Editing Bride of the Monster (section)

===Genre and background===
The film combines elements of [[science fiction]] and [[horror fiction]], genres which were frequently combined in films of the 1950s. Like many of these contemporaries, ''Bride'' serves in part as a [[Cold War]] [[propaganda film]].<ref name=Craig/> The country of origin for Vornoff and Strowski is left unnamed. The only clues is that it is European and has its own dreams of conquest. By implication, the country which exiled Vornoff in the 1930s could be [[Nazi Germany]] or the [[Soviet Union]]. Their role as villains for the American cinema had already been solidified by the 1950s, and Wood could be alluding to both of them. Strowski uses the term master race, which is a key concept in [[Nazism]].<ref name=Craig/>

Both the working title "Bride of the Atom" and the final title ''Bride of the Monster'' allude to the film ''[[Bride of Frankenstein]]'' (1935).<ref name=Craig/> The film otherwise follows the template of the [[Poverty Row]] horror films of the 1940s. The [[Atomic Age]] influences the film in its ominous implications concerning nuclear weapons and the threat they posed towards human civilization.<ref name=Craig/>