{"id":3382,"date":"2009-10-24T18:04:31","date_gmt":"2009-10-24T22:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=3382"},"modified":"2009-10-24T18:05:13","modified_gmt":"2009-10-24T22:05:13","slug":"daughter-of-darkness-1990-stuart-gordon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/3382","title":{"rendered":"Daughter of Darkness (1990, Stuart Gordon)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Why, right after watching the classic original Dracula<\/a><\/em>, would I waste time on a cheapo 80’s made-for-TV vampire thriller? Because it’s one of only two<\/abbr> unseen titles on Stuart Gordon’s filmography, and SHOCKtober<\/a> seems like a good excuse to tackle the last of them.<\/p>\n

It’s a rare film indeed which stars Mia Sara (Ferris Bueller’s girlfriend) – looks like after Ferris Bueller<\/em> it was mostly this and Timecop<\/em>. She shows up… somewhere… Romania? I shouldn’t have waited three weeks before writing this. I’ve fallen behind, you see. The question comes up often, “watch movies or write about movies?” and watching them wins. So three weeks ago I watched a crappy vampire movie starring Mia Sara… in what country did it even take place? Let’s say Romania.<\/p>\n

Ferris’s girlfriend and her enchanted necklace:<\/em>
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Friendly cab driver Max, “Americans and me, we kill many nazis,” drives her around as she seeks her long-lost father. She has a dramatic encounter with Anthony Perkins (in between Psychos<\/em> 3 and 4) who says her father is dead, which clearly means Perkins is her father. Writer Andrew Laskos<\/abbr> apparently didn’t think we’d figure that one out.<\/p>\n

Perkins and Grigori:<\/em>
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Oh, but I said it was a vampire movie and I mentioned Romania. Yes, Perkins is a good vampire, and Mia’s love interest Grigori (Robert Reynolds of Howling 6: The Freaks<\/em>) is a bad vampire. The former wants to protect her, while the latter wants to have sex with her and create a race of super half-vampire babies like Blade<\/em> or Ultraviolet<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n

Anthony Perkins, sunburned vampire:<\/em>
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There’s a vampire war (a very minor one), Perkins is left in the sun, Mia rescues him, he saves her from Grigori killing them both, oh and the cab driver from before turns out to be a vampire crony. The movie apparently thought it now needed to rescue the derailed romantic subplot, so it pairs Mia up with an American ambassador (current Heroes<\/em> star Jack Coleman), who has only been grudgingly nice to Mia for the entire flick.<\/p>\n

“Shut up, I’m your new love interest!”<\/em>
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Wonder if this was Stuart Gordon’s sole interesting contribution or if this was in the script… the vampires don’t have fanged teeth, they have little toothy mouths in the tips of their tongues, like the girl’s breasts in Trapped Ashes<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Movie looks very made-for-TV, which it was. Gordon must’ve needed work after Dolls<\/a><\/em>, and fortunately (in the long run) didn’t get himself tied up in the Puppet Master<\/a><\/em> series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Why, right after watching the classic original Dracula, would I waste time on a cheapo 80’s made-for-TV vampire thriller? Because it’s one of only two unseen titles on Stuart Gordon’s filmography, and SHOCKtober seems like a good excuse to tackle the last of them. It’s a rare film indeed which stars Mia Sara (Ferris Bueller’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[708,54,87,59,52,186],"class_list":["post-3382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-anthony-perkins","tag-horror","tag-romania","tag-stuart-gordon","tag-television","tag-vampires"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3382"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3516,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3382\/revisions\/3516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}