Slaughter Daughter (2012)

Great Film overall

Bad Acting and worse Bad Screenplay

To all those who have watched it: I hope you enjoyed it as much as I do.

The acting in this movie is really good.

Farrah (Nicola Fiore) is a mentally ill former beauty queen who develops an unhealthy passion for convicted serial killer Jackson Miles (Tim Dax). She meets with Miles to get instructions on the best way to kill her family. Mom (Leesa Rowland) is getting remarried and has a relationship with her other daughter (Deborah Das).The film needed better dialogue. Christine Hoberg did a great job as the wedding singer, but the rest of the soundtrack was hit and miss. Lloyd Kaufman managed a cameo as the minister, which always changes the mood whenever he is in the film, serious role or not. The cast was mostly from his former films. The ending, which you expected, took too long to arrive.Guide: F-word. Sex. Nudity (Nicola Fiore, Tim Dax-brief, Danny Morales-butt)

SLAUGHTER DAUGHTER is a bit better than your usual garden variety indie horror film. It has proper characterisation, for one, and if it's still rather cheap and unwieldy, at least it resembles a proper movie more than most. The attempts at character depth means that it's more involving than expected and the story, about a maladjusted young woman who becomes convinced she needs to kill her overbearing mother, is quite interesting. It's still cheap and silly, with unconvincing acting at times, but at least it keeps you watching throughout and the ending is suitably bloody.

If you know what you are in the mood for and what you are getting, Slaughter Daughter is OK. If you're in the mood for a poorly written, poorly acted slaughter with a lot of promise of T&A and some delivery, this will do. Nicola Fiore is a beautiful woman, worth keeping your eyes on, weirdly moreso when she starts hacking into people. The only interesting acting in the film came from the man who play's Fiore's character's mentor in psychopathy, Tim Dax, who clearly felt no need to mentor anyone as an actor. Worth the time unless you were hoping for something worth the time.

I was positive that this was another Ulli Lommel flick, It had all of his signatures: terrible acting, terrible writing, terrible direction, billions of flashbacks,flash forwards, flash everything, obsession with a serial killer, weird actors that could only be in a Lommel flick, a little nudity, and the typical Lommel murder set-pieces. To my surprise, there is actually someone out there who seems to have modeled himself after the 'master'! I don't agree with the thousands of people who give Lommel's films one star; there is some imagination going on in all of Lommel's films, and Slaughter Daughter shows the same type of imagination. The only problem is the general incompetence that truly makes it worthy of the 'master' himself.