The Devil's Candy

What if The Amityville Horror also had a plot about a child killer stalking the family that moved into the house? That’s The Devil’s Candy. It’s a movie too short for its overstuffed basket of ideas, and bereft of anything original or unique or different. The supernatural element is never explained or made sense of, and it doesn’t fit with the child killer storyline. The performances are fine, the movie is shot and directed well, and the metal soundtrack is kind of cool (the moment where the painter dad is possessed to paint an upside down crucifix and it’s set to “By Demons By Driven” by Pantera is an inspired choice). But it feels anything more than the sum of its parts, and those parts are just average at best anyway. Not bad, not good, not much of anything to speak of.