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While the two films are otherwise substantially different, I found it interesting that The Bride! and Bride of Frankenstein start with the same opening framing device of Mary Shelley, portrayed by the same actress who will ultimately portray the Bride, introducing the tale as unfinished business beyond the scope of the original Frankenstein story. In Maggie Gyllenhaal's opening, Shelley is presented as this cackling cartoonish villain, a ghost who possesses Ida/the Bride and manipulates her like a puppet, throwing her…
Went into this expecting a more standard cult deprogramming movie (I guess something a little closer to Split Image) and wound up getting… a sex comedy? A lot of this is played for laughs and the whole movie does have this darkly comic/satirical edge to it that I wasn’t anticipating. While this does have a lot of interesting elements to it - notably the similarity between Keitel’s cult deprogrammer character PJ Waters and what you…
The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was conning a bunch of old white suburbanites into paying to watch an anime in the theater as part of AMC Screen Unseen. This was the most packed I’ve seen the theater in a while, and I counted over 25 walkouts within the first 15 minutes of the movie. Pretty hilarious but also pretty pathetic. Easily the theatrical experience of the year so far.
