Review of Daddy's Girl (1996) by Kenny N — 12 Feb 2015

For reasons which are unknown even to me, I've become a connoisseur of the "evil child" genre of film. It is a genre that requires great skill and actors in building a credible, well-told story.

I give this otherwise completely forgettable and laughably bad example of the genre a single star because you can see the germs of good ideas in amongst the many poorly executed scenes you see in the end product.

First of all, the title character doesn't really have what it takes to generate fear. The actress portraying her (who I recognized from an episode of "The Nanny") just doesn't have what it takes to create the kind of creepy, unsettling evil being that a movie like this desperately needs to succeed.

And if you don't have a good child actor playing the evil child, the whole enterprise will be a waste of time. Which this is. What COULD have been "The Bad Seed" of the '90s is instead a forgettable misfire that the folks at RiffTrax could work wonders with.