Too much of everything

I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

Good movie but grossly overrated

Excellent adaptation.

I remember when I first came across this TV movie I thought Anthony Perkins is in it, so he probably will be good, but beyond him there may not be anything redeeming. Just on the fact that I had never heard of it. Then I saw Stuart Gordon was the director and have really enjoyed Re-Animator and From Beyond so I was kind of excited. It is worth a look, but do remember this is a TV movie, so it will not be as gory as the two movies mentioned before.After the mother of Katherine Thatcher (well played by Mia Sara) dies Katherine is then on a quest to find her father. She is shown mysterious dreams and is being followed. She unearths information about her father and learns he is a vampire. Her father is Anthony Perkins and he does quite a fine job in the role. A thing that is different about the vampires in this movie and I admit I am not 100% sure why they did this is they do not have fangs, their tongues have fangs. Kind of weird, but it doesn't seem to really take away from the movie. It is the acting of the two main characters Mia Sara and Anthony Perkins that do bring this movie up. As well as the more than capable direction from Stuart Gordon. Worth a look if you can find it.

As stated it started watchable enough with decent cinematography and music. Some decent dream like effects. Then another. Then another. The dialogue was a joke. Not a funny joke. A joke of a film. The beginning music and camera work was about a 5, then the nonsense dialogue, the comic taxi driver, the joke of a consulate worker character, 4 stars, more nonsense dialogue, 3 stars, then I gave up, this is a 1 star film. To watch this movie just to get a glimpse of some decent film making is too much work.The packing is slow. The dialogue is boring and long. Everything is spelled out. Perkins' accent is the biggest joke. At one point our heroin and her taxi driver pass a police officer while they are carrying gas cans! Nice job. Maybe they should have made this a full on comedy. The makeup on Perkins face was a mess.There were at least 2 scenes of tourist buses with tourists touring. Maybe this could have been promoted as a tourist film.The acting was OK at best, more mediocre. As mentioned the dialogue was a horror, not in a good way.The only way I can recommend this is if your getting drunk and laughing at the movie.1 star, for effort.

You'd expect something more than this bland, obvious, bloodless vampire thriller from a collaboration between Stuart Gordon (of "Re-Animator" infamy) and Anthony Perkins. The stunning Mia Sara stars as a young American girl who travels to Romania to find out what happened to her father; she has a photograph of her father, and it looks like Perkins, but when she meets him she doesn't recognize him (!), and apparently the audience is meant to gasp when Perkins is finally revealed as her father. The film is a big disappointment, though it's fun to see Noah Bennett from "Heroes" looking so young. *1/2 out of 4.

I remember Daughter of Darkness from 1990, I was 14 at the time (hard to believe that part of the 90s is 15 years ago!) and I found to be a very compelling film. This was a great little flick by made for TV standards, and they had a unique take on vampire lore. From what I remember, the vampire's tongue had some sort of fangs or pricks on it. I remember this film being VERY sexy too. It turned me on at age 14 back then. I would probably think it's stupid today, but I would still love to watch this again. I wish I could say more about this movie, but I just don't remember enough. It aired on CBS from what I remember. What I was doing watching CBS at age 14 back in 1990 I can't tell you. In 1990 CBS was still the 45+ year old peoples channel.