The Bride!
Maggie Gyllenhaal’s kaleidoscopic retelling of The Bride of Frankenstein does not want for ingenious ideas, and at times the script (written by Gyllenhaal) suffers from too many of those ingenious ideas. But The Bride! is a genuinely daring attempt to blend horror and romance. The revived corpse at the center of the story (and boy is she revived) is played by Jessie Buckley (who also plays the film’s narrator, Mary Shelley), and Christian Bale is her reanimated inamorata, “Frank.” Annette Bening and Gyllenhaal’s sibling Jake are along for the wild ride.
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About Joe Dante
Joe Dante is a lifelong film buff who turned his obsession into a career. He got his start cutting trailers for Roger Corman and later directed the hit movie Gremlins, as well as Gremlins 2: The New Batch, Innerspace and Small Soldiers for producer Steven Spielberg. His feature films include The Howling, Piranha, Matinee, The ‘burbs , Looney Tunes Back in Action, The Hole (first winner of the 3D Persol Award at the Venice Film Festival) and the zom-com Burying the Ex. His TV directing work includes: Police Squad, Amazing Stories, the HBO film The Second Civil War, the Masters of Horror titles Homecoming and The Screwfly Solution, and episodes of Eerie, Indiana, CSI: NY, Hawaii 5-0, Witches of East End, Legends of Tomorrow and Salem. His most recent big screen credit is an episode of the anthology film Nightmare Cinema. He’s currently consulting producer on the Amblin Television/Warner Bros. Animation hit, Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai.
Joe is also the frequent co-host of Trailers From Hell’s official podcast, The Movies That Made Me, available everywhere podcasts are streamed and downloaded!
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