A girl’s first love is always her father. He’s the most important male figure in a woman’s life, and how he treats his relationship with his daughter will have a tremendous effect on how she turns out. In horror, a father can create a monster, or he can create a girl who fears the monster. Here are the top 10 daddy’s girls in the genre.
Honorable mentions to Karen from Night of the Living Dead, Maggie from Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare, and Kristy from Hellraiser.
Top 10 Daddy's Girls
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#10 Angela Ashford
Resident Evil: Apocalypse - Being the reason that the T-virus was created and the reason that the zombie apocalypse began gives you no reason to complain. When your father created the virus in order to cure you from a genetic disease, you can’t really be a bad kid either. Angela is the most important thing in Dr. Ashford’s life, and he proves that by risking the lives of millions of others.
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#9 India Stoker
Stoker - When the one person who means anything to you dies, your world would understandably unravel. For India Stoker, her father’s death acts as her personal rebirth. While her father was alive, India was trained to suppress her urges and take out her energy on harmless things. However, once he dies and her uncle comes home, India takes what her father taught her and interprets it in a new way.
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#8 Annie
Halloween - Being the daughter of the town sheriff almost gives you a reason to be a smartass, and Annie Brackett is the type of know-it-all who will give you a hard time just for kicks. The opinionated young teen feels entitled to do whatever she wants, and her need to break the rules gets her in the kind of trouble that she could only wish her father was there to rescue her from.
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#7 Alexa
The Hills Run Red - When your father is known for making an infamous horror movie that vanished along with him, you are bound to have some problems. For Alexa, her daddy issues are never-ending. Not only did the young woman fall into the stripper stereotype, but she had a taste for blood and film that only her dad could understand. Her passion and need to make her father proud morphed the buxom blonde into a character crazy enough for a horror movie.
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#6 Ellie
Halloween III: Season of the Witch - When Ellie’s father is mysteriously murdered, she seeks out to find the truth. Except, she quickly forgets her mission when she lays her eyes upon the mustache-wearing womanizer Dr. Challis - and who can blame her? In the midst of investigating her father’s final days, Ellie shows that ladies need some love too, when she slyly asks Challis where he would like to spend the night.
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#5 Molly
Lovely Molly - Having your father abuse you while you were younger is good enough a reason to pick up drugs, and when he begins haunting you later in life, drugs seem like the only thing that can fix your problem. For Molly, her drug addiction is the least of her worries when she begins experiencing unexplainable activity in her home and begins acting out of character. She quickly learns that a daughter can’t escape her father’s love, even after death.
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#4 Tina
Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood - Fathers beware: if you upset your telekinetic daughter she will kill you. When Tina returns to her childhood home to come to terms with her father’s death, she runs into Jason Voorhees and proves to be a strong competitor. When she is about to lose her battle with the monster, her dead father jumps out of the lake and takes Jason under with him. Because that’s what fathers are for - even if they are dead!
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#3 Lola
The Loved Ones - Lola is a spoiled brat and her daddy only adds fuel to her fire by giving her whatever she wants, even if what she wants is to brutally torture a young man. With her daddy by her side, Lola dishes out pain in clever ways while he is there to keep her victims in line.
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#2 Iris & Rose
We Are What We Are - Some fathers have a presence about them that speaks volumes about their character. Frank Parker is the type of parent who sets strict rules and if those rules are broken, there will be consequences. Iris and Rose have learned to do whatever their father asks of them, even if he orders them to kill and cannibalize people. He eventually learns firsthand that raising his daughters to eat people will come back to bite him in the ass - literally.
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#1 Erin
You're Next - Growing up on a survivalist compound in the Australian Outback must have been a total drag for Erin when she was a kid, but her learned skills came in handy years later for a family reunion gone awry. When the petite beauty finds herself in the middle of a massacre, she uses the resources her father taught her, remains calm and holds her own against masked attackers who mistakenly brush her off as a meek little girl. Daddy’s girls may look innocent, but more often than not they know how to handle themselves. Some have learned how to be a better person from their fathers, and a lot have grown into the type of woman that others learn to fear. Who are your favorite daddy’s girls?
