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Daughter of Darkness

USA 1990
produced by
Andras Hamori, Gerald W. Abrams (executive), Harry B. Chandler (executive) for accent Entertainment, King Phoenix Entertainment/CBS
directed by Stuart Gordon
starring Mia Sara, Anthony Perkins, Robert Reynolds, Dezsö Garas, Jack Coleman, Erika Bodnár, Kati Rák, Ági Margittay, Attila Lote, Mari Kiss, Ferenc Némethy, István Hunyadkürthy
written by Andrew Laskos, music by Colin Towns

review by
Mike Haberfelner

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After the death of her mother back in Chicago, young Catherine (Mia Sara) heads off to (the then still communist) Romania in search of her long lost father. Too bad though that all the clues she's got are a photograph from 20 years ago & her own nightmares - & America diplomat Devlin (Jack Coleman) is rather reluctant in helping her, rather urging her to go back to the USA, since as it seems, the Romanian secret police Securitate are already on her trail. Still, thanks to her dreams Catherine manages to find Anton (Anthony Perkins) who tells her her father had died long ago. But little Cathy is not yet content & does some more research with her only friend, old cabdriver Max (Dezso Garas) both in Bucarest & in Transylvania, bjut her efforts are only rewarded by the Securitate temporarily incarcerating her, & presenting her with the corpse in her father's grave ... a woman. Disillusioned she looks for comfort with goodlooking Romanian guy Grigorij (Robert Reynolds) but has to find out that he is a vampire (after all, we are in Romania) who wants to have her wicked ways with her, but she is saved by Anton, who turns out to be the leader of the vampires & furthermore (to little surprise) her father - & this is making her a half human half vampire halfbreed. & while Anton has only the best of intentions concerning his own offspring, Grigorij sees a solution to all the vampires in her since she can also walk by daylight, & he wants to bed her (rather understandably, though for other reasons) in order to procreate. Anton however saves her, but falls victim to his own vampire brood, who imprison & torture him (through a cellar window they expose him to the wandering sun, slowly burning his skin). Catherine, who is already in the plane to the States does leave it in the last second, feeling her father's pain thanks to some telepathic bond, & she can persuade cabby Max to help her save her father. But when the sun goes down & they have almost succeeded, Max turns out to be one of them, & everything seems grim for her, until Devlin steps in again, & he helps her to burn all the vampires in the diverse cellars & drag her father out of there, but in the end, of course, only Grigorij has survived the ordeal & he threatens Catherine, who is saved by a recovering Anton in the nick of time, who of course also has to sacrifice his life.

 

Though this movie was actually done for television, & the limitations of the format sometimes show rather painfully (fade-outs ever so often for commercial breaks & the like), this is actually a reasonably solid if not very exciting vampire flick &, conmpared to other drivel he did, ranks among director Stuart Gordon's better work - even if it is a far cry from his best like Re-Animator or From Beyond.

 

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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