Candy Corn

"This year there's a new Halloween tradition"

Director: Josh Hasty Year: 2019 Runtime: 85 min IMDb: ⭐ 4.3
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Synopsis

On Halloween eve in 1980, local outcast, Julien Cummings, is carelessly murdered. A vagabond witch doctor, Dr. Death, takes matters into his own hands and brings Julien back from the dead to creatively seek brutal revenge on his killers.

On Halloween weekend, a group of bullies are planning their annual hazing on local outcast Jacob Atkins. When they take things too far, he is resurrected to seek revenge against those who wronged him.

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Content Warnings

⭐ IMDb Parents Guide 🛡️ Common Sense Media

there are bugs
spoiler Flies around a rotting corpse
a woman is brutalized for spectacle
Yes
the abused becomes the abuser
spoiler A murdered man brutally avenges his own death. A man who has suffered unspecified abuse by the world in general becomes a necromancer to punish abusers.
someone is stalked
Yes
someone is beaten up by a bully
spoiler A group of bullies beat a man to death near the beginning of the movie. They state that attacking him is a yearly tradition.
someone is restrained
Yes
there's eye mutilation
Yes
there's excessive gore
Yes
there's torture
Yes
there's body horror
Yes
teeth are damaged
spoiler The killer pulls out someone's teeth toward the end of the movie. They show him eating them at the beginning of the credits.
there's cannibalism
spoiler A character appears on screen eating teeth, there is no consumption of human flesh though.
there's amputation
spoiler A character gets both arms torn off near the end of the movie. There is no surgical amputation.
someone dislocates something
spoiler A character gets both arms torn off
Someone becomes unconscious
Yes
someone breaks a bone
spoiler Someone gets their spine ripped out
a kid dies
spoiler A main character's adult son dies, but no children die.
a major character dies
spoiler Most major characters die
someone dies
Yes
the r-slur is used
Yes
a parent dies
Yes
a family member dies
Yes
someone is kidnapped
Yes
there are clowns
spoiler A carnival worker briefly appears wearing clown makeup
there's ghosts
spoiler A character comes back from the dead but it's more of a zombie situation.
There's audio gore
Yes
Autism specific abuse
spoiler Jacob is not stated to be autistic but he’s beat up and killed for being “weird.”
autism is misrepresented
Yes
there's misophonia
Yes
shaky cam is used
Yes
there are sudden loud noises
Yes
there is obscene language/gestures
Yes
there's screaming
Yes
someone is watched without knowing
Yes
there are homophobic slurs
spoiler A character uses the f-slur in the opening scene
there's ableist language or behavior
spoiler A character refers to another by the r-slur and makes multiple comments on his perceived intelligence level. It isn't clear if the character is actually disabled or neurodivergent.
someone speaks hate speech
Yes
the black guy dies first
spoiler There are two Black characters. One is the second to last to die and the other survives the movie.
there is sexual content
spoiler They show a man's fantasy as he masturbates. A couple makes out a bit and they partially undress but never actually have sex.
there are nude scenes
Yes
someone is sexually objectified
Yes
someone is homeless
spoiler There are itinerant carnival workers, but they aren't homeless in the sense this implies.
the ending is sad
Yes
there's blood/gore
Yes

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