The Bride is the latest female horror movie monster to hit the big screen, but she isn't the only great one over the years in horror history.

If there were a checklist of things female characters are supposed to do in order to be "empowered," The Bride! ticks them all. And yet.

The Bride! is a new Frankenstein adaptation from Maggie Gyllenhaal, and it is a chaotic, audacious mess that works only in ...