Candy Land (2022)
4/10
Cleanse Me
1 February 2023
Warning: Spoilers
The production takes the first thirty minutes to introduce the characters and to set up the plot that takes place in 1996. They explain how they stay drug free and clean. The girls wait for the flashing headlights to be called over to the vehicle. Nora (Guinevere Turner) is the madam over the three girls plus Levi (Owen Campbell). Sheriff Rex (William Baldwin) knows what is going on and likes Levi over the three women. The nickname for their stop is "Candy Land." The film concentrates mostly on Sadie (Sam Quartin). They all live at the Lazy J Motel. They adopt Remy (Olivia Luccardi) who is a virgin an outcast of a religious cult. She too must pay her way if she is going to stay. A man turns up dead. By the second murder we know it is Remy having her own idea how to cleanse people.

The film was not as funny as "Truck Stop Women" and not as bloody as "Chainsaw Hookers." I think it would have been better to have someone either fragile like Taylor Swift for Remy or someone comical like a Divine figure. Watchable mix of genres.

Guide: F-word. Sex. Nudity (Sam Quartin, Eden Brolin)
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