After years of talk about Hollywood reimagining "The Bride of Frankenstein" for the modern age, Maggie Gyllenhaal's "The Bride!" is among new 2026 movies out this week, and it’s time to talk about the ending. This is your SPOILER WARNING for the rest of this article. Go see it in theaters before reading on.<br /><br />At the end of the movie, Christian Bale’s Frank gets gunned down by the police, leading Jessie Buckley’s "The Bride" to return to Dr. Euphronious’ labs and ask for him to be reanimated. However, the police are hot on her trail and shoot her too, leaving them both dead on the operating table. But in the final moment of the movie, we see lightning flash and their pair of hands clutch onto each other as the credits role. Here’s what Bale said of the scene during CinemaBlend's interview.
