Candy Land, Truck Stop Carnage

Not the feel good movie of the 21st century...nope.  You'll figure out early on that this one won't end well...hehehe, you have no idea. Prurient, bloody, and filled with disturbing imagery...many of you will regret having put this one on.  Still, this is a horror story that is horrific.  Depravity and delusion will rule. No one in this film is beyond getting slashed and gutted.  Today we look at 2022's "Candy Land," directed by John Swab.

Lot lizards!  The "ladies" who work truck stops servicing exhausted truckers.  Call them prostitutes if you must.  Sadie (Sam Quartin) seems to be the one with the most standing. As our film opens, she is servicing an eager trucker in his cab.  Her buddies include the male-whore Levi (Owen Campbell) and the playful Riley (Eden Brolin).  They are all deviant and also "service" one another. Uh oh...a troop of gospel preachers show up.  They appear to be a family. A fire and brimstone preacher, Theo (Brad Carter), gives them gospel tracts and begs them to repent.  The lizards laugh at him. Theo's daughter, Remy (Olivia Luccardi) doesn't laugh...she seems intrigued by these sexual sinners. That night, Remy appears to have run away from her family (cult?) and has showed up at the lizards' hotel.  The gals take her in and she is hired.

Now Remy is schooled in prostitution and given clients.  The gals like her.  The corpses begin piling up at this point.  See, Remy has brought with her a big cross with a big knife secreted inside.  Remy sees herself as the savior of these girls and the evil truckers who hire the gals.  She saves them through gutting them and slicing their throats. One by one, truckers are cut up.  The lot lizards have no clue...then one by one, they begin dying horribly. Remy's brand of salvation is quick and bloody.  The body count explodes upwards through the second half of this film.  Now, having tasted blood, and made so many new friends, Remy ramps up her efforts to "purify" all of them.

Will any of the lot lizards figure out what exactly Remy is before all of them die?  What is Remy's end game?  Will we see anymore of Theo and his cult before the end credits?  What an ending.  Just when you thought it could not get bloodier...well, you'll see. Not for the squeamish, and not for anyone wanting some wit, humor, and stress relief in their horror films.  Brutal and ominous, see "Candy Land" if you dare...but you were warned.