You don’t always to get to see fresh and exciting in the mainstream, although Hollywood does seem to be catching onto the fact that original thought (even if based on older source material) can be absolutely worth creating, and THE BRIDE! certainly falls into creative that bracket.

Written and Directed by Maggie Gyllenhaal – and based on Mary Shelley’s classic, the film stars Jessie Buckley, Christian Bale, Peter Sarsgaard, Annette Bening, Jake Gyllenhaal, and Penélope Cruz, and is promising to be a bold, iconoclastic take on one of the world’s most compelling stories.

In THE BRIDE!, we follow a lonely Frankenstein (Bale) who travels to 1930s Chicago to ask scientist Dr. Euphronious (Annette Bening) to create a companion for him. Whilst there, they revive a murdered young woman and The Bride (Buckley) is born. What ensues is beyond what either of them imagined: Murder! Possession! Here’s that fun, brutal trailer:

Gyllenhaal is supported behind the camera by director of photography Lawrence Sher, production designer Karen Murphy, editor Dylan Tichenor, music supervisor Randall Poster, composer Hildur Gudnadóttir and costume designer Sandy Powell.

The Bride! will be released in the UK on 6th March 2026 by Warner Bros. Pictures