Opportunities to see the rather refined Siobhan McKenna play a loony Irish serial killer don't swing around that often, but May 16 at the IFI is the time and place to be for Daughter of Darkness, a little-known trashy thriller from 1948 that comes on like a B-movie Powell & Pressburger. "For a film of absolutely no reputation, with zero out of four in Halliwell's, directed by a man regarded with as much respect as Ed Wood, this Gothic psychodrama is really rather good," says our man at IMDB, who's obviously a little too au fait with the whole 'damned with faint praise' rigmarole ...
Wednesday, May 9, 2007
Girls Just Wanna Have Fun. And A Corpse Or Two About The Place, Apparently
Opportunities to see the rather refined Siobhan McKenna play a loony Irish serial killer don't swing around that often, but May 16 at the IFI is the time and place to be for Daughter of Darkness, a little-known trashy thriller from 1948 that comes on like a B-movie Powell & Pressburger. "For a film of absolutely no reputation, with zero out of four in Halliwell's, directed by a man regarded with as much respect as Ed Wood, this Gothic psychodrama is really rather good," says our man at IMDB, who's obviously a little too au fait with the whole 'damned with faint praise' rigmarole ...
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Declan Burke has published a number of novels, the most recent of which is ABSOLUTE ZERO COOL. As a journalist and critic, he writes and broadcasts on books and film for a variety of media outlets, including the Irish Times, RTE, the Irish Examiner and the Sunday Independent. He has an unfortunate habit of speaking about himself in the third person. All views expressed here are his own and are very likely to be contrary.
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