Ben Piazza,
Bonnie Boland,
Brad David,
Dolores Dorn,
Jerry Butts
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Susan Sennett -- a former Playboy centerfold and wife of singer-songwriter Graham Nash -- plays the lead role of Candy in this campy cult classic, directed by Guerdon Trueblood. With their eyes on a h...( read more
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DVD Release Date: September 27, 2005
Stats: 63 reviews
One of the few genuine exploitation classics of the 1970s, The Candy Snatchers is a film that succeeds where numerous others have failed - in that it effectively combines the sleazy realism of a low budget production with a solid script to produce a chilling piece of cinema. The ...( read more)
Fairly benign exploitation fare with a hilarious, bizarre performance by the young boy in the film.
Excellent, sordid, exploitation crime shocker. Made in the same vein as teh far inferior Last House on the Left, this rises above the genre to be a well acted, nicely paced nihilistic film with a great story involving kidnapping and double-crosses.
The opening song claims again ...( read more)
A very strange movie from the seventies about a girl named Candy who is kidnapped by three petty crooks. See how clever the title is now? The weirdest character is the mute little kid. He saw Candy buried and tries to tell people but since he is mute and creepy no one pays much a...( read more)
An innocent Catholic schoolgirl named Candy (played by Susan Sennett of BIG BAD MAMA fame), daughter of a jewelry store manager, is kidnapped by a trio of small time criminals who plan on handing her back over to her family in exchange for diamonds from the father's store. In the...( read more)
A very odd mix of sleaze and camp. It was not what i expected when i first saw this film. I expected more of a straight sleaze film. But the camp adds another dimension to the film making it satand out from other exploitation film of the time. Well made and sick at times.
very cool exploitation flcik. loved the scene where they try to buy a ear at the morgue
What are they doing to Candy? A masterpiece of exploitation films. Whatever The Devil Rejects should have been.
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