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 ...