Hard Candy

Personally, I'd rather have this movie obliterated from my memory.

Packaged in an increasingly lurid, credibility-free storyline, delivered with unstinting insensitivity by a first-time director determined to show off his ad-man's box of visual tics.

It's well worth seeing, because it is well made -- apart from a few gaps in logic -- and well acted.

... a film that gives you something to think about, raising questions that linger long after the theater lights have brightened.

Hard Candy is an exploitation film, with very little happening but a guy getting tortured for about 75 minutes of screen time.

... icky, incoherent thriller ...

An exploitation of a set of themes rather than a thoughtful consideration of them, and celebrates their austere nature in a stampede of scenes that cause only surface discomfort.

One of the more original and grueling films to come out in years and I loved it...

Slick slime wrapped as a high-toned, girl-power shocker

Wilson and Page are compelling and Slade demonstrates a slick stylistic flair, but the over over-the-top shock pandering renders the dark lesson convoluted and hard to swallow.

British director David Slade announces himself as a master of economy and discrimination by leaving the horror to the audience's imagination. This movie will make you squirm like you've never squirmed before.

Slade and his actors keep the tension high, and the questions don't come to mind until after the credits roll.