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Debuting at CinemaCon 2025 was one of the buzziest movies of 2026 — a remake of a horror classic with a distinctly modern feel… so much so that the new title re-centers the entire narrative and adds an exclamation point for emphasis. Get ready for Maggie Gyllenhaal’s remake of the Bride of Frankenstein, retitled simply, The Bride!

The movie is centered around one simple question, in Gyllenhaal’s mind: Given that the Bride was originally created because Frankenstein just wanted any bride to marry the monster, ““what happens if [Frankenstein’s] bride that comes back is beyond his wildest imagination and doesn’t fit into the box that he imagined for her or the box that the world’s imagined for her?”

The director said that she wanted the project to “pop and big [and] radical,” even though she didn’t know what that meant at the time — until a series of events led her to watch the original 1935 Bride of Frankenstein movie, which inspired her to remake what is being described as a more “punk” take on the idea.

“In the original ‘Bride of Frankenstein,’ the bride is in the movie for about three minutes, and she doesn’t speak,” the writer/director said, “which could not be more different than our bride, as you’ll see.”

Sure enough, the footage shown at the convention (not available online at time of writing) shows Jessie Buckley’s Bride being reanimated by Christian Bale’s Frankenstein, before he crushes someone’s head against a wall and tells her, solemnly, “Till death do us part.” As Buckley asks, “What’s my name?” the tagline for the movie teases, ‘The motherfucking Bride.’

Somewhere, Mary Shelley would be very proud.

The Bride! opens March 6, 2026.

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