Bad Candy

Um, yeah, I don't know.

A lot of gore, a lot of just strange stuff, you know? Uh, uh, it connects to Bad Candy.

It's in the same world.

So, um, we actually teased the Devour in Bad Candy.

On, on one of the bathroom kills you see a flyer for the Virginia Bitches, the girls in the movie, in Bad Candy five years prior.

So-

Oh, that's really cool

We, uh, we had 20,000 square foot.

So VHS Halloween 2025, add that into your underrated Halloween watching.

Next up is another one from the 2020s, and 2020 exactly is Bad Candy, directed by Scott Hansen and Desiree Connell.

On Halloween night in New Salem, radio DJs Chili Billy and Paul tell twisted anthology of terrifying local myths.

Residents of the small town experience horrifying paranormal encounters that lead them to a grim end.

It's got really good effects to it.

And like I said, the ending reveal makes it worth watching alone.

Bad Candy from 2020, currently available on Tubi, Fandango, and Plex to stream for free, so make sure you check that one out.

It is one that really snuck by because it came out in 2020, so we were at the height of COVID at that point, and it's one that I've never really heard anybody else talk about.

great.

There's one called Bad Candy.

Two local radio DJs, including Slipknot's Corey Taylor.

Yeah, he plays a radio DJ, Corey does.

It's one of those movies that's going to find a cult.

Even Bad Candy is not a great movie, but people love it because of the Halloween aesthetic and everything to it.

The Heretics is going to be one of those movies that people are going to suggest every Halloween.

It's going to be a hit.

Director Scott Hansen sent us a screener so we could check it out and give you guys a spoiler-free first take and hype it up if we liked it, which we both did, didn't we?

I'm just gonna be honest, I went in just not with no expectations and thinking I was gonna see a typical indie film and I was so excited for this movie.

And I loved it more than I thought I was going to.

So I enjoyed it a lot more than I thought I was going to.

This thing is right in my wheelhouse with all the practical effects and the creatures and everything else that we will get into.

But I did have some expectations because I've been friends with Scott on social media for a while.

I've been following the production of the film for a while.

I've seen some clips and stills and some of the reviews, earlier reviews and social media people who've seen it talking about it.

You know, it's, it's a hell of a run, but anyway, dark shadows, not great.

Um, And then I did watch a random Halloween movie called Bad Candy on Tubi last night.

Not going to be a mind blower.

It's not going to change your life.

Get to those first.

Not if you have time.

If you have time, check out Bad Candy.

But no, Tubi has a whole list of these random Halloween movies that were You know, probably made in about five minutes.