''Daughter of Darkness'' is a 1990 American

made-for-television A television film, alternatively known as a television movie, made-for-TV film/movie or TV film/movie, is a feature-length film that is produced and originally distributed by or to a television network, in contrast to theatrical films made for ...

supernatural horror film Supernatural horror film is a film genre that combines aspects of horror film and supernatural film. Supernatural occurrences in such films often include ghosts and demons, and many supernatural horror films have elements of religion. Common them ...

directed by

Stuart Gordon Stuart Alan Gordon (August 11, 1947 – March 24, 2020) was an American filmmaker, theatre director, screenwriter, and playwright. Initially recognized for his provocative and frequently controversial work in experimental theatre, Gordon is perh ...

and starring

Anthony Perkins Anthony Perkins (April 4, 1932 – September 12, 1992) was an American actor, director, and singer. Perkins is best remembered for his role as Norman Bates in Alfred Hitchcock's suspense thriller '' Psycho'', which made him an influential ...

Mia Sara Mia Sarapochiello (born June 19, 1967), known professionally as Mia Sara, is a retired American actress. She made her film debut as Princess Lili in the fantasy film ''Legend'' (1985), and had her breakthrough starring as Sloane Peterson in the ...

, Dezsõ Garas and Jack Coleman. It originally premiered on

CBS CBS Broadcasting Inc., commonly shortened to CBS, the abbreviation of its former legal name Columbia Broadcasting System, is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network serving as the flagship property of the CBS Entertainmen ...

on January 26, 1990.

Plot

Katherine Thatcher (Mia Sara), a young woman trying to learn the identity of her father, is drawn into a

Romania Romania ( ; ro, România ) is a country located at the crossroads of Central Europe, Central, Eastern Europe, Eastern, and Southeast Europe, Southeastern Europe. It borders Bulgaria to the south, Ukraine to the north, Hungary to the west, S ...

n vampire underworld. She is unaware that her father (Perkins) is a vampire. The vampire community is surprised to find that someone has been born from a union between a vampire and a woman and they seek to draw her into their plans.

Cast

- Anton/Prince Constantine *

- Katherine Thatcher *Robert Reynolds - Grigore * Dezsõ Garas - Max * Jack Coleman - Devlin *Erika Bodnár - Nicole *Ági Margittay - Ági Margitai *Mari Kiss - Elena

Production

The film featured actors

and Jack Coleman. Director

originally scouted locations in

for the film but later chose to shoot on location in

Hungary Hungary ( hu, Magyarország ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning of the Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the south, Croatia a ...

Release

''Daughters of Darkness'' was shown on

on January 26, 1990.

Reception

Jon Burlingame commented on the film in the ''

Intelligencer Journal The ''Intelligencer Journal'', known locally as the ''Intell'', was the daily, morning newspaper published by Lancaster Newspapers, Inc in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. It is the 7th oldest newspaper in the United States and was one of the oldest newsp ...

'', noting the film's political elements, such as setting the film in Romania four months before democracy was brought to the country. However, Burlingame said that the film eventually succumbed to "standard horror-film conventions" and that Anthony Perkins "is reduced to doing a bad

Bela Lugosi Béla Ferenc Dezső Blaskó (; October 20, 1882 – August 16, 1956), known professionally as Bela Lugosi (; ), was a Hungarian and American actor best remembered for portraying Count Dracula in the 1931 horror classic ''Dracula'', Ygor in ''S ...

imitation, albeit heroically." Rick Kogan of the ''

Chicago Tribune The ''Chicago Tribune'' is a daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois, United States, owned by Tribune Publishing. Founded in 1847, and formerly self-styled as the "World's Greatest Newspaper" (a slogan for which WGN radio and television ar ...

'' also commented on Perkins, stating he was beginning to "look and act as haggard and haunted as if he really had been living at the Bates Motel (don't even wonder how goofy his accent is here)." Kogan found that Gordon's "expansive and clever horror-habits are muted and constrained by the small screen."

References

External links

* * * 1990 television films 1990 films 1990 horror films American supernatural horror films American horror television films CBS network films Films directed by Stuart Gordon Films scored by Colin Towns Films shot in Hungary 1990s supernatural horror films 1990s American films {{US-tv-horror-film-stub