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It took me a bit after this film was over to really understand what it was about.  I was confused because it seemed to be just a young girl, who saw the original Frankenstein movie, who has been told by her sister that the monster's spirit lives in a small farmhouse out in the wilderness.  I watched the film as if that was all it was about, and I was a bit bored.  It wasn't until post-film reflection that I realized it was kind of a PAN'S LABYRINTH film...only this little girl's horrors that she is trying to escape were not war.  I realized this when I remembered how her father was filmed with ominous camera angles and she imagined her father as the monster himself.  When it all came together in my brain...it was quite haunting.