The Bride is a 1985 Gothic romance film[4] directed by Franc Roddam, and starring Sting, Jennifer Beals, Geraldine Page, and Clancy Brown.

The team of scientists succeed in creating Eva, who is physically identical to a human and lacking the deformities of the monster.

There he falls in love with her and, with the help of his friend Charles Clerval and housekeeper Mrs. Baumann, educates her with the goal of making her a perfect human mate.

The men travel by foot through Europe, eventually arriving in Budapest, where they become involved with a circus owner named Magar, who hires them despite his dislike for Rinaldo.

Meanwhile, as Eva acquires language and develops further cognizance, she begins to question her origin and, while visiting a decrepit mausoleum with Baron Charles, tells him that she wishes to "go home."

Eva is initially well-spoken and formal, impressing the Countess, Captain Josef Schoden, and other guests, but becomes agitated when a cat enters the room.

Hinting the two share a type of psychic connection, as Viktor mourns, Eva suddenly feels a great sense of lost and cries in her room.

During an argument, the Baron finally reveals to Eva how he created her, using parts of corpses, and bringing her to life via an electric charge.

The dwarf in the film is named Rinaldo, after the name of blacklisted Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein screenwriter Frederic I. Rinaldo,[citation needed] who also wrote the scripts for several Universal films, including Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man (1951); Hold That Ghost (1941); The Black Cat (1941) and The Invisible Woman (1940).

Principal photography of The Bride began on June 6, 1984, at Lee International's Shepperton Studios in England.

Columbia Pictures released the film theatrically in North America on August 16, 1985, and it grossed $3,558,669 at the U.S. box office.