Dead Daughters review

category: dvd, review, foreign

Russian film, Dead Daughters, from newcomer Pavel Ruminov is a ghost story horror. The story goes like this: There were three dead daughters, their mom drowned them, they were pissed, came back from the dead to kill their mom, they're still pissed so they stick around to kill more. They follow around a person for three days and if that person does something bad they kill that person and then follow the person that saw the that person alive last. Kinda remind you of watching a video and days later you die? Ring? Very similar premise. Although this doesn't deliver as well as The Ring did.

On the positive side, it is very well filmed with good use of lighting and natural lighting. The sound design is very nice taking full use of surround sound to build tension. However, the tension never goes anywhere. It appears the director wants to build quite a few times but as soon as it's getting good it cuts to another seen. He wants to imply whats going on rather than showing it. This works for some films such as The Sword Bearer which i recently reviewed but not this one. There is no story. The history of the ghosts are laid out at the beginning and the whole film follows these characters around until their impending death arrives. Only one of the characters decides to dig more into the story of the daughters to find something out that could save her. This is the directors first feature length film. Before this he had only done short films. This could of been a good short as only about fifteen minutes of the movie kept my interest.