Fiction
The Devil's Candy
Sean Byrne
USA 2015
90 min
V'15
Headhanging painter Jesse Hellman, similarly inclined teenage daughter Zooey and comparatively milquetoast wife/mom Astrid are excited to own their first home, a dirt-cheap but spacious old manse outside a Texas small town. The real-estate agent is required to inform them that the prior tenants died on sight: A woman fell down stairs to her death, apparently by accident, and her husband made a subsequent “can’t live without her” decision. What goes unmentioned is that their son, heavy-set heavy-metal aficionado Ray spent twenty years institutionalized after sacrificing a younger local child to his personal Lord, Satan, and was notably back in residence at the time of his parents’ demises ... (Dennis Harvey)
Credits
- Ethan Embry - Jesse Hellman
- Shiri Appleby - Astrid
- Pruitt Taylor Vince - Ray
- Kiara Glasco - Zooey
- Sean Burke
- Simon Chapman
- Andy Hay
- Colette D. Dahanne
- Andy Canny
- Michael Yezerski
- Sunn O
- Thomas S. Hammock
- Stacy Ellen Rich
HanWay Films
The Festival Agency
DCP
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