Maggie Gyllenhaal unleashes a storm of punk rock horror with ‘THE BRIDE!’
“The dead have something to say… and I’m saying it.”
Ready yourself for a whirlwind explosion of monsters, chaos and the golden age of film noir horror, as Maggie Gyllenhaal dials up the volts and delivers an utter livewire with THE BRIDE! her punk rock resurrection tale of death and the afterlife as she jolts new life into The Bride of Frankenstein, and in the process delivers a spectacle that will be one of cinema’s wildest spectacles.
Watch the all-new trailer for THE BRIDE! below:
Here’s the official synopsis:
A lonely Frankenstein (Bale) travels to 1930s Chicago to ask groundbreaking scientist Dr. Euphronious (five-time Oscar nominee Annette Bening) to create a companion for him. The two revive a murdered young woman, and The Bride (Buckley) is born. What ensues is beyond what either of them imagined: Murder! Possession! A wild and radical cultural movement! And outlaw lovers in a wild and combustible romance!
In a radical reimagining of the legendary character of The Bride of Frankenstein, first portrayed by Elsa Lanchester in 1935, director Maggie Gyllenhaal discovers a whole new side of the character through Jessie Buckley. And what is promised by this new trailer is a cinema experience that utterly flaunts what you know of this character, and kicks convention and expectation out the window.
In wanting to tell the story of THE BRIDE!, Gyllenhaal sought to get discover ‘the monster inside all of us’, and was intrigued to discover more about the Bride herself, what her own thoughts, dreams and terrors might be, and you see that present in the new trailer as this is a character who is thrown into a storm, and then embraces all the fun, mania ans chaos that results from being the walking dead!
Not only do we get to see Jessie Buckley and Christian Bale amp things up as both The Bride and Frankenstein’s Monster in the picture, but THE BRIODE! turns the volume all the way up on its presentation and spectacle, as it takes audiences back to a neon-soaked 1936 era of gangsters and troublemakers, and Gyllenhaal bedazzles the movie with its own flair and combustible atmosphere that is reminiscent of the hard-driving punk rock of the 1970s, and it’s a scream!
Giving further context to audiences with Perri Nemiroff in a recent webinar chat concerning THE BRIDE!, Gyllenhaal stated that if audiences wanted to understand the mood and presence that’s she’s bringing to this picture that they should listen to Siouxsie and the Banshees cover of Iggy Pop’s ‘The Passenger’, and that this song evokes her feeling for the character of The Bride, saying “because just vibe-wise, I think it fits right in with the movie. And also, I don’t know, she’s presented, The Bride, The Bride of Frankenstein, as the passenger when that is absolutely not what she is. She’s driving this story.”
THE BRIDE! is shaping up to be a cinematic storm of radical neo-noir horror, and audiences will be primed for something very special when it arrives in IMAX and cinemas on March 5.
Image: Warner Brothers Pictures
