The Bride of Frankenstein is a fictional character first introduced in Mary Shelley 's 1818 novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus and later in the 1935 film Bride of Frankenstein.

Mar 6, 2026 · Frankenstein’s female creature, also known as “the Bride”, was the first female monster to appear on screen, in the 1935 Frankenstein sequel: The Bride of Frankenstein. An unruly and...

Mar 6, 2026 · When Maggie Gyllenhaal sat down to rewatch “The Bride of Frankenstein,” the 1935 James Whale classic, she wasn’t prepared for what she didn’t see. The Bride appears for only two …

Mar 7, 2026 · The Bride! digs into the tension underpinning the female Frankenstein—that her resurrection robs her of agency in a way that feels particularly violent, and gendered.

Mar 4, 2026 · Maggie Gyllenhaal’s “The Bride!” is a big, brash swing at a new “The Bride of Frankenstein” that struggles to cohere its many parts.

Bride of Frankenstein: Directed by James Whale. With Boris Karloff, Elsa Lanchester, Colin Clive, Valerie Hobson. Mary Shelley reveals the main characters of her novel survived: Baron Henry …

In the film Bride of Frankenstein (1935), Dr. Septimus Pretorius, who has become the Monster's benefactor, blackmails Dr. Henry Frankenstein into creating a race of "gods and monsters", starting …