The Bride! - Italian Trailer for Maggie Gyllenhaal's Horror Film
It heavily focuses on an outsider love story, fierce and deeply human
Maggie Gyllenhaal rewrites one of the foundational myths of classic horror, completely flipping its point of view. The Bride!, arriving in Italian cinemas (including IMAX) on March 5, 2026 with Warner Bros., no longer tells the birth of the monster, but that of Frankenstein's bride, who finally becomes the absolute protagonist of her own story.
The film takes inspiration from James Whale's cult classic and the iconic Elsa Lanchester, but chooses a radically different path: the bride, played by Jessie Buckley, comes back to life without memory, without identity, and without a moral compass. Her journey is not only physical, but above all internal: to understand who she is, what she desires, and what place she occupies in a world that never truly wanted her. A path rarely granted to female characters in stories of this type.
Fierce, Deeply Human Work
Set in a reinvented 1930s Chicago, The Bride! transforms the monstrous couple into two romantic outlaws, with an aesthetic that recalls the rebellious cinema of Bonnie and Clyde, Badlands, and even expressionist suggestions à la Metropolis, filtered through a declared punk spirit.
Christian Bale plays Frankenstein in an unprecedented version: vulnerable, solitary, and disturbing, inspired as much by the original novel as by the anarchic energy of Sid Vicious. Not a monolithic monster, but an emotionally hungry creature capable of extreme gestures.
The cast also includes Annette Bening, Penélope Cruz, Peter Sarsgaard, and Jake Gyllenhaal, who returns to work with his sister after Donnie Darko.