The Devil's Candy (2017)

Sometimes it takes a while for a film to fully be appreciated. After I watched the film, I gave it only a 6/10 as I felt it was okay, even though I really enjoyed it and liked the script. However, after a year has passed I thought I would come back and give it some thought and I realized that It is a really food film with a very good script and deserves to be up there with other similar horror movies of note.

Although this movie is classified as a horror film, it is not a slasher movie. It is much more of a suspenseful and "beautifully disturbing" type of movie (which are the best kind of horror films). It makes beautiful biblical analogies all the way up until the credits, from the names of characters, to the plot itself, yet from a heavy metal, modern-day lens. A wonderfully filmed movie with a fantastic hard-rocking score. An absolute must watch!

It look promissing at the time , but in the end its just a classic neo traditional horror flick like you can see every month in the cinema . the only thing disturbing there is the underlying christian message along with some basic metal riff that have not a lot to do with the story . I love metal along with some other music but the way it is representated in this movie reduce this genre and culture as a boring cliche . Along that , i haven't found any deep in the character execept in the quality of their headbanging , no real horror either and please don't tell me that it is more the psychological type, it is not . Just Mainstrem , nice photo , pretty people ... it may not be a cold day yet but apparently its a cheap day i Hell.

A film about Satan and the devil, how classic. There's an undercurrent of pure dread to this flick. It works its way through the film's veins using music cues, whispering demonic voices and haunting images. Ethan Embry's performance is superbly crafted. A well-meaning dad, that rocks out to metal and paints pictures all day. He feels very real and not like a caricature. (He also gets ripped for this flick, I guess because he paints shirtless for a few scenes. It seems unnecessary, distracting and unfitting for his character but sure).He begins to hear voices and see things and paint horrible stuff he doesn't understand. It's all very unnerving and convincing and seems to be leading to some inevitable catastrophe.But the film lets up in the home stretch. It becomes a bit of a supernatural home invasion flick. The film seems undecided about whether there are real demons at play, which unfocuses the movie and makes it seem unsure of itself. The film isn't exactly about investigating the place demons have in the modern world either. It just knows they are inextricably linked with metal. A lot of the build-up seems for naught in the end and it's a real shame. Byrne has great ideas, a wonderful grasp of character, atmosphere, tension, but maybe not enough to say?