If haunted house movies are your things or you enjoy horror films where the perfect family can be dismantled by demonic forces, The Devil’s Candy will definitely be for you.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | May 12, 2023

Fundamentally disturbed

Full Review | Jan 10, 2022

It really grabbed me and pulled me in... this has to be the most disturbing, amazing film I've watched this year.

Full Review | Original Score: 8/10 | Apr 26, 2021

The film is great and done with a boatload of talent, bringing the scares in a creeping in way that builds things up at a steady pace and makes the film stand out in terms of delivering on its promises ...

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 17, 2020

The Devil's Candy features a tight script, solid performances, and a riveting premise that proves Byrne dodged the sophomore jinx.

Full Review | Mar 30, 2020

[The Devil's Candy] manages to be moving, involving, terrifying, funny, sad and instantly memorable - often all at once.

Full Review | Original Score: 10/10 | Oct 7, 2019

The Devil's Candy carefully burns one end of the candle, creating a hellish canvas which has been tarnished by the brush of evil. The descent into child sacrifice is a soulless and disturbing affair, one that can only find saviour in...

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Sep 14, 2019

Director Sean Byrne brings the supernatural straight into collision with utterly human, family drama with an innovative twist.

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5 | May 6, 2019

The question lingers whether Byrne will send his characters to purgatory, he leaves no such doubt about the film being fun as hell.

Full Review | Nov 13, 2018

The Devil's Candy is fitting proof that director Sean Byrne is no one-trick pony and can deftly change genres with skill and verve.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Nov 2, 2018

The Devil's Candy is a haunting film that perfectly melds disturbing events, satanic forces, dark imagery, and metal.

Full Review | Original Score: 9/10 | Nov 2, 2018

...a singular serving of satanic sweetness that left me craving more...

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 17, 2018

[Pruitt Taylor Vince] knocks it out of the park in this movie. Just about every time he walked on frame he just gave me chills. He's such an unsettling presence in this film.

Full Review | Original Score: A- | Feb 2, 2018

It's one of the scariest movies you can stream.

Full Review | Dec 20, 2017

Sadly, the film whiffs the baroque climactic good-versus-evil confrontation and trots out too many clichs getting there.

Full Review | Oct 16, 2017

"The Devil's Candy" is smart genre filmmaking, a taut juggling of the menacing and the character-centric.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 20, 2017

...a short, sharp shock of terror...

Full Review | Sep 18, 2017

Horror fans in search of a smarter-than-average thriller that will make their hearts race and their viscera quiver should not miss this one.

Full Review | Aug 8, 2017

There is something eerily special and surprisingly heartfelt about Sean Byrne's The Devil's Candy.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | May 17, 2017

Byrne directs scenes of terror with a visual aestheticism unmatched by most of his contemporaries.

Full Review | Apr 28, 2017