Daughter of Darkness tells the tale of a Chicago high school teacher named Katherine Thatcher (Mia Sara) whose Mother has recently died, Katherine decides to travel to Romania to track down the Father she never knew with only a photograph & an address to go on. Once in Bucharest she contacts the American consulate Jack Devlin (Jack Coleman) who warns Katherine to be careful in her investigations as Romania is not the safest of places. Ever since she was a young child Katherine has suffered from vivid dreams which have turned into nightmares & have become even more real, while searching for her Father Katherine notices a few familiar looking things, places & landmarks that she recognises from her dreams. Katherine ends up at a glass works where she meets Anton (Anthony Perkins) who turns out to be her Father, unfortunately for Katherine she has attracted the attention of the Romanian secret police & her Father just happens to be the ruler of a group of modern day blood sucking Vampires, Katherine learns she has Vampire blood running through her veins...
Directed by Stuart Gordon Daughter of Darkness is an OK horror film that passes the time but didn't exactly amaze me. The script by co-producer Andrew Laskos takes itself extremely seriously & starts off a bit slowly but the pace eventually picks up & it turns into a reasonably effective film. Much of what happens in Daughter of Darkness is very low key, it's not a particularly exciting film, I wasn't glued to my seat, it's not scary & there's nothing original about it but there was just enough to it to maintain my interest & stop me from going to sleep. As in a lot of Vampire films Daughter of Darkness cherry picks the aspects of Vampire film-lore that it wants to use, these Vampires are killed by sunlight & sleep in coffins but they don't use fangs to drink blood & crosses don't do anything either. The whole thing is rather predictable & you can see the so-called twist coming a mile off, the character's are pretty good, the plotting is OK & everything works reasonably well in context. Daughter of Darkness is one of those films that is uniformly average in almost all departments, I can't say it's a bad film but at the same time I'm not going to say that it's brilliant because it clearly isn't.
Director Gordon does a good job here at making at lot of Daughter of Darkness effective. This isn't the sort of horror Gordon is known for & I was surprised to see his name on the credits as he is probably best known for splatter films such as Re-Animator (1985), From Beyond (1986), Dolls (1987), Castle Freak (1995), Dagon (2001) & King of the Ants (2003) amongst other's. Shot on location in Romania it certainly has a unique feel to it, there's some atmosphere but little in the way of blood or gore present in some of Gordon's other genre films, in fact I can't think of any.
While I was watching Daughter of Darkness I kept saying to myself that it looked very flat & bland like a made-for-TV film & then what do I discover when I check the IMDb? Yep it was indeed made-for-TV & frankly you can tell right from the off which isn't a compliment. It's generally well made although it obviously had both a low budget & low production values. What on Earth is that accent supposed to be Anthony? Mr. Psycho (1960) himself Anthony Perkins has one of the most ridiculous accent's ever captured on film, I really think this guy has made a career out of one film & he is definitely living on past glories or rather glory as in singular.
Daughter of Darkness is a somewhat unremarkable film, it's OK & it's watchable but I'd probably have forgotten all about it by the end of the week. Worth a watch if your bored but there are better films out there.
Directed by Stuart Gordon Daughter of Darkness is an OK horror film that passes the time but didn't exactly amaze me. The script by co-producer Andrew Laskos takes itself extremely seriously & starts off a bit slowly but the pace eventually picks up & it turns into a reasonably effective film. Much of what happens in Daughter of Darkness is very low key, it's not a particularly exciting film, I wasn't glued to my seat, it's not scary & there's nothing original about it but there was just enough to it to maintain my interest & stop me from going to sleep. As in a lot of Vampire films Daughter of Darkness cherry picks the aspects of Vampire film-lore that it wants to use, these Vampires are killed by sunlight & sleep in coffins but they don't use fangs to drink blood & crosses don't do anything either. The whole thing is rather predictable & you can see the so-called twist coming a mile off, the character's are pretty good, the plotting is OK & everything works reasonably well in context. Daughter of Darkness is one of those films that is uniformly average in almost all departments, I can't say it's a bad film but at the same time I'm not going to say that it's brilliant because it clearly isn't.
Director Gordon does a good job here at making at lot of Daughter of Darkness effective. This isn't the sort of horror Gordon is known for & I was surprised to see his name on the credits as he is probably best known for splatter films such as Re-Animator (1985), From Beyond (1986), Dolls (1987), Castle Freak (1995), Dagon (2001) & King of the Ants (2003) amongst other's. Shot on location in Romania it certainly has a unique feel to it, there's some atmosphere but little in the way of blood or gore present in some of Gordon's other genre films, in fact I can't think of any.
While I was watching Daughter of Darkness I kept saying to myself that it looked very flat & bland like a made-for-TV film & then what do I discover when I check the IMDb? Yep it was indeed made-for-TV & frankly you can tell right from the off which isn't a compliment. It's generally well made although it obviously had both a low budget & low production values. What on Earth is that accent supposed to be Anthony? Mr. Psycho (1960) himself Anthony Perkins has one of the most ridiculous accent's ever captured on film, I really think this guy has made a career out of one film & he is definitely living on past glories or rather glory as in singular.
Daughter of Darkness is a somewhat unremarkable film, it's OK & it's watchable but I'd probably have forgotten all about it by the end of the week. Worth a watch if your bored but there are better films out there.