The Bride (2026)
Maggie Gyllenh aal's "The Bride" is a unique film that tries to tie female rage against the Patriarchy along with Mary Shelly's spirit who is angry & rage filled. It is the films framing piece that I have trouble with. By making Mary Shelly a vengeful sprit who is angry at the whole patriarch and who possesses the Bride and makes her lash out at the world seems to do a disservice to Mary Shelly's memory and her works that she accomplished. Such poems like: "To love in Solitude & mystery", "Absence", and "Ode to Ignorance" seem to have been combined with her book "Frankenstein". That is the way it feels to me, and one who is unfamiliar with her work could surmise that this is how Shelly felt and so her possessing the Bride would be of unrequited love and anger towards men, and truly that's the filmmaker's prerogative, but I'd prefer my B movies less heady and just plain simple. Frankenstein is lonel...