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I have indeed watched the movie, and even though I wasn't frightened by it, I would say it counts as a horror movie since there are gothic parts to it, but the romance and comedy in it largely overshadow the scary parts.
The punishments were based off of the victorian era's laws
The novel Heart of Darkness is told as a A) frame story.
It is a story within a story - the novel begins with a sailor telling his tale, and then Heart of Darkness, or the story in Kongo, truly begins.