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Baron Charles Frankenstein, Dr. Zalhus and the Baron's assistant Paulus build Eva, a female companion for the creature the Baron has already made. The experiment works, and Eva looks fully human, without the monster's deformities. She recoils from the mate chosen for her. A quarrel over Eva between the creature and the Baron leaves the laboratory wrecked. Believing the creature dead, the Baron travels with Eva to Castle Frankenstein. There his love for her grows, and with Charles Clerval and the housekeeper Mrs. Baumann he educates her to become a perfect human mate.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Bride (1985)
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- During the October 1984 filming of a circus sequence at Shepperton Studios, a fire engulfed the circus tent and destroyed the set. All 300 cast and crew members escaped unharmed, but production had to wait five weeks for a new tent, and director Franc Roddam began editing the film in the meantime.
- Director Franc Roddam and screenwriter Lloyd Fonvielle pitched The Bride to every major Hollywood studio and were turned down by all except Columbia Pictures. Columbia head Frank Price passed on it, but after his October 1983 resignation his replacement, Guy McElwaine, immediately greenlit the film.
- The film's star, Sting, was originally hired to compose the original musical score for The Bride, but he was ultimately replaced by Maurice Jarre.
- Jennifer Beals, cast as Eva, was a sophomore at Yale University when she took the part. The university accommodated her shooting schedule as long as she completed her term papers, which she submitted by mail.
- The film's dwarf character, Rinaldo, is named after Frederic I. Rinaldo, the blacklisted screenwriter of Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein and other Universal films including Hold That Ghost and The Invisible Woman.
