You Drugged Lenny.

When I saw the art work and description for this movie last year, I knew I had to watch it.  I waited to this year to watch it and was very excited to do so.  I hate writing things like this because I know nobody sets out to make a terrible movie but that is the case with Bad Candy.

The description says the movie is a montage of short stories similar to Creepshow and Trick r' Treat but let me tell you that is where the similarities stop.  It starts out very promising, with friends getting ready to trick or treat, gorgeous cinematography and production design for this first scene.  Then it leads into a devil clown lighting up some kid's head and turning him into a figure.  This is where the movie first lost me because the tone of it changed out of nowhere here, then that led to one of the friends having the power to draw things that come to life. I literally said, "whaaat?" After this we see necrophilia, a big bat creature (see above) a pimp getting killed and some disgruntled military guys followed by a very long and boring story about ghost hunting that ties the radio narrators into a story of their own.  Oh, and the devil clown appears in some of the stories but not others.

As far as the positive aspects of the film I will say that the cinematography is excellent in the first segment and then decent for the remainder of the film.  There is a story with a drug dealer in a bathroom that had great potential and was creepy.  The movie references various horror things like old horror hosts, the name of the radio host narrating the film is Chilly Billy, the same as the PA horrror host.  There is also a scene witha  great picture of Zacherley on a door that only horror nerds noticed.  The radio host's producer is Zach Galligan of Gremlins fame and they make a joke about him eating after midnight/  The makeup on the giant vat thing was pretty good.

Overall, the film is a low budget sort of tribute to horror's past.  The low budget aspect I got over quick and wasn't even an issue, for me it was the way the stories seemed to be all set in different realities with different rules applying to each story.  There's a MAGA rapist who gets decapitated by the devil clown after chasing a woman and then in another story a girl draws a fairy that comes to life and is squished by a man.  The last story is a long ghost hunting thing that somehow we find out involved the radio producer who then runs into the devil clown who turns out to be real after all?  This was a mess, I would not recommend and that makes me sad.