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  "textContent": "Is it a horror movie? Not quite. It’s a scrappy punk feminist tragicomedy of l’amour fou, a renegade take-off on the \"Frankenstein\" mythology. And while the movie doesn’t entirely work — it lumbers along and blows fuses; it has plenty of flesh and blood but not enough storytelling spine — there’s a genuine spark of audacity to it. It’s alive in a way that Del Toro’s \"Frankenstein\" was not.",
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