DAUGHTER OF DARKNESS Review On "Violent Maniac's Cage"

DAUGHTER OF DARKNESS

(1994, Hong Kong)

Starring: Anthony Wong.

This film is one of HK´s more notorious CAT III offerings up to date. CAT III is a HongKong rating for movies with incorporate excessive violence and full frontal nudity - often simultanosly. Starring CAT III-regular Anthony Wong as a police detective, this film deals with the gory murder of an entire family - with only the daughter surviving - and its preceding events. During the course of the film we learn the daughter has been abused in countless ways by her dysfunctional family and that the murder was just her final outbreak. Sleaze - this characterizes this flick extremely well. Sex, voyourism, rape, violence, gore ... it´s all there. What makes this flick different from the other CAT III stuff out there is the cheesy and completely out-of-place humor often displayed. Once, for instance, one police officer slips on the brain matter of one murder victim, a guy falls into a cart full with shit while peeping at a showering girl and so on. The only reason for watching this flick is the main actress whose name I unfortunalty have forgotten and who really does a great job. Oh, and she´s good looking as well ;-) Otherwise - a surprisingly dull flick - go and watch BUN MAN or DIARY OF A SERIAL KILLER instead.

Rating: 1 Skull

Review by: Georg Buol

Email: georg.buol@computerhaus.at

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