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She's sweet, sixteen, and she simply loves her daddy..... she'll slaughter you if you love him too.
A teenage girl whose inaction caused her mother's death arranges a similarly gruesome fate for her stepmother and brother.
Julie Darling
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亲爱的朱莉, Déjala morir adentro, Un amour assassin, 쥴리 다아링
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01 Mar 1983
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Germany
01 Mar 1983
- Physical16 genauer Veröffentlichungstag unbekannt
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01 Mar 1983
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This was a doozy.... A low budget, fucked up family dynamic grime-fest with father infatuated Julie wasting no time letting us know how much she despises her mother... even watching (and letting) a sleazeball rapist deliver Diet Pepsi to their house before murdering her... and Julie’s seemingly nice Dad already having Sybil Danning ready to go on speed dial after his wife was just raped and killed.
Julie even peeps on her dad and Sybil doing it and has a sex fantasy where she’s doing her dad—there’s sleaze everywhere, a refrigerator attempted child murder, a classic ridiculous moment of an 80’s scumbag with porn magazine pages on his wall, Julie hiring the rapist murderer of her mom to kill her…
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With sincere apologies to The Knack.
Ooh, my little pretty snake, Mom's breath you'll take
Another spoon of Quick for Julie Darling!Ooh, Mom's in some trouble deep, grocery creep
Who dropped a shot and let her die? Julie Darling!Never gonna stop, daddy's girl, what's her age
I don't know, she's had that shit erased off every page
That dude, who played her dad, must have known she's underage
My, my, my, aye-aye, whoa!
Ju-Ju-Ju Julie Darling!Sybil you're in trouble, Boo, your kid is too
Don't let him play no games with Julie Darling!Locked inside a fridge, this killer kid
Only daddy lives, the rest Die, My Darling!Fantasy non-stop, she's on top, such a dirty mind…
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Julie Darling is the literal translation of a reversed-role Psycho, but with minimal character development. Let’s also not forget there is a lack of iconic moments that the aforementioned Hitchcock has in spades. The 1983 film leans more into its shock value and the evil predations of a young teen girl who seeks her father’s love, rather than digressing on what disturbs her. There is one great scene where she spies on her father and her new stepmom and has a vision of herself in the same bed. Otherwise, the venture into her life is average at best, as the film remains mostly static and uninspired in its supposedly revelatory moments.
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For badder or worser, it’s in Julie Darling I learn the appeal of the exploitation: intimate lunacy into the pathos of behind-closed-doors taboos. Isabelle Mejias easily broods lost innocence and insanity, a Norman Bates teenage nightmare with large round eyes radiating adorable psychopathy. There is something about a teenie girl wielding a shotgun that does tickle me pink and it’s spirit of daddy issues is handled offensively straight into a tawdry scene that was unexpected — so either it’s props for successful shocking or “maybe we shouldn’t be doing this”, I’ll let you decide. The appeal is for the Sybil Danning appearance, which I don’t quite understand and am open to explanation. It has all the ugly flower power of…
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Rare to find a movie that can truly baffle you with its lo-fi production choices and still engage you on a narrative level. Julie Darling is one of those though, a truly warped family melodrama with enough blood to fill the second half of a Peckinpah western and squirm-inducing father-daughter interactions for Christian Prom. Brought to you by Diet Pepsi.
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Julie a disturbed teenage girl with a unusual, unhealthy infatuation with her "Daddy" sees her overbearing mother get killed and then Julie's green-eyed monster emerges when her "Daddy" suddenly starts a new life with a step "mommy" and a little step brother for Julie.
This film was uncomfortable and disturbing just by the character Julie totally infatuated with her father and the her thoughts of what she wanted to do with him.
The performances were definitely convincing enough to disturb and give the viewer a uneasy feeling. A couple small scenes in the last 15 minutes were too dark to see what was going on but the viewer could tell what was happening.
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6.8/10🤪Crazy for 80'z Horrorz & Thrillerz
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Julie, a cold-hearted teen girl with a serious crush on her father, hesitates to prevent the rape of her mother, which ends in her death. Julie didn’t like her much anyway, and seems pretty content afterward, immediately cutting her mom out of a family photo so it’s just her and daddy, and really relishing putting a third scoop of Nestle Quik into her chocolate milk, which her mom used to chastise her for. But then the dad remarries (like, days later), to Sybil Danning, and the girl plans a similar fate for her new step-mom, tracking down and hiring her mother’s killer to do it. Isabelle Mejias as the smart, petulant, sociopathic kid is fantastic. She’s even a believable match…
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You know you're in for a good time when you see a movie open with an Aquarius Releasing card.
Not sure if it's just because this is Canadian, but everything about this just feels about 5-10 years out of date, but in a good way. Combining the torrid psychosexual premise of any number of early 70s exploitation films (think The Baby) with the sort of ugly nihilism of the back-end of the decade, this is both completely repugnant and compulsively watchable. Sybil Danning is usually the highlight of anything she's in, but Isabelle Mejias is the real MVP here, giving a performance that's so creepily believable that it makes the entire film work that much more.
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"If you really have nothing better to do for the next two hours then go ahead and watch Julie Darling, but only if you really have nothing better to do."
A sleazier take on the killer kid movie, Julie Darling is a trashy Canadian thriller about a teenage girl that's far too fixated on her father. After intentionally failing to save her mother from being killed by an intruder, Julie thinks she has him all to herself. When he quickly remarries, Julie begins plotting the murder of her new stepmother and brother. The Code Red blu-ray opens with the introduction above from Isabelle Mejias who plays Julie in the film but I'd say if you enjoy trashy thrillers in the vein of Scream for Help and Butcher, Baker, Nightmare Maker, then this is a pretty wonderful way to spend two hours.
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To be fair, you don’t have to be a NesQuick fiending, classical music listening, rat-torturing, gun toting child sociopath to see that all the adults around you are terrible fucking people.
I’m not saying they deserve to die, but they are a bunch of self-absorbed boomer assdicks and it’s hard to care for them when Isabelle Mejias is coming off so cool.
And you, the dad, Harold, or whatever your name is. What the fuck is wrong with you? You move another woman into your daughter’s life a month after her mother, your wife, has been murdered and your daughter witnessed it?
It's true that your daughter had the murderer of your wife in her hunting rifle sites but then…
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All because her mother got her snake thrown out. She should finished them both off then and there, then the stepmother and that weasel.