Slow pace in the most part of the movie.

Best movie of this year hands down!

Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

DAUGHTER OF HORROR seems to be a cult 1950s low budget thriller held in high regard by other viewers of it, but I'm afraid it's the kind of film that left me cold throughout. I'm not really a huge fan of cult or experimental film-making as so often the directors concentrate on technical qualities and forget to entertain their viewers in the meantime, and that's the case here.The film is about a young woman whose journey takes place over the course of one night. She's assaulted psychologically and physically by various characters including her own family members and various small-time hoods and pimps. Occasionally a disturbing flashback will reveal her state of mind and the reasons for it. There's no dialogue in the film other than the sonorous narrator who constantly tells you what to think and feel, and that's the part that annoyed me the most. The film might have been better off without him. The photography is pretty good and creates a nightmarish atmosphere at times but overall I have to count this as a failure, albeit an interesting one.

What an odd little film. At just under an hour runtime- and with practically no dialogue- this mostly silent, noirish, horror-thriller is beautifully shot- and has more "gore" (a term used lightly here) than you'd expect to see in a film made in the 50's.In it, we follow a young woman out on the prowl for vengeance. A woman who was "born into horror"- for she was raised amidst a domestic abuse situation, during which she witnessed her alcoholic father murder her adulterous mother (hence the alternative title: Daughter Of Horror).She manages to enact revenge upon her father...and get away with it. And, thus, fancies herself a bit of a sociopath. But she also retains her extreme intolerance for misogyny.She sees the misogyny of her father reflected everywhere she goes...and it's pushing her toward the brink of insanity. She still fantasizes about murdering him. And she can't even leave the house at night without being accosted by every other guy on the street; acting like they own her.But this only pushes her toward her next act of vengeance. And this time she has a plan.She pretends to be a prostitute; and makes a deal with the local pimp (The Devil). He sets her up with one of his wealthy clients: her target; and he gets to keep the money.The man is a wealthy, glutton, and socialite, with a penchant for beautiful young women. And he just so happens to be the same john that his mother was seeing, when her father was driven to bitter, alcohol-induced insanity, and murder...She has chosen to hang with the devils and walk with the ghouls, but is she really cut out for this path to Hell? Or is this Hell but a construct of her imagination, stemming from her guilt? The double twist at the end, reveals why everything turns so bizarre in the latter portion of the film, at least.What makes this film so odd, is that it first comes off as if it is feminist, in nature. Like she's a superhero, of sorts: wandering the streets; luring in unsuspecting misogynists to their deaths. I mean, her actions are at least somewhat justified- in a Dexter sort of sense- you'd think. But the narration, and guilt trip she is sent on, kind of throw this into question- making the whole thing seem more like it was meant to be a propaganda piece, teaching the misogynistic patriarchy about the dangers of raising a young feminist-minded daughter. It's really hard to read what the "motive" of this film was for contemporary viewers, from a modern context. However, with that being said, it's certainly worth a watch for it's attractive mise-en-scene; bloodless gore; and that epic jazz sequence at the end.6 out of 10.

A wonderfully odd surrealist film made in 1953 that is reminiscent of the German expressionist films of the 1920s. A primly dressed young woman asleep in a dingy urban hotel room wakes up, puts a knife in her pocket and wanders the streets of a dystopian city filled with lecherous and violent men. A newspaper headline shouts of a stabbing. Is she responsible? In a flashback in a graveyard, we learn her father was a drunk who beat her. Her mother's sin was reading magazines, eating chocolates and seeing other men, which leads to her being murdered by her husband. In a way, the "horror" of the film is the ways women try to accommodate themselves to living in a male world. Women are prostitutes, downtrodden cleaning women, beaten wives or seductresses in this sick and unfair world. Perhaps the heroine's sin is simply the fact that she has the temerity that act out her anger at her fate instead of passively enduring it like the other women in the film. What's interesting to me is the fact that even though she's constantly characterized as being "evil" by the boorish male-voice over, she actually comes across as quite respectable and intelligent (maybe that's what ultimately makes her so threatening to the men). Daughter of Horror has low-budget, but creatively noir cinematography and a wonderful scene at a jazz club at the end. Daughter of Horror is truly avant-garde in the way it looks ahead to both the underground films of the sixties as well as the feminist movement.

The movie is about a day in the life of a woman who is going insane. To show that she is mentally ill, she overacts a lot and the narrator tells us she's "going mad". Along the way, she goes out with a fat guy who looks like he could be Orson Welles' brother and he later takes a header off a building in one of the only interesting moments in the movie.This is a strange little film that is very cheaply made--and it sure shows. The film was shot without sound (probably using 8mm or some other cheap type of film) and had some sound effects and an overbearing narration added later. In fact, the narration was the most obtrusive and unintentionally hilarious I have ever heard and it is said in such a silly and over-the-top manner you'd just have to hear it to believe it. As a result of these cost-cutting actions, it's not surprising that the film is bad, though the idea of trying to make this sort of film was pretty original. Plus, it's VERY hard to make it through the entire film.