“Take it easy, baby! You’re just bein’ kidnapped!”
This weekend the guys at Destroy the Brain.com are offering up the 1973 drive-in hit The Candy Snatchers as part of their monthly Late Night Grindhouse Midnight series at St. Louis’ fabulous Hi-Pointe Theater. The Candy Snatchers is a fairly obscure (and at one time, difficult to find) melding of violent exploitation sleaze and crime noir aesthetic and one tough, bitter little sleeper of a movie that’s about five times as good as you’d expect.
After a craptacular folksy theme song called “Money is the root of all happiness.”, The Candy Snatchers tells of 16-year-old Candy Phillips (Susan Sennett, former Playboy centerfold and wife of rocker Graham Nash) who is brutally abducted by a trio of amateur criminals hoping for a quick ransom exchange. Burying their innocent captive alive in the hills of Southern California with but a small tube for air,...
This weekend the guys at Destroy the Brain.com are offering up the 1973 drive-in hit The Candy Snatchers as part of their monthly Late Night Grindhouse Midnight series at St. Louis’ fabulous Hi-Pointe Theater. The Candy Snatchers is a fairly obscure (and at one time, difficult to find) melding of violent exploitation sleaze and crime noir aesthetic and one tough, bitter little sleeper of a movie that’s about five times as good as you’d expect.
After a craptacular folksy theme song called “Money is the root of all happiness.”, The Candy Snatchers tells of 16-year-old Candy Phillips (Susan Sennett, former Playboy centerfold and wife of rocker Graham Nash) who is brutally abducted by a trio of amateur criminals hoping for a quick ransom exchange. Burying their innocent captive alive in the hills of Southern California with but a small tube for air,...
- 2/26/2013
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
The French gave us the word “demimonde” – literally, half the world. But what it has come to mean in English, or so says Webster, is “a distinct circle or world that is often an isolated part of a larger world.”
Storytellers have always held a fascination with the dark side of human nature; that part of the psyche which is normally restrained and leashed, taught to be obedient, held in check – as Conrad wrote in Heart of Darkness – by the reproving looks of our neighbors. After all, what was Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde but a probing of that other, id-driven half and the entrancing appeal of doing what one wants instead of what one should.
Film is no different than literature, and from its beginning the movies have produced a rich vein of stories about society’s fringe dwellers, those who operate by necessity,...
Storytellers have always held a fascination with the dark side of human nature; that part of the psyche which is normally restrained and leashed, taught to be obedient, held in check – as Conrad wrote in Heart of Darkness – by the reproving looks of our neighbors. After all, what was Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde but a probing of that other, id-driven half and the entrancing appeal of doing what one wants instead of what one should.
Film is no different than literature, and from its beginning the movies have produced a rich vein of stories about society’s fringe dwellers, those who operate by necessity,...
- 5/27/2012
- by Bill Mesce
- SoundOnSight
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