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This is a combination comedy, crime drama, horror & sexploitation film. It doesn't do any one of these great but well enough that together it's an above average movie.

The IMDB plot description is (as frequently the case) not accurate. We don't know who did the killing until near the end. It's more accurate to say, the movie is both the investigation of the killings as well as what provoked the killings.

The police are more the comedy, played in a slapstick style. Yes they actually investigate tho almost everything they do is played for laughs. Unfortunately, it doesn't work much of the time but there are a few laughs. They are part of the crime drama tho that's mostly played out in the story of what lead to the killings. That part is also the sexploitation with several sex scenes. Nothing real graphic but there is nudity and simulated sex. The killings themselves are the horror part as it's fairly graphic violence with several quarts of blood. The script did a fantastic job of weaving everything together. This movie fits every category of a Cat III movie.

While most of the cast are just alright. The female lead Lily Chung is excellent. Part of the reason this movie works. Yes she is beautiful but more importantly she can act. Ka-Kui Ho, who plays her father is outstanding. His facial expressions really fit the part.

This movie may not be for everyone. Some may not like the violence. Some the nudity. Some may not find anything funny. It's the movie in its entirety that make it a very good movie. Worth watching!

I suppose this melodramatic piece of clownish claptrap is the Chinese' idea of dark and deviant. As if a year and a half there wasn't enough to let me know how lame their films and TV shows are.

It gets pretty nasty for a few minutes toward the end. The "row, row, row your boat" part nearly had me fapping. But even then the general air of "aw shucks" stupidity will make it difficult for most people to even get that far. The typically Chinglish subtitles only lessen the impact.

Unless you are not a fan of these kind of films, I wouldn't recommend this. Communists simply do not have enough worldliness or emotional depth to create anything truly profound, since they are indoctrinated to be lamers from birth.

The ending is nearly twenty unrelenting minutes of a moronically cruel downward spiral that is supposed to have you in tears, but in reality just makes you wanna roll your eyes till your brain starts to hurt. It just goes on and on and on. It's as if some idiot thought (and I'm sure he did), "Let's make a hundred item list of every single possible thing that would make people sad, then show them all scene by scene toward the end!!"

A young woman is maltreated by her family an raped by her father. All her family is killed. The daughter is suspected by a mad inspector (a sort of trash Nicky Larson) who is more interested by sex (very "scatological") than the investigation. What a strange movie! In fact, it's a mix between stupid comedy and very violent trash scenes (murder, incest, rape). I think this movie is really disconcerting for the occidental public. There is no morality, they deal with glaucous subjects with absurd humor. So, if you like the trash Asian way of making movies, try this one.

Really fun.

This is another Category III (CAT III) movie, starring Anthony Wong, so this is gonna be great !

The movie starts with Anthony Wong (cheers from the audience !) investigating a murder of an entire family, the only member of the family who is still alive is the young Wei Fong (played by Lily Chung, a CAT III hottie), after some evidences, Wei Fong decides to confess a sad story of abuse and violence....from her family.

Daughter of Darkness starts as a comedy, with the officer Lui (Anthony Wong) investigating the murder, making you to "forget" about the mean spirited and sad atmosphere that you was expecting. But after that Wei Fong decides to confess, the movie continues with THAT mean spirited and sad atmosphere that you was expecting ! Besides "The Untold Story", this is one of the ESSENTIAL CAT III movies, that every CAT III fan should check. The music is great for set up the "mood" of the scenes (especially of the "sad" ones). The performance of Anthony Wong was awesome, just like the one of Lily Chung. There are enough sex scenes to entertain the male audience.

One year prior to her excellent turn as Ming Ming in 'Bloody' Billy Tang's top Cat II shocker Red To Kill, Lily Chung played another hapless victim of violence and sexual abuse in Daughter of Darkness (also directed by Tang).

Chung plays Wei, a beautiful young woman who is tortured (mentally and physically) by her own family, until, one night, she finally snaps and sees to it that they will never harm her again.

After a gruesome opening scene, in which Wei reports the slaughter of her family to the cops, and the bloodbath is examined by a sleazy cop (ably played by Anthony Wong), the movie gives way to a series of lame comedic moments, which serve to belie the shocking nature of the movie as a whole.

However, once Wong's cop begins to unravel the truth about the grisly murders, the tone of the film shifts into much darker territory. Wei tells of her abuse and, in flashbacks, we see how, after being downtrodden by her mother and siblings, and repeatedly raped by her father, she savagely dispatches of her uncaring family.

Packed to the rafters with scenes of nudity (Chung isn't shy about stripping off), perversion, voyeurism, violence, and general sleaziness, Daughter of Darkness is a very good example of Cat III excess.

I see Daughter of Darkness as something of a practice run for Chung and Tang, whose next film together, Red to Kill, is the perfect Cat III experience. Daughter of Darkness isn't perfect, but fans of the genre will find much to enjoy in this ultimately dark and depressing slice of extreme cinema.

*** The Universe release, which I viewed, is the most complete official version of the film available on DVD, however it is shorn of some moments of violence which were in the original theatrical release. ***