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Daughter Of Darkness
| AKA's: | Figli Delle Tenebre / Fille Des Tenebres, La / Hija De Las Tinieblas, La |
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| Release date: | 1989 USA | Running time: | 89' (cover 90'/USA 93') - Source: VHS PAL | Rating: | Germ.: 18; UK: 18; US: R | ||
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Director: Stuart Gordon (Castle Freak 1995; Fortress 1993; Re-Animator 1985) Producer: Accent Entertainment / King Phoenix Entertainment / Novofilm Budapest Score: Colin Towns Writer: Andrew Laskos Director of photography: Ivan Mark |
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A beautiful young woman (Mia Sara) is endlessly tormented by strange dreams of castles and graveyards. Desperate to discover the source of these nightmares, she travels to Romania to find the father she never knew, who might provide some answers. Once there, she falls prey to the sensuous and charming Grigore (Robert Reynolds), who leads her into the dark and hidden chambers where her father (Anthony Perkins) lives - as a vampire prince. But Grigoire's motives are hardly pure, for he too belongs to the evil undead. When he tries to seduce Cathy, and mix his blood with hers for eternity, her father intervenes. For this action, a tribunal condemns him to death. Cathy, who has managed to escape the vampires' lair, begs handsome embassy attache Jack Devlin (Jack Coleman) for help. Together they try to free her tortured, ravaged father and save Cathy from a fate worse than death.
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short review: Although the movie's plot is not one of the biggest stories ever told, and not always 100 % logic-proof, it is somehow touching and the story-telling enables the viewer to evolve a certain feeling and caring about the main characters. And it provides something new: these vampires don't have fangs, but split the tip of their tongues instead, to produce some kind of proboscis-like "suck organ" to drain their victims dry.  |
