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The Bride
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.
Release : | 1985 |
Rating : | 5.4 |
Studio : | Columbia Pictures, Tri-Star-Delphi III Productions, Colgems Productions Ltd., |
Crew : | Art Direction, Assistant Art Director, |
Cast : | Sting Jennifer Beals Anthony Higgins Clancy Brown David Rappaport |
Genre : | Drama Horror Science Fiction Romance |
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Very best movie i ever watch
Good start, but then it gets ruined
Absolutely Brilliant!
Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.
It's Halloween 2017, and I saw this movie on TV. Didn't know anything about it except that it had Sting in it and it was made in 1985. Basically was another adaptation of the Mary Shelley Frankenstein novel. The opening music sounded sentimental as if a romance was about to unfold....as opposed to a horror movie. And it was anything but a horror movie. It was a heart warming story, much more complex than the 1931 Universal movie. Both the male monster and female monster were very sympathetic characters. I love period, Old World, costume productions, which this was. The movie had a rich, high budget look. Sting acted respectfully. The midget character was a bit Disneyesque - a little too sentimental, but he was charming nonetheless. I had no clue how this was going to end but was satisfied by the ending. I suppose it did poorly because it wasn't a "horror" movie with scary monsters in it. But I still liked it a lot.
Baron Charles Frankenstein (Sting) and his assistants create Eva (Jennifer Beals) for his monster (Clancy Brown). Eva rejects the monster and he destroys the lab. Frankenstein escapes with Eva. Unbeknowst to him, the monster also escapes and befriends midget Rinaldo. Rinaldo teaches him humanity and gives him the name Viktor. They travel to Budapest and join the circus. Meanwhile, Frankenstein intends to civilize Eva and mold her into his love. He tells everyone that he found her in the woods with memory lost. Captain Josef Schoden (Cary Elwes) is taken with her. She encounters Viktor and the spark is reignited.The movie has little tension. When the story splits in two, the tension fades. Sting is stiff in this and not his best role. Jennifer Beals doesn't deserve her Razzie nomination. Her role requires some odd work from her. This is a bad attempt at reworking the Frankenstein story.
Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein" was the first true horror novel, a brilliant mixture of 18th century hautiness slammed headlong into the unwise act of playing God. The style mingled with the horror were the key and without them you have . . . well, you have The Bride.The Bride is a labored, snooze-inducing effort to turn The Bride of Frankenstein into a sympathetic Merchant/Ivory-esqe production and style it up to sell to the MTV crowd. The problem is that it isn't any more interesting then what you had for dinner last night.The movie takes place sometime after Dr. Frankenstein (Sting) has forgotten that his creature (played here by Clancy Brown) threw a child into the lake and thus has pulled his electrodes out of mothballs. Why? Because his creature is starting to feel the itch for some female companionship.Then the creature gets upset that the process is taking too long and destroys the lab just as his bride is beginning to wiggle. Not realizing that Dr. Love Connection has just completed building Jennifer Beals, the creature runs away and hangs around with a circus midget (David Rappaport).Completely forgetting that his creature might come back at any given moment to reclaim his bride, the Absent Minded Professor decides to claim this little philly for himself and names her Eve. He's made lots of vast improvements over Version 1.0 including removing all of her stitches without a single scar. He tries to teach her the ways of 19th century etiquette, fashion, fine dining and social graces in scenes that will likely bore you into a coma.The scenes between the creature and Rinaldo the midget are kind of touching (in a petting a bullfrog sort of way) as the two make off with the circus and become bosom buddies. Rinaldo even gives the creature a name - Viktor. How ironic.Then Viktor suddenly remembers that he was about to get a bride. This comes as a shock when we discover - now get this - they are linked, psychically. Ooooooooooookay!! This leads to the inevitable as Viktor returns to claim his bride and one thing leads to another and I can't remember the end of the film because I kept falling asleep.What it boils down to is MTV does Gothic horror. It is made in the style of a music video stretched on for 120 minutes and it's agony getting through them. The movie is like dinner with your least interesting relatives.Don't stop by this castle, there's no life here.
Sting is the only good thing in this movie. He is delightfully over the top as Charles Frankenstein. When Frankenstein creates Viktor (Clancy Brown), he realizes that Victor needs a mate, and creates Eve (Jennifer Beals).The problem comes in when Frankenstein becomes obsessed with Eve. What follows is supposed to be the touching way that Eve decides that being with the sweet, lovable, ugly Victor is better than being with the handsome but shallow and cruel Frankenstein...big shocker.There may be no real surprises here, but it does have some decent special effects, and, as I mentioned earlier, Sting is wonderful!