Hard Candy, directed by David Slade follows A 32-year-old photographer, Jeff, who welcomes 14-year-old Hayley, with whom he has been seductively chatting online, into his house. However, she believes that he’s a paedophile and intends to punish him. Online safety was something the media frequently discussed in the early noughties, so it was only a matter of time before a movie was made that dived into the subject. It’s not an easy subject matter to take on, so had director Slade managed to create a horror movie that managed to entertain, shock and provoke thought among audiences when it was released? Let’s find out here on WTF happened to Hard Candy.
Written by: Adam Walton
Edited by: Jamie Vasquez
Narrated by: Adam Walton
Produced by: John Fallon and Andrew Hatfield
Executive produced by: Berge Garabedian
SERIES SYNOPSIS: Hollywood has had its fair share of historically troubled productions. Whether it was casting changes, actor deaths, fired directors, in-production rewrites, constant delays, budget cuts or studio edits, these films had every intention to be a blockbuster but were beset with unforeseen disasters. Sometimes huge hits, sometimes box office bombs. Either way, we have to ask: What Happened To This Horror Movie?
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Such a disappointing movie👎 very anticlimactic
Great movie
WTF Happened to Ellen Page?
WTF Happened to Ellen Page would be a better video
I'm just glad I didn't watch this movie prior to Conjuring and Umbrella Academy 😅
If they waited a little longer this would have been a gay rape movie.
First time watching, it was a suprise. A welcome one.
A good revenge movie.
Great movie. Very painful to watch for boys 😂
If you live in America, how does it feel to have Donald Trump win another election?
I love this movie. I love movies where the table is turned, where the apparent victim becomes the predator.
Somewhat good film with only one tiny bit of action. In the end it was unsatisfying.
I honestly think that it raises serious questions about online safety for children
Song name??
Wtf happened to Ellen Page.
With my penis & some LSD that would have never happened to her.
I'm so sorry for this lost soul.
WTF Happened to Hard Candy. Well start w the fact she’s a boy now…
"And i hate Goldfrapp"
SHE did a good job in this movie
I still think this is Elliot Page's best film. Just amazing, one of the best blind watched I've ever experienced.
I think it was a well made and effective film that deserves plenty of credit for tacking that subject matter with an inventive twist. That being said, it's a bit crazy, confusing and sad watching people dance around playing the name game in regards to the female lead of that film. It's an indisputable fact the person starting in that film was a girl by the name of Ellen Page. If you doubt it, look at the credits in the film itself. The "male" adult known as Elliot Page DID NOT EXIST at the time this film was made any more than the 9 year old CHARACTER in The Phantom Menace, was known and addressed as Darth Vader by other characters in the film (regardless of what the viewers knew about the future).
If that person did exist, it becomes a completely different film with completely different overtones. The credits (or reality) of the film did not magically change, just to appease a small, quasi-religious political cult, over-run with a bunch of vulnerable narcissists who live to "correct" others, because of their unresolved childhood trauma. In other words, a normal person's reality doesn't change just to appease the feelings of crazy people. It's one thing to acknowledge the change of the lead, and cut down potential confusion. It's something else entirely to try and impose your kooky views on someone and retroactively change the reality of the person staring in this film, or the name used in reviews, written by other people, at the time the film was released… which is at best confusing and at worst an authoritarian nightmare.
The other crazy part is trying to engage in these mental gymnastics, while simultaneously ignoring the giant elephant in the room and leaving out the fact that a huge reason that change was made was because a young girl was repeatedly abused by a bunch of Hollywood lefty adults, INCLUDING during the production of this movie. How this goes completely unaddressed is beyond me.
I get that the cult members get triggered and lash out when their world view is shattered (a defining trait of narcissism), but well adjusted people need to refuse to bend the knee to this crap, or we are all living in Orwell's 1984. Most of us don't like or respect them and nobody cares about their feelings but them. Thankfully it looks like the tide is turning with this ridiculous fad, and normal, middle-of-the-road types are finally fed up and rejecting it. Hopefully soon it will be a bad memory, mentioned in the same breath as insanity like witch trials, and we can get back to the adults running the show instead of emotionally damaged adolescents running an asylum.
(If you don't like this opinion, I don't care. You can't change our minds and silence us. Just go back to getting weird piercings, dying your hair blue and wasting your savings on one more overpriced tattoo, like the uniform makes you unique or special. Just remember we are not reason your dad didn't love you, so get off your webcam and on to a therapist's couch and the next time you point a finger, make sure to direct it in the mirror).
(If you do like it, Talk Hard, keep fighting fighting the good fight and godspeed to you, my friend.)