The Candy Snatchers
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The Candy Snatchers is a 1973
exploitation
crime film
. It stars Tiffany Bolling, Susan Sennet, Ben Piazza, Brad David, and Vince Martorano. It was written by Bryan Gindoff and directed by Guerdon Trueblood. The film is rated R.
The film was released on DVD
by Subversive Cinema in 2005, which was its worldwide home video release.
of Crosby, Stills and Nash) is brutally abducted
and buried alive in the hills of Southern California by a trio of amateur criminals hoping for a hasty ransom exchange. When Candy's father (Ben Piazza) doesn't show at their agreed rendezvous, the threesome—sultry blonde Jessie (Playboy model and 70s B-movie
star, Tiffany Bolling
), her sadistic brother Alan (Brad David) and maladjusted Army vet Eddy (Vincent Martorano)—begin to grow anxious. Paranoia sets in; the kidnappers fear their meticulous plan is crumbling and begin a downward spiral into depravity, mutilation and cold-blooded murder—with Candy helplessly trapped in the middle.
1973 in film
The year 1973 in film involved some significant events.-Events:*The Marx Brothers' Zeppo Marx divorces his second wife, Barbara Blakely. Blakely would later marry actor/singer Frank Sinatra....
exploitation
Exploitation film
Exploitation film is a type of film that is promoted by "exploiting" often lurid subject matter. The term "exploitation" is common in film marketing, used for all types of films to mean promotion or advertising. These films then need something to exploit, such as a big star, special effects, sex,...
crime film
Crime film
Crime films are films which focus on the lives of criminals. The stylistic approach to a crime film varies from realistic portrayals of real-life criminal figures, to the far-fetched evil doings of imaginary arch-villains. Criminal acts are almost always glorified in these movies.- Plays and films...
. It stars Tiffany Bolling, Susan Sennet, Ben Piazza, Brad David, and Vince Martorano. It was written by Bryan Gindoff and directed by Guerdon Trueblood. The film is rated R.
The film was released on DVD
DVD
A DVD is an optical disc storage media format, invented and developed by Philips, Sony, Toshiba, and Panasonic in 1995. DVDs offer higher storage capacity than Compact Discs while having the same dimensions....
by Subversive Cinema in 2005, which was its worldwide home video release.
Plot
16-year old Candy Philips (Susan Sennet, wife of singer Graham NashGraham Nash
Graham William Nash, OBE is an English singer-songwriter known for his light tenor vocals and for his songwriting contributions with the British pop group The Hollies, and with the folk-rock band Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. Nash is a photography collector and a published photographer...
of Crosby, Stills and Nash) is brutally abducted
Kidnapping
In criminal law, kidnapping is the taking away or transportation of a person against that person's will, usually to hold the person in false imprisonment, a confinement without legal authority...
and buried alive in the hills of Southern California by a trio of amateur criminals hoping for a hasty ransom exchange. When Candy's father (Ben Piazza) doesn't show at their agreed rendezvous, the threesome—sultry blonde Jessie (Playboy model and 70s B-movie
B-movie
A B movie is a low-budget commercial motion picture that is not definitively an arthouse or pornographic film. In its original usage, during the Golden Age of Hollywood, the term more precisely identified a film intended for distribution as the less-publicized, bottom half of a double feature....
star, Tiffany Bolling
Tiffany Bolling
Tiffany Bolling, born Tiffany Royce Kral, is an American singer and actress most known for her appearances in '70s cult movies and television shows, such as Ironside , Kingdom of the Spiders, The Candy Snatchers, Wicked, Wicked, The Centerfold Girls,...
), her sadistic brother Alan (Brad David) and maladjusted Army vet Eddy (Vincent Martorano)—begin to grow anxious. Paranoia sets in; the kidnappers fear their meticulous plan is crumbling and begin a downward spiral into depravity, mutilation and cold-blooded murder—with Candy helplessly trapped in the middle.