becoming friends with...the devil's candy (2015, Our Feature Presentation)

chris is on a cruise, so it’s just the two of us, and you wouldn’t believe how much it was!! we come back from the break with zz top’s “rough boy” (still hilarious, that’s here) and a heartfelt rest in peace to drummer frank beard, whose name i get wrong only once. trailer trash takes on delirium (1979), a vietnam-vets-turned-vigilantes exploitation movie with an absolutely unhinged trailer, so we’ve already filed it away for an exploitation series. framed is all over the place as usual…we go from carlito’s way to s.w.a.t. to a guy ritchie frame that filled us with rage. we do parts of that monologue in sling blade, talk terrence malick’s the tree of life (dinosaurs, volcanoes, brad pitt), martin mcdonagh’s in bruges and seven psychopaths, and i mention my undying love of the incomparable parker posey. then the feature: the devil’s candy, sean byrne’s heavy-metal possession horror film. or sean hayes. sean haynes. david byrne. the blue’s clues guy steve burns. we do eventually get the director’s name right. ethan embry plays a struggling metalhead painter who moves his family into a cheap texas farmhouse, and pruitt taylor vince is the man in the red tracksuit who is the reason the home was so cheap. hilarity ensues. no. horror. horror ensues. and nary a shirt on embry. some highlights: how byrne’s brutal long takes follow up the loved ones without the sophomore slump the blood looking more and more like paint as the film goes on\ the suitcase scene, where the movie shows you nothing and it’s still horrific ray’s flying v drone and why it should have been the whole score (the chug) metal as the private language between a father and daughter the father-daughter thread running through both of byrne’s films the crucifix, the voices, and whether it’s the devil, the house, or neither ethan embry’s wig, his abs, his chest tattoo, and lack of shirt was metallica was the right call, and why this movie has a smell we friends? yes. it’s a great, genuinely upsetting movie that doesn’t need to make a million statements to creep you out. but lose metallica. always solid advice. also watched the trailer for byrne’s shark-killer film dangerous animals, preview our halloween theme (horror about things pretending to be human, and yes, we need your help naming it), and debut a brand-new segment: rapid fire questions for rene. it hits every big life question…didya poop? front or back? is that glint the beach shine coming off yer zipper? it's blinding me. if you like horror, metal, cult movies, or two guys arguing about colin farrell, pull up a chair. but like and subscribe first. don’t make it weird. i will send rene after you. - byron j. #TheDevilsCandy #SeanByrne #EthanEmbry #PruittTaylorVince #MetalHorror #HorrorPodcast #CultFilm #Delirium1979 #Exploitation #ZZTop #FrankBeard #SlingBlade #TerrenceMalick #InBruges #MovieDiscussion #becomingfriendswith #BFW