Synopsis
Doctor Frankenstein creates a mate for his monster, a woman called Eva, who promptly rejects the male creature. In turn, the doctor becomes obsessed with Eva, and tries to make her a perfect victorian woman.
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Cast
- StingFrankenstein
- Jennifer BealsEva
- Anthony HigginsClerval
- Clancy BrownViktor
- David RappaportRinaldo
- Geraldine PageMrs. Baumann
- Cary ElwesJosef
- Timothy SpallPaulus
- Alexei SayleMagar
- Phil DanielsBela
Recommandations
- 50
TV Guide Magazine
THE BRIDE must be commended for its attempt to tell two parallel stories, but unfortunately the halves do not balance, resulting in a picture in which the lead characters (Sting and Beals) become secondary to the supporting ones (Brown and Rappaport). - 50
Variety
While there is deliberate humor at times, most of it successfully produced by a lilting dwarf character who steals the movie (David Rappaport), the intention of the filmmakers is not camp. That’s both the pic’s virtue and, at the conclusion, its downfall. - 50
Los Angeles Times
Unfortunately, for all the admirable respect director Franc Roddam and writer Lloyd Fonvielle (who co-wrote Roddam's "The Lords of Discipline") bring to their extensive reworking of the legend of Frankenstein and his bride, they're over their heads -- waaaaayyy over. The result is a film that commands affection for its ambition and civilized sensibility, but nonetheless provokes unintended laughter. [16 Aug 1985, p.C18] - 50
Miami Herald
Truly, a modern fable in period dress...But boring. No other word for it. Director Franc Roddam (The Lords of Discipline, Quadrophenia) is a plodder. He can make dense films, ornate films, but he brings no special life to his projects. Here, he cannot escape the sumptuous confines his art directors have created or the too-rich images of cinematographer Stephen Burum. When the movie needs to race, it lurches instead, like the monster staggering castleward at the head of a torchlight parade. - 38
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
That the producer thinks Beals plus Sting equals big bucks at the box office may be the biggest contrivance of all. [19 Aug 1985] - 30
Chicago Reader
The crosscutting between the two plot lines is so feeble and intrusive that it destroys whatever faint narrative momentum the film possesses. - 25
Chicago Tribune
What a letdown! The remake of the 1935 classic ''The Bride of Frankenstein'' with rock star Sting as the doctor and Jennifer Beals as the reconstructed bride is a complete failure in telling its principal story. - 20
The New York Times
Miss Beals's performance sinks this already muddled mess of a movie like a stone.
