{"id":415176,"date":"2026-01-15T18:25:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T18:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/415176\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T18:25:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T18:25:07","slug":"the-dead-have-something-to-scream-about-in-the-bride-trailer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/415176\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dead Have Something to Scream About in ‘The Bride!’ Trailer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Don\u2019t you dare call her the Bride of Frankenstein. The Bride\u2014just the Bride\u2014makes her grand entrance in the first full trailer for Maggie Gyllenhaal\u2019s creature romance<\/a> after that monstrously intriguing teaser back in September<\/a>. The Bride!<\/a> stars Jessie Buckley as the title character, with Christian Bale as her similarly undead soulmate, and this extended glimpse gives us even more of those Bonnie and Clyde vibes, with a dash of Joker 2: Folie \u00e0 Deux\u00a0(ack), but also an anarchic, punk-rock energy that could indeed translate into an electrifying feature.<\/p>\n

We now have a better sense of the Bride\u2019s arc\u2014with all those pleas for help, it\u2019s clear she was not in a good place before dying and being brought back to life\u2014as well as the movie\u2019s plans to incorporate some sort of \u201cdamn the man\u201d crusade against corruption but also spontaneous dance parties. The 1930s setting infuses the production design, but Buckley\u2019s outlaw heroine is clearly a classic shit-starter unbeholden to any specific time period, declaring, \u201cThe dead have got something to say, and I\u2019m saying it!\u201d<\/p>\n

As for Bale\u2019s Frankie, we get that there\u2019s an \u201cI am a monster\u201d\/\u201dSo am I\u201d dynamic in the relationship, and that perhaps the concept of \u201cmonster\u201d will expand beyond the couple\u2019s gruesome origins. Less prominent are characters played by Jake Gyllenhaal, Peter Sarsgaard, and the blink-and-you\u2019ll-miss-them Annette Bening and Pen\u00e9lope Cruz.<\/p>\n

The song in the background is \u201cEverybody Scream\u201d by Florence + the Machine, which feels exactly in line with the tone being conveyed here. What do you think of the trailer\u2014and the propulsive, subversive feeling that The Bride! is giving off?<\/p>\n

Written and directed by Gyllenhaal, The Bride! hits theaters March 6.<\/p>\n

Want more io9 news? Check out when to expect the latest Marvel<\/a>, Star Wars<\/a>, and Star Trek<\/a> releases, what\u2019s next for the DC Universe on film and TV<\/a>, and everything you need to know about the future of Doctor Who<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t you dare call her the Bride of Frankenstein. The Bride\u2014just the Bride\u2014makes her grand entrance in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":415177,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[64,63,108042,134,3659,76393,214659,344,108043],"class_list":{"0":"post-415176","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-christian-bale","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-frankenstein","13":"tag-jessie-buckley","14":"tag-maggie-gyllenhaal","15":"tag-movies","16":"tag-the-bride"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=415176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415176\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/415177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}