'Daughter of Horror' (1955) - John Parker/Bruno VeSota.

 

'The pulse of the neon lights like a hammer at your brain! Tormenting you! Haunting you!'

 

 

 

 

 

The hugely influential, eerily expressionistic nightmare 'Daughter of Horror' resolutely remains a deliciously unsettling, way off-beat psychodrama that acts as a short, sharp shock to the senses! A masterfully macabre, dreamily demented descent into the relentlessly mad monochrome monomaniacal mental miasma of a malignly murderous mind! Part febrile fever dream, part Neo-noir nightmare, 'Daughter of Horror' is a genuinely thrilling, visually sumptuous, thematically audacious, convention confounding crepuscular creep-fest that is no less astonishing today than when originally conceived way back in 1955. Immaculately shot in starkly beautiful B/W, excitingly performed without dialogue, and no less dramatically scored by George Antheil, the sublimely strange 'Daughter of Horror' aka 'Dementia' is the eerie equal of Herk Harvey's 'Carnival of Souls', or Polanski's 'Repulsion'. If you are fortunate enough to have never seen this Skid Row-set, uniquely moody monochromatic marrow-chiller, you are in for a revelatory cinematic experience, as you shall NOT see its singular like again!