...so is this movie any good?
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he Bride! is a 2026 American Gothic romance film written and directed by Maggie Gyllenhaal. It stars Jessie Buckley and Christian Bale alongside Peter Sarsgaard, Annette Bening, Jake Gyllenhaal, and Penélope Cruz. The film draws inspiration from the 1935 film Bride of Frankenstein, which was based on Mary Shelley's 1818 novel Frankenstein.
The Bride! had its world premiere at the Empire Leicester Square in London, on February 26, 2026. It was released in the United States by Warner Bros. Pictures on March 6. The film received generally mixed reviews from critics.
Speaking from the afterlife, Mary Shelley says she has a story she wanted to tell after Frankenstein, but could not due to her death. To tell it, she possesses Ida, a woman living in 1936 Chicago, who in her trance proceeds to discuss the criminal activities of mob boss Lupino. Lupino's henchmen Clyde and James find Ida at her home and kill her by pushing her down the stairs.
Elsewhere in Chicago, Frankenstein's monster arrives at the house of scientist Dr. Cornelia Euphronius, whose work on reanimation he has read, asking to create a companion for him. Euphronius, who nicknames the monster "Frank", is only convinced as Frank says he thought she was a mad scientist, and both dig out Ida from her grave and through machinery similar to Dr. Frankenstein's revive Ida.
Ida, who is amnesiac but retains vast knowledge and vocabulary that she at times speaks out in spurts, is at first resistant to Frank, but he uses the fact that she has no memory of her previous life to say she was his Bride and lost her memory in an accident. Both go out, watch a movie featuring Frank's favorite actor Ronnie Reed, and dance in a club, and as they leave two men harrass the Bride, leading them to be killed by Frank and the Bride. Frank tells the Bride to run away, but she decides to live life as a runaway with him. They stow away in a train to New York City, killing a security officer who finds them as the train passes through Indiana. In their New York hideout, when the Bride asks for a real name, Frank thinks up "Penelope Rogers", after Ginger Rogers, and she takes to it, asking to be called "Penny".
Detective Jake Wiles and his assistant Myrna Malloy investigate the murders, and eventually follow them to New York. Frank and the Bride cause chaos in a screening of Revolt of the Zombies, and as they run from both the police and an angry mob, hide in a high-class party. Disguised as a waiter, Frank finds Ronnie Reed, expresses his fandom, but is dismissed. An angry Frank proceeds to start dancing, the Bride joins him, and their dancing makes other partygoers enter a trance doing similar moves. The police then breaks into the party. The Bride holds Reed at gunpoint and starts ranting, during which Wiles starts to recognize her, and eventually the Bride and Frank run away after killing a policeman, hotwiring a car to leave the city.
The Bride's actions inspire women in New York to start rioting using her utterings as words of action, and once Lupino recognizes her in a newspaper, he kills James for failing to keep her dead and orders Clyde to work on it. While the Bride and Frank appear to have vanished, Malloy notices reports of murders and appearances of people similar to them have shown in cities where Reed's films were set, prompting her to ask Wiles to bring them to another one, Niagara Falls. They find the couple just as Frank asked the Bride to marry him. Wiles confronts the Bride calling her Ida, and she eventually shoots him in the foot before running away. As the couple drives away, Frank admits that he was just giving a cover-up story to make the Bride he never knew before reviving interested in him.
Wiles uses the injury to ask for his retirement, which his superiors only accepted if he appointed a replacement, so he gives his detective badge to Malloy. She eventually follows the couple to a drive-in theater in Illinois, where Frank hears his beloved say that after reflecting about her supposed past as "Ida" and her current experiences as "Penny", she will now answer to just "The Bride". Clyde then shoots Frank in the head, prompting the Bride to run away with his body. She drives straight to Euphronius, who says she does not feel capable of reviving Frank and just wants to study his decomposition. Clyde then breaks into the laboratory and shoots the Bride, as does the police who follow into the room, making Clyde escape through a window. Malloy arrives, shows her badge and says that remaining there will not help and they should look in the vicinity for Clyde. Once the police leaves, Euphronius, seemingly possessed by Shelley's spirit, decides to revive the couple. From outside Malloy sees bright lights shine from the laboratory, and inside the revived corpses hold hands.
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...so is this movie any good?
Hot Quality Content
73 views
Jake's book THE DEVIL'S LEAGUE is available now: tinyurl.com/tdljc
Want to watch our videos a week early? Become a Channel Member: @hotqualitycontent
he Bride! is a 2026 American Gothic romance film written and directed by Maggie Gyllenhaal. It stars Jessie Buckley and Christian Bale alongside Peter Sarsgaard, Annette Bening, Jake Gyllenhaal, and Penélope Cruz. The film draws inspiration from the 1935 film Bride of Frankenstein, which was based on Mary Shelley's 1818 novel Frankenstein.
The Bride! had its world premiere at the Empire Leicester Square in London, on February 26, 2026. It was released in the United States by Warner Bros. Pictures on March 6. The film received generally mixed reviews from critics.
Speaking from the afterlife, Mary Shelley says she has a story she wanted to tell after Frankenstein, but could not due to her death. To tell it, she possesses Ida, a woman living in 1936 Chicago, who in her trance proceeds to discuss the criminal activities of mob boss Lupino. Lupino's henchmen Clyde and James find Ida at her home and kill her by pushing her down the stairs.
Elsewhere in Chicago, Frankenstein's monster arrives at the house of scientist Dr. Cornelia Euphronius, whose work on reanimation he has read, asking to create a companion for him. Euphronius, who nicknames the monster "Frank", is only convinced as Frank says he thought she was a mad scientist, and both dig out Ida from her grave and through machinery similar to Dr. Frankenstein's revive Ida.
Ida, who is amnesiac but retains vast knowledge and vocabulary that she at times speaks out in spurts, is at first resistant to Frank, but he uses the fact that she has no memory of her previous life to say she was his Bride and lost her memory in an accident. Both go out, watch a movie featuring Frank's favorite actor Ronnie Reed, and dance in a club, and as they leave two men harrass the Bride, leading them to be killed by Frank and the Bride. Frank tells the Bride to run away, but she decides to live life as a runaway with him. They stow away in a train to New York City, killing a security officer who finds them as the train passes through Indiana. In their New York hideout, when the Bride asks for a real name, Frank thinks up "Penelope Rogers", after Ginger Rogers, and she takes to it, asking to be called "Penny".
Detective Jake Wiles and his assistant Myrna Malloy investigate the murders, and eventually follow them to New York. Frank and the Bride cause chaos in a screening of Revolt of the Zombies, and as they run from both the police and an angry mob, hide in a high-class party. Disguised as a waiter, Frank finds Ronnie Reed, expresses his fandom, but is dismissed. An angry Frank proceeds to start dancing, the Bride joins him, and their dancing makes other partygoers enter a trance doing similar moves. The police then breaks into the party. The Bride holds Reed at gunpoint and starts ranting, during which Wiles starts to recognize her, and eventually the Bride and Frank run away after killing a policeman, hotwiring a car to leave the city.
The Bride's actions inspire women in New York to start rioting using her utterings as words of action, and once Lupino recognizes her in a newspaper, he kills James for failing to keep her dead and orders Clyde to work on it. While the Bride and Frank appear to have vanished, Malloy notices reports of murders and appearances of people similar to them have shown in cities where Reed's films were set, prompting her to ask Wiles to bring them to another one, Niagara Falls. They find the couple just as Frank asked the Bride to marry him. Wiles confronts the Bride calling her Ida, and she eventually shoots him in the foot before running away. As the couple drives away, Frank admits that he was just giving a cover-up story to make the Bride he never knew before reviving interested in him.
Wiles uses the injury to ask for his retirement, which his superiors only accepted if he appointed a replacement, so he gives his detective badge to Malloy. She eventually follows the couple to a drive-in theater in Illinois, where Frank hears his beloved say that after reflecting about her supposed past as "Ida" and her current experiences as "Penny", she will now answer to just "The Bride". Clyde then shoots Frank in the head, prompting the Bride to run away with his body. She drives straight to Euphronius, who says she does not feel capable of reviving Frank and just wants to study his decomposition. Clyde then breaks into the laboratory and shoots the Bride, as does the police who follow into the room, making Clyde escape through a window. Malloy arrives, shows her badge and says that remaining there will not help and they should look in the vicinity for Clyde. Once the police leaves, Euphronius, seemingly possessed by Shelley's spirit, decides to revive the couple. From outside Malloy sees bright lights shine from the laboratory, and inside the revived corpses hold hands.
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