Dead Daughters


Dead Daughters is a Russian arthouse horror film directed by Pavel Ruminov.

Plot

In present-day Moscow, a woman Vera is waiting in her car for a traffic light to change, when a seemingly crazy man Max gets into her car and demands that she drive away immediately. She agrees to take him to a restaurant, where he tells her that three sisters who were drowned by their mother have returned as spirits, and now roam the city seeking vengeance. Max warns Vera that the sisters watch their victims for three days, and if they do anything that the sisters find evil or bad, that person is then murdered. Max then asks Vera if he can sleep at her house for the night. She agrees and takes him to her door, where she closes the door when he is outside, he yells at her and bangs on the door. He then runs away and is killed at what seems to be a train-yard.
Vera then calls over some of her friends Anna, Anton, Nikita, Stepan and Rita and tells them the story. She wakes up the next morning and dies sometime through the course of the day. Her friends then meet for lunch and discuss that they must try to be as good as possible for the next 3 days. They all go about this in different ways. Anna spends her time trying to find out about the whole story, and try to stop the sisters. Rita, goes about her days normally, while being as nice to people as she can. Stepan covers his walls in Holy Cross' and throws out all his alcohol and pornography. Nikita tells all the local district about the ghosts . Anton tries to be nice to people, it is not certain how he is seen as evil by the sisters, possibly because he goes to a party on the last day he is killed by a tornado of darts all flying around him, stabbing into him into him slowly killing him. Anna eventually finds out that there is a fourth sister, and upon visiting her, the sister says nothing other than that she has left her old life behind, Anna gives the fourth sister her number and says she is expecting her to call. The next day the fourth sister calls Anna, and gives her the dress of the daughters' mother. After her friends all die, Anna then puts on the dress of the mother, and is briefly possessed by her spirit, the spirit speaks through her telling the daughters to leave this world. The ending scene shows Anna sitting at a table, she then gets up off the table and grabs a pile of books off the table and leaves the shot, the film the abruptly ends.

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