Daughter of Darkness

Post-war Gothic thriller featuring Britain's first female serial killer.

In the small Irish town of Ballyconnen, Emmy Baudine (Siobhan McKenna) is a beautiful but disturbed young woman who works for the local priest.

When the carnival comes to town, she encounters a handsome young boxer called Dan (Maxwell Reed), and lays his face open with her fingernails when he expects sexual favours from her.

Hurriedly packed off to Yorkshire by Father Corcoran (Liam Redmond), Emmy is taken in by a farming family and manages to suppress the strange feelings of fascination and revulsion that she experiences in the presence of the opposite sex.

Until, that is, the carnival comes to town and she finds herself face to face with Dan who is out for revenge...