Line #35 Film/TheCandySnatchers


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2	''The Candy Snatchers'' is a 1973 exploitation film written and produced by Bryan Gindoff and directed by Guerdon Trueblood. Teenage heiress Candy Phillips (Susan Sennett) is kidnapped by three small-time criminals - Jessie (Tiffany Bolling), her brother Alan (Brad David), and their friend Eddy (Vince Martorano) - in order to extort diamonds from her wealthy father Avery (Ben Piazza). The only witness is a young boy named Sean Newton (Christopher Trueblood), but he is mute and unable to summon help.
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4	!!''The Candy Snatchers'' contains examples of:
5	* AbusiveParents: Sean's mother openly despises him. Most of her screen time is spent yelling at him, hitting him, complaining about him, or threatening to destroy his toys. At one point she gives him a downer to get him out of her way for eight hours.
6	* AdultsAreUseless: Every adult who isn't evil is this. Sean's parents unknowingly foil all his efforts to rescue Candy, while Candy's mother is a drunk who never questions why she hasn't seen her daughter in days.
7	* AndStarring: Starring Tiffany Bolling, Ben Piazza, and Susan Sennet as Candy, co-starring Brad David, introducing Vincent Martorano as Eddy, featuring Bonnie Boland, Jerry Butts, Leon Charles, Dolores Dorn, Phyllis Major, Bill Woodard.
8	* BinocularShot: Done while the kidnappers are watching the ransom drop. They bring books on birdwatching to avoid suspicion.
9	* BlindfoldedTrip: Candy spends most of the movie blindfolded. When she tries to remove her blindfold, Alan says, "Listen, chickie, this little blindfold here is the only thing that's keeping you alive. So you figure out whether you want it on or off."
10	* BoundAndGagged: Happens to Candy less than three minutes into the movie, and while her gag is sometimes removed, she's never untied.
11	* BuriedAlive: The kidnappers store Candy in a hole in the ground with a breathing pipe.
12	* CatScare: When Sean accidentally knocks loose a plank from the kidnappers' attic, the kidnappers scramble for the attic to catch him. Then they see a cat and decide there was no intruder.
13	* DiesWideOpen: [[spoiler:Candy's mother, after Alan stabs her.]]
14	* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:Everything gets out of control due to Candy's stepfather - Avery - refusing to pay the ransom, leading to her mother to attempt to rescue her herself. However, she fails, is raped and later killed by Alan, leaving a BoundAndGagged Candy with no hope of being rescued from the hole she's trapped.]]
15	* FingerInTheMail: The kidnappers want to cut off Candy's ear and send it to Avery. Eddy talks them out of it, so instead they force her to scream so they can record it, then purchase an ear from a worker at the local hospital.
16	* {{Fingore}}: When Avery reaches for the gun in his drawer, Alan repeatedly kicks it shut on his hand.
17	* FromCamouflageToCriminal: Eddy used to be in the military.
18	* GoldDigger: Avery admits that he married Candy's mother solely for her fortune.
19	* InheritanceMurder: An indirect example. [[spoiler:Avery is happy to let Candy get murdered because then he'll inherit her mother's fortune.]]
20	* JanitorImpersonationInfiltration: Eddy disguises himself as a telephone repairman while he goes to deliver the ear to Avery.
21	* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler: Mrs. Newton is implied to die by being shot from the same son that she abused]].
22	* KickThemWhileTheyAreDown: At one point Jessie viciously kicks Candy while she's tied up and helpless on the floor.
23	* TheMistress: Avery plans to run off to Rio with his mistress.
24	* ModestyBedsheet: Used when Avery has sex with his mistress.
25	* MusicVideoSyndrome: "Money Is the Root of All Happiness" plays during the opening scene of Candy's kidnapping.
26	* MustNotDieAVirgin: An extremely dark example. [[spoiler:When Alan is told to kill Candy, he rapes her first so she won't die a virgin.]]
27	* NotNowKiddo: Sean tries to lead his parents to Candy's hole, but they're too busy preparing for a fancy dinner.
28	* OutWithABang: [[spoiler:Alan stabs Candy's mother to death after he has sex with her.]]
29	* PaperThinDisguise: The kidnappers wear fake glasses and noses during the opening scene.
30	* SawItInAMovieOnce:
31	-->'''Eddy''': I gotta hand it to you, Jessie. I could never have thought of this.\
32	'''Jessie''': Me neither. It was on television.
33	* SayMyName: Sean's mother summons him by ringing a cowbell and screaming, "SEAN! SEAN NEW-TON!"
34	* SoundOnlyDeath: [[spoiler: A heavily implied case at the very end of the movie. Sean is being called back to the house by his mother, so he slides down the hill with the gun that he just got, leaving Candy behind. When he's out of sight and the camera pans down to where Candy is buried, the sound of a gunshot is heard, with the cowbell that Sean's mother was ringing stopping abruptly]].
35	* TheSpeechless: Not only does Sean not talk, he doesn't make any vocal noises at all. The closest he comes to speaking is mouthing "pew" when Candy asks him if he knows what killing is.
36	* StealingFromTheTill: Avery is very wealthy from constantly embezzling money from the jewelry store he manages.
37	* TapOnTheHead: Jessie knocks out a telephone worker by hitting him repeatedly with a plank.
38	* VehicularKidnapping: The kidnappers drag Candy into a white and blue van with curtained windows.
39	* WickedStepfather: [[spoiler:Avery isn't Candy's biological father.]]

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