The day after her sixth birthday, a man's daughter is abducted from her bedroom and turns up brutally murdered shortly thereafter. Over six months pass and he's no less grief-stricken as he's trying to cope and carry on with his life, all while the investigation is turning up very little information as far as suspects. However, some incidental clues happen to come his way, revealing to him the identity of his little girl's killer. From there, he goes about inflicting some bloody payback through various, homemade torture apparatuses on the pool table in his basement...
Where "Daddy's Little Girl" totally nails it is in the heart-wrenching portion of the film dealing with the father's loss and his hopelessness in the prospect of seeing justice served. We get a great sense of the brutality behind the daughter's murder (as well as other young victims of this sadistic bastard, as written in his 'diary') so when things shift into torture-mode you're completely on board with the enraged father and his vengeful plans. From this point there's some pretty unflinching acts of eye-for-an-eye brand pain-infliction; involving a "knee splitter", some tubing/barb-wire 'treatment' (prepare to clench...) and much more. Some pretty damn effective and cringe-worthy stuff of tap in this one, though there's enough substance and development to the set-up to keep the film from ever coming across as overtly 'exploitative'. Highly recommending "Daddy's Little Girl"!
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