Fast facts about The Bride! What : A retelling of The Bride of Frankenstein (1935), drawing on a character that never appeared in Mary Shelley\xe2\x80\x99s original novel Starring : Jessie Buckley, Christian Bale, Pen\xc3\xa9lope Cruz, Jake Gyllenhaal Directed by: Maggie Gyllenhaal When : In cinemas now Likely to make you feel : Invigorated, intrigued and perplexed What they didn\'t account for, however, was whether said "Bride" (Jessie Buckley) would be amenable to that task ( Supplied: Warner Bros ) Alas,The Bride!, Maggie Gyllenhaal\'s debut feature as writer and director, tries to be too many things all at once: a doomed romance, a feminist treatise, a sci-fi social satire, and \xe2\x80\xa6 a meta musical that makes multiple bizarre references to Mel Brooks\'s Young Frankenstein