Hard Candy

This is the kind of movie I was trying for with Locker. Unfortunately I'm not as talented a writer as the writers of Hard Candy.

The story is very simple. A fourteen year old girl is propositioned by a pedophile photographer online, they meet at Nighthawks coffee shop. Yeah Nighthawks, from the very famous Hopper painting. You'll know what I'm talking about if you see the painting.

Anyway, they meet and she practically throws herself at him and they go back to his place where the movie starts. This one house location shoot was simply amazing. It is 98% dialogue and clocks in at just over 100 minutes. The pace never drags. It actually goes so fast you wonder where the time went! The drama is tense and I'd have a tough time defining this movie in any genre.

It isn't a horror movie, it isn't a thriller, it isn't drama, it isn't suspense, but at the same time it is all of those rolled up into one intense package. Hitchcock would be proud of this movie. Somehow it cost nearly 1 million dollars to budget this movie but it must have gone to film stock because there are only a handful of actors in it. I believe that the real budget is about a 100 grand. There is just no way that it could have cost 1 million bucks to shoot.

Hard Candy is a great movie. It is a film school in a DVD box for a Indie film. If I had half that story in my imagination it would launch a very solid film career!!!!

See it, you'll enjoy it but you'll wince as many times as you'll marvel at the brilliance of it.