ryan-10075 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.

gridoon2018 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.

slayrrr666 "Daughter of Darkness" is an actually pretty good film with a few small flaws to it.**SPOILERS**Arriving in Romania, American Katherine Thatcher, (Mia Sara) determined to find herself a new life. While searching through the city with Max, (Dezso Garas) keeps seeing a strange dragon symbol that resembles a design on her medallion she wears which helps her along with the search for her missing father. Meeting with local Grigore Protoescu, (Robert Reynolds) who helps her along, and she manages to do a little more digging into the past, eventually coming across Anton, (Anthony Perkins) who has a terrible secret for her. Eventually cornered with the realization that her father is a member of a secret society of vampires that needs their blood to stay alive, and that everyone else she trusts is either a member or are a willful helper, she tries to escape from their clutches before she becomes one of them.The Good News: There's some good stuff to this one. One of the best is that there's a habit of including really neat scenes in random order throughout the film. Some of them are pretty creepy, including a rather intense chase of a black-robed figure through the streets at night, which leads into the incredibly explosive finale that really ends it the right way. The foot chase to the taxi later on is also pretty good, and it even manages to get in some pretty good stuff later on. There's the whole finale to this, which is where most of the fun in the film comes from. From the creepy torture dungeon to the stable hideout, there's some good locations for the all-out action assaults. Those are great, as there's the torture segment in the dungeon which is actually really cool, as the sight of the vampire being strapped to a machine that lets in daylight to scar and torch the hands, arms and face, and the impressive visual of that happening, is a great site and manages to make them feel a lot more threatening when it occurs. Then there's the confrontation in the stable, which is just great. From the introduction of the fire to set everything ablaze to the brawling with the vampires and the destruction of the location and the thrilling escape, it's really fun and enjoyable. It's also got the fact that the vampires are all knocked off by being set on-fire is really great, as there's plenty of great scenes that show them running around on fire. It's a great site, and mixed in with the really great setting and fun action make the ending fun. What makes these work is the really entertaining storyline for this one. There's a really great mystery angle at work, with the reason for the journey to Romania a logical one that allows for some creepy goings-on that it manages to incorporate because of what's going on, and they're all done really nicely in here because the story allows them to. These here are the film's good points.The Bad News: This one here had a few flaws to it that do hold it down. The main one here does have one of the worst problems with it's vampires in here. This one here does have the new bloodsucking angle, but beyond that and the can't-stand-sunlight angle, there's almost no need for them to even be vampires. This one would've worked fine with a cult of vampire wannabe's who think they're vampires or had something else done with what's been given so far, because this one really doesn't feel like a vampire film at all. This would still be entertaining with the cult angle rather than the vampire coven, and a little more with this would've been fine. The other flaw to this is that there should've been a little more action to this in the beginning. Since it focuses on the mystery more than anything else during that part, it manages to be a little boring for these scenes, as it's in the beginning and it takes a while to get into. These here are the film's few problems.The Final Verdict: With some very good points to this and only a few really noticeable flaws that hold it down, this one ends up as being one of the better entries available. Give this one a chance if it sounds interesting or find these kinds of films themselves quite fun, otherwise the flaws here will be quite worthwhile.Rated R: Violence, Language and Nudity

Cinema_Lover 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.