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 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.

This is a rare and atypically fulsome outing for The Bride herself, a macabre mate for the lonely monster, who was literally ...