First time I saw this flick, it aired on TV (without the naked scenes), and in recent history, I was lucky enough to find it on a DVD set of horror movies, so I could watch it again. Actress Mia Sarah (Legend) plays a woman who loses her mother and travels to Romania in search of her lost father. Along the way, she has terrifying dreams of a faceless man and while led by images in dreams, she meets Anthony Perkins (Psycho), who tells her father is dead, having been killed during the political turnover in Romania. There's some great political intrigue, but the plot instead descends into a vampire lore (not so much, they're actually vampire knock-offs). The vampires in this movie do not follow the traditional vampire lore and instead drink blood through a tiny mouth in their tongue. (I kid you not.) To make this plot even more insulting to the memory of Bram Stoker, the vampire wanna-bees want to use Mia to allow them to live during the day. By this point, what little appeal the movie had is gone. The last half of the movie just plods along, slowly, No shocks, no thrills. It's not scary. It's barely a vampire movie. Worse part, it ends anticlimactically. The only appealing part is the fact the film was filmed in Hungary so there's a lot of great scenery to appreciate, but beyond that,it's just not that great a movie.
Review of Daughter of Darkness
