With The Bride!, Maggie Gyllenhaal Clumsily Exhumes 200 Years of Zombie Girls

Whether Doctor Frankenstein likes it or not, the zombie story has always belonged to women. Ever since teenaged political radical Mary Shelley (daughter of feminist pioneer Mary Wollstonecraft) poured her maternal anguish into the party game ghost story that eventually became Frankenstein, this cultural lodestar has come heavy with feminine, not to mention feminist, valences. Perhaps its no wonder, then, that when Elsa Lanchester rose from the dead in 1935, screaming her way off the slab and qui...