Sean Byrne’s follow up to The Loved Ones plays with the formalism of classic horror whole offering a 21st century spin on the haunted house genreIt’s a tale as ancient as horror itself – young family move into house with seriously bad feng shui,terrible things happen – but in The satan’s Candy, Australian writer/director Sean Byrne’s follow up to his breakout 2009 debut The Loved Ones, and the tropes are infused with something fresh: heavy metal. Well,heavy metal and thrash and death and doom. The satan’s Candy is as much a appreciate letter to the various branches of the metal family tree as it is an exercise in tightly wound classic horror, which must get Byrne the biggest metalhead of them all.
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Source: theguardian.com