“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
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