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.

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

Fundamentally disturbed

| 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.

| 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 ...

| 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.

| Mar 30, 2020

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

| 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...

| 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.

| 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.

| 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.

| 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.

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

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

| 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.

| Original Score: A- | Feb 2, 2018

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

| Dec 20, 2017

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

| Oct 16, 2017

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

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

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

| 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.

| Aug 8, 2017

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

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

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

| Apr 28, 2017