Original sentence: The film, which succeeds as it was intended, as a parody of the golden age of German expressionist cinema (in particularly Paul Leni's Waxworks), helped by the presence of Wegener, himself the star of two of the genre's high points, The Golem (1920) and Alraune (1928)
Edited sentence: The film, which succeeds as it was intended, as a parody of the golden age of German expressionist cinema (in particularly Paul Leni's Waxworks), turns out to be a surprisingly good black comedy with lots of tongue in cheek moments, helped by the presence of Wegener, himself the star of two of the genre's high points, The Golem (1920) and Alraune (1928), sending himself up