Ridiculous garbage

Rating: 4/10 (7 July 2017)

Cinematic non-entity Emily Browning stars as an orphan living in some Gothic version of 1950's America. Problems with her ridiculously evil stepdad lands her in a mental hospital (or home for the "mentally insane" as the film calls it ... distinguishing from a home for the physically insane I suppose), from which she escapes by ... perhaps ... imagining that she's in a cabaret/brothel where her and a troop of other girls have to dance for the customers. From this fantasy reality she occasionally slips into a further fantasy reality (no, I don't know how that's supposed to work either), where her and the other girls fight dragons and Nazi robots using swords and machine guns. There are elaborate parallels between the 3 levels of reality, but it would be a lie to say I stopped caring because I really never started caring about any of this. It's difficult to imagine another case where so many resources were spent on so little.