Maggie Gyllenhaal’s “The Bride!” is a big, brash swing at a new “The Bride of Frankenstein” that struggles to cohere its many parts. But I’ll say this for it: It’s alive. Just months after Guillermo del Toro presented his lavish “Frankenstein,

Maggie Gyllenhaal recalls test screenings of 'The Bride!' led to some questioning the sexual violence in the film, including studio brass.

Writer-director Maggie Gyllenhaal’s gonzo revisionist take on James Whale’s 1935 “Bride of Frankenstein” is a "hellzapoppin’ cacophony of silly ideas and mad movie love, overhauling the queer-coded camp classic into a funhouse feminist manifesto,

"I’m surprised by how many people are giving me their strong opinions," the woman wrote on Reddit Erin Clack is a Staff Editor for PEOPLE. She has been writing about fashion, parenting and pop culture for more than 15 years. Getty A bride-to-be has ...