[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Bad Candy (2020)

An fantastic looking if not 100% successful Halloween horror anthology of six tales of local legends as told by local DJ's Corey Taylor and Zach Galligan.

Creatively the film is excellent. There's some great gore on offer and it really has that eighties day-glow wild effects look to it ala Poltergeist. Some of the cinematography and framing is brilliantly done and the imagery is often startling and weird and delightfully unpredictable. The death metal soundtrack is also rather cool and overall the film has a proper 1980's comic book vibe to it.

Acting is decent as is the dialogue, some of it very amusing with several in jokes, but as is often the case with anthologies the individual stories vary in quality although in true Trick r' Treat style it's great to see them all interlocking throughout the film even if they don't actually converge at the end.

Of the freaky tales my faves were both early doors. The first being the drug dealer who goes to the shit hole lavatory in search of a glory hole, and the sexy mortician in her naughty nurse costume who fantasizes about f*cking a dread guy on her slab - This has a proper Fulci-esq ending to it.

Ultimately Bad Candy is a film i first saw last year and gave it another spin and i guess it's one i'll sporadically return to because the imagery is so beautifully stylized. (And nothing to do with that saucy nurse either)