EssenceStory Well Deserved Praise

Cubussoli Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

MoPoshy Absolutely brilliant

Huievest Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

Greenzombidog This is something of a strange one. Julie loves her daddy and wants him all to herself so when she witnesses a delivery guy attempting to sexually assault her mother she does nothing to help which ends in her mothers death. Now Julie has daddy all to herself and everything is perfect until her fathers mistress turns up with her son in tow. Julie doesn't want the competition so she goes about trying to get rid of the two usurpers.I went into this hoping it was going to be a killer kid film along the lines of 'Bloody birthday' or 'Mikey' but it's not it's more of a thriller. I found it quite dull and with the exception of a disturbing incestuous daydream on Julies part I'd seen it all before. Some of the dialogue between Julie's father (Anthony Franciosa) and his lady friend (Sybil Danning) is pure cheese. At times I thought I'd started watching a Danielle Steele TV movie. The acting isn't that great even from the stars of the movie add to that some truly ridiculous plot developments and you end up with a film thats quite hard to take seriously.For me the most disappointing thing was that Julie didn't do enough evil stuff. She wasn't a particularly likable character So I never found myself rooting for her. What the film does do well is maintain a creepy unsettling feeling around the father daughter relationship through out the movie. This was the only thing that kept me watching.Julie Darling promises much at the beginning but fails to deliver.

Steve Nyland (Squonkamatic) Crackerjack thriller here, a deeply twisted film about a budding 12 year old psychopath's obsession with her own father and willingness to kill off anyone who comes between them. Tony Franciosa is good as the befuddled, utterly clueless father, Sybil Danning even better as the sex maven MILF single parent whom he is in love with, and the show is completely stolen by Isabelle Mejias as young Julie.One thing I kept wondering about through the film: Does Julie know that her feelings for her father are twisted, and that her actions are wrong if not outright evil? The film scores points by not letting the viewer find out whether she actually knows right from wrong. Hitchcock would have been impressed by the plotting, especially the killing of a young child by a sex murderer who is rewarded for playing a part in young Julie's scheme by being set up for his own execution. The ending is also inevitable, or rather the only ending that was possible given the material. Anything else would have been a cop-out, and there is a knowing glint in someone's eye when it's all over to suggest that they didn't have a problem with how everything worked out.One aspect of the film that's very interesting is the early 1980s polyester culture in which the film is set, which upon further research proves to be both Toronto, Canada and then West Berlin, Germany, seamlessly edited together into a strange, unwelcoming urban hell. Everything looks cold (the film is set in the winter), unhealthy (at one point a character stops by a Burger King to scarf down a Whopper on the run), impersonal (a key scene is set in a crowded shopping mall) and hopelessly tacky (the stairwell in Franciosa's mansion is festooned with a mass of framed pictures arranged in a way that makes them impossible to be seen individually) in a way that feels unique to the time period.You also couldn't make this movie today. It's too sick, twisted, amoral and politically incorrect. Another commenter nails it perfectly when referring to the film as "Bratsploitation", and modern viewers will be hard pressed to equate the film with anything later than THE GOOD SON, which lacks the psycho-sexual tension that raises JULIE DARLING's quease level beyond mere camp. Recommended as a double bill with William Grefe's IMPULSE with William Shatner. Creepy.8/10

johnc2141 Im a big fan of Sybil Danning,she ruled the eighties,a real tough but sexy woman from Austria,i saw this one from the suspense classics 50 movie collection.and i can tell you its a real nail biter of a movie. sort of like the Macaulay culken thriller the good son.but this little girl is much more disturbed and evil.not to mention slick and calculating.she has a pet python and even locks her stepbrother in a refrigerator that is kept outside.why is it outside?? who knows.this thriller also stars late great Italian actor;Anthony Franciosca as dear old dad.the film is Italian/American made and in the beginning it shows the new york skyline showing the world trade center.I'm not giving any spoilers but ill tell you.nobody messes with Sybil Danning. and if you wanna see a good well made suspense flick,then Julie darling is the ticket.7 out of 10.

gridoon This extremely obscure thriller (unavailable almost everywhere) is unpleasant and highly unsettling, but at the same time undeniably effective. The premise of an evil child is taken to extremes: teenager Isabelle Mejias (who delivers her lines like a pro and is frighteningly convincing) lies, blackmails, arranges for people to be killed and kills herself with cold, calm ease. The film also has some perverse scenes (let's just say it goes beyond merely suggesting incest) that will turn most people off, but you have to admit that what it does, it does well (and that includes a shock ending that, for once, DOES come as a shock - forget about "Friday The 13TH"). (**1/2)