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By Thomas Puhr
Sean Byrne upends the clichéd association between
heavy metal music and Satanism in The
Devil’s Candy (2015). Though shaggy-haired and covered with tattoos (a
characteristic of many a villain/henchman), metalhead/artist Jesse (Ethan
Embry) emerges as a sympathetic hero who resists the devilish presence
threatening his family’s new, countryside home. Byrne largely favors suspense over gore (a sequence in which Jesse’s daughter struggles to escape a killer’s bathroom is particularly nail-biting) and incorporates some vivid imagery, such
as an arresting montage of Jesse’s frenzied painting with a killer’s frenzied
cleaning of a murder scene. Who says heavy metal can’t be subtle?
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