The story is quite simple, Lily Chung plays the young daughter who is found as the only survivor when the rest of her family have been massacred. Although she's not as innocent as she seems but on the other hand there were tons of factors that drove her to it and that would have driven other people to it as well for sure. Constantly being raped by her father and actualy bullied like hell by her own family made her take revenge.
I think of all the Hong Kong Cat III movies out there this is actually one of the few that actually feel most real and kinda brutal to watch at times. What I mean is that the other Cat III movies often, while being bizarre and bloody, still have such a big amount of humour in them that you can never take them really seriously and that's what differs them from Daughter of Darkness which is a movie that is just plain dark.
It's not a spoiler and just because you know what's gonna happen doesn't mean that you can't watch the movie plus there's more to it then mentioned here. If you enjoy Cat III movies then this one is for you, but forget the idiotic humour this time and instead get ready for a disturbing experience. It's actually kinda hard to sit and watch the way her family treats her, it's not funny nor entertaining, just sick but it's still makes a good movie and is definitely worth to watch.
 
Anthony Wong has a role in the movie as a police man and he's always fun to see on screen, and he of course has his moments here too which are quite sick ones and of the very dark humour kind but still great to watch. He's not nearly as twisted as in Ebola Syndrome though so don't expect anything like that, it's two completely different movies.
Daughter of Darkness is a bit different from many other Cat III movies but if you're into to the genre and haven't seen it yet, I suggest you give it a shot.
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ALTERNATIVE TITLE: Mie men can an zhi nie sha
MOVIE YEAR: 1993
DIRECTOR: Kai Ming Lai
WRITING CREDITS: Kai Ming Lai
GENRE: Horror, Cat III
CAST: Lily Chung, Ka-Kui Ho, Anthony Wong
COUNTRY: Hong Kong
RUNTIME: 96 min
RATING: 7/10
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