The Bride is the latest female horror movie monster to hit the big screen, but she isn't the only great one over the years in horror history.

Director Maggie Gyllenhaal is throwing her hat into the ring with a new Frankenstein movie.

Maggie Gyllenhaal's movie is a scrappy feminist take-off on the "Frankenstein" myth that could have used more storytelling juice.

Peter Sarsgaard, Penélope Cruz, Annette Bening and Jake Gyllenhaal also appear in this punk-rock exhumation of a character only briefly introduced in Mary Shelley’s novel.

If there were a checklist of things female characters are supposed to do in order to be "empowered," The Bride! ticks them all. And yet.

Maggie Gyllenhaal's The Bride! makes multiple references to Frankenstein films of the past, but one Easter egg proves how smart she and her movie truly are.