Nearly a century after many of them graced the big screen for the first time, many of the Universal Monsters endure as cinema icons. Including the Bride Of Frankenstein, despite only having mere minutes of screentime in the film named after her . And while those creatures always had something sympathetic about them – particularly Frankenstein, and his Bride – there’s plenty more of the good and the bad to explore nearly 100 years on.

Enter The Bride! , the latest film from Maggie Gyllenhaal as writer-director, turning the notion of the Bride Of Frankenstein into a film focused around the Bride herself, transplanted into ‘30s Chicago mobster territory. It’s all about getting into the monster lurking in us all. “I believe that every single one of us has a monstrous vein inside us. A

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