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It's been thirteen years since my IMDb review for Daughter of Darkness, so my memory is a little hazy, but this sequel, which was made the year after the original, seems to follow the same formula: lots of typically wacky bad-taste HK comedy with a little gratuitous sex/nudity, followed by the nasty stuff.

The film opens with bumbling cops investigating the killing of a family, which results in such hilarity as the sexual molestation of a (presumed dead) woman, group masturbation, and the eating of a semen covered mango by a big-chested female cop. I can't say I found any of this particularly funny, but each to their own.

Thirty minutes or so of such silliness and we're finally headed for the more extreme content that Cat III films are renowned for: sexual violence, rape, murder, and more. It all starts as suspect Sau (Yim Lai Cheng) recounts her story to the police chief...

Sau and her husband Ken (Ben Ng) are driving through the countryside when they swerve off the road to avoid hitting some people; instead, they almost run over thug Hung (Ka-Kui Ho), who demands compensation with menace. Friendly local Kun (Dick Lau) comes to the couple's rescue and offers them a place to stay while their car is fixed.

Kun quickly becomes good friends with the couple, but clearly has an eye for the lovely Sau, which is why Ken, impotent as the result of a war wound, asks him to perform a favour: impregnate his wife so that he can have a son. Obviously Kun agrees, especially since Ken is willing to pay handsomely for the task!

Having thoroughly enjoyed himself, Kun decides he wants more of the lovely (and accommodating) Sau, but this time they are photographed in the act by Hung and his son. With proof of Sau's infidelity, Hung demands a large sum of cash from Ken in return for the photos. While they wait for him to find the money, the blackmailers take Sau to their home, where they rape her, to the amusement of Hung's equally wicked wife.

Ken finally arrives with the money and leaves with his wife, who goes to the doctor to find that she is not only pregnant but also infected with syphilis. There's only one thing for the lady to do: in the film's most nauseating moment, Sau takes a coat hanger and performs a home abortion in the shower. Unfortunately, Ken just happens to catch her in the act, and goes to find Hung looking for revenge, which results in him being roughed up and chucked in front of a moving truck.

With Ken gone, Sau turns to Kun for help in evening the score, but when he leaves (after bonking Sau one last time, of course), it is up to her to take revenge, which she does in a variety of nasty ways, including the use of a board of nails, a bear trap, a big knife and a sharp bamboo pole.

In following the blueprint of the original, DOD2 doesn't qualify as an essential classic of the genre (it's no The Untold Story or Red to Kill), but the exploitative sex, nudity, and violence should keep most fans of Cat III nastiness happy for the duration.

6.5/10, rounded up to 7 for IMDb.

Well, usually now I go into CATIII flicks with a pretty high expectation factor. Only a couple out of the bunch I've watched have disappointed me, but Daughter of Darkness II definitely does not disappoint.

The cops discover three massacred bodies, from this point the main cop/detective interviews a woman who he believes is somewhat connected to the case. The interview is really just the woman telling a story to the officer. Movie now goes into flashback mode while she's telling the officer the story. The story that follows is classic CATIII material, with violence, rape, great female nudity, sex....you know the deal.

The movie itself is very entertaining. The story/flashback part is the serious, and better part, and any part with the cops is the silly part. Some people don't care for that humor, but I find it fun and pretty damn silly. Though I am pretty down about the female cop not showing her breasts....she had huge boobs. Shame, shame, shame. Anyways, this is another CATIII winner and definitely check it out if you dig other CATIII material.

I was very pleasantly surprised by DAUGHTER OF DARKNESS 2. This turned out to be a very strong film with plenty of good acting, plot twists, and sleazy sex and violence (the whole reason we watch this CAT III sh!t in the first place!!!).

The story is similar to DAUGHTER 1, some inept cops are called in to a crime scene where an entire family is brutally murdered, and they have to find the killer. The first part of the film is silly, with slapstick humor and gross-out jokes, in the way that HK directors seemed to almost invariably do with these types of film (with only a few notable exceptions...) but after the fun and games, the real story unfolds. A couple meets a nice young man who gives them a place to stay after a minor car accident. The couple end up staying for a few days, and when the husband catches the young man "peeping" on his wife bathing, he makes the man an offer. He confides that he can not get his wife pregnant due to an old war wound, and offers the man money to bang his wife so that they can have a son. The man obliges but becomes emotionally attached to the wife, obviously causing problems all-around. The wife is then unexpectedly kidnapped by a family of weirdos and is held for a high ransom. Husband decides to do something about it, and all manner of CAT III hi-jinx ensue...

DAUGHTER OF DARKNESS is all-in-all a very strong film. The acting is good, the sex and violence is thick and sleazy, and there are some really decent plot twists that make this film quite enjoyable. The downside: it takes a while to get going, and the over-the-top humor in the beginning clashes notably with the feel of the rest of the film. Also notably missing are Anthony Wong and Lily Chung from DAUGHTER 1, but the players in this one do a good enough job. Highly Recommended - personally enjoyed this one more than part 1...8/10