John Swab’s new horror film Candy Land treads a very fine line between exploitation for exploitation’s sake and exploitation that tells a touching story that’ll rip out your heart. It’s an impressive feat, to be sure. A film about truck stop sex workers and murder doesn’t sound like something that would break your heart. And yet, Candy Land achieves that and more. To talk about that balance, we spoke with the team behind the film.
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Candy Land follows Remy (Olivia Luccardi, It Follows), a seemingly naive and devout young woman, who finds herself cast out from her religious cult. With no place to turn, she immerses herself into the underground world of truck stop sex workers a.k.a. “lot lizards,” courtesy of her hosts, Sadie (Sam Quartin, Body Brokers), Riley (Eden Brolin, “Yellowstone”), Liv (Virginia Rand) and Levi (Owen Campbell, X). Under the watchful eye of their matriarch, Nora (Guinevere Turner, American Psycho), and enigmatic local lawman, Sheriff Rex (William Baldwin, The Squid and the Whale), Remy navigates between her strained belief system and the lot lizard code to find her true calling in life.
Dread Central spoke with Swab, Luccardi, and executive producer Jeremy Rosen about their new film, intimacy, Christmas horror, and more.
Watch the full interview below:
Candy Land is available now on digital and VOD.
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