Talent and ambition seem to be in Marys genes even at a precociously young age.
She commits the cardinal filmmaking sin of telling rather than showing.
Were left with an aggressively conventional movie about extraordinarily unconventional characters.
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The whole thing feels suffocated as if it exists under glass.
Fanning, with her pale meringue complexion and dewy saucer eyes, is too stiff and restrained as Mary.
You keep waiting for him to sink his fangs in Fannings virginal neck.
This is where the movie, much like Frankensteins monster, should spring to life and become animated.
And, to a degree, it is.
But its so flat and poorly paced that it just feels like a squandered opportunity of monstrous proportions.C
