermo del Toro says key Frankenstein shot was inspired by experience of winning an Oscar

Del Toro won the Oscars for Best Director and Best Picture for 'The Shape of Water' in 2018

The Independent UK

Frankenstein Director Guillermo del Toro Reveals Brother Died Three Days Before Palm Springs Win

Guillermo del Toro revealed his brother died three days before accepting the Visionary Award for Frankenstein at Palm Springs Film Awards.

International Business Times UK

8 movies about our current relationship with AI

Films that feel like predictions and mirrors, revealing the themes of fear, trust, intimacy, and power shaping our relationship with AI today.

TechRadar

Children and teens roundup – the best new picture books and novels

Anointing a new Santa; a child refugee’s tale; a dangerous journey across frozen wastes; a YA roadtrip romance and more

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What Hi-Fi?

These 7 films have been dazzling us in our test room this month – and will give your home cinema system a workout

From nail-biting horror to superb superheroes

TechRadar

Troll 2 and Guillermo Del Toro's Frankenstein are the 'perfect fit', says Monsterverse director

Tis the season of innocent monsters caught up in human problems on Netflix... so why stream Frankenstein after Troll 2?

Reason

Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein Comes Perilously Close to Opposing Human Flourishing

In the Oscar winning director's new Netflix film, humanity is the real monster.

Cinemablend

How A Rude Tweet From Years Ago Helped Jacob Elordi ‘Arrogantly’ Insert Himself Into Guillermo Del Toro’s Frankenstein

That was a pretty snarky tweet.

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The Mary Sue

12 Movies To Watch If You Like ‘Frankenstein’

Here are some other movies you might enjoy across a wide spectrum of genres.

Cinemablend

Hot Take: I Think Frankenstein Is Guillermo Del Toro's Best Movie

I say this as a fan of his work.

The Independent UK

Seven European lakes you must visit at least once — from A-list favorites to under-the-radar gems

From the lake beloved by George Clooney to the place where Mary Shelley conceived Frankenstein, this list shows that heading inland on a European vacation pays dividends

Cinemablend

These Book-to-Screen Adaptations, Like Annihilation, Were Wildly Misunderstood — And That’s What Makes Them Brilliant

These film adaptations refused to color inside the lines.

Evening Standard

OPINION - Jacob Elordi's Frankenstein is sexy, articulate and emotionally sophisticated. It is the monster we need now

Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein, just out on Netflix, gives us a monster we might fall in love with. Jacob Elordi’s creature is articulate and emotionally sophisticated, worlds away from the grunting brute of horror movie tradition. It’s the latest in a horde of films resurrecting our favourite monsters with unnerving…

The Independent UK

Where is Netflix’s Frankenstein filmed? The UK stately homes behind the Gothic drama

‘I wanted it to feel like an old movie that was made in the heyday of Hollywood,’ said director Guillermo del Toro

Evening Standard

Frankenstein: how similar is Guillermo del Toro's film to the book?

From killing rampages to Mia Goth, we unpack the differences to Mary Shelley’s Gothic masterpiece

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