While nominated for the role of the steely CIA operative responsible for the killing if Osama bin Laden in Zero Dark Thirty, Chastain also has horror, comedy and an off-the-wall Terrence Malick flick on her recent resume making her just the kind of versatile actress audiences love.

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But Matthew Broderick, as her husband, a Caspar Milquetoast with a flap of hair falling over his forehead, never seems to get into the movie at all, and, somewhere in the middle, the rusty gothic-horror mechanics underneath the comedy bring everything to a grinding halt.

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The story captures the fancy of two young women vacationing at Whitby, Mina Murray and Lucy Westenra, as their summer together turns from romantic comedy to gothic horror.

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Was it supposed to be a comedy or a horror?

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It features more than 1, 400 images from horror, sci-fi, comedy, silent, sound, and black-and-white monster movies that run a gamut of categorization: Vampires, Werewolves, Atomic Mutations, Human Monsters, and Scary Older Ladies.

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Other movies honoured at Grosvenor House Hotel event included 28 Weeks Later for best horror film, Hot Fuzz won best comedy and Stardust was named best sci-fi film.

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