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Farrell's novels spawned a subgenre of "Grande Dame Guignol" inside the cinema, represented by such movies as the 1962 movie based on Farrell's novel, which starred Bette Davis as opposed to Joan Crawford; this subgenre of movies was dubbed the "psycho-biddy" genre.The protagonist of Mexican Gothicc is no-one’s damsel in distress, swooning pretti