Benefits from bursts of gory black humor as well as Bettis' riveting performance.

Too much of a hodgepodge of borrowed ideas and uneven tone.

Part Carrie, part Frankenstein and still shlockier bits and pieces, May isn't seamless. But boy is it hard to avert one's eyes from this creature ready-made for the midnight-movie circuit.

Lucky McKee’s May, a deeply personal, darkly comic meditation on loneliness, features themes of isolation and rejection, as well as a monster created from body parts, but the protagonist is female and can be seen as both the creator and the monster.