Hard Candy

Hard Candy

Strangers shouldn't talk to little girls.
Overview:

Hayley's a smart, charming teenage girl. Jeff's a handsome, smooth fashion photographer. An Internet chat, a coffee shop meet-up, an impromptu fashion shoot back at Jeff's place. Jeff thinks it's his lucky night. He's in for a surprise.

Released: 2005-01-14
Duration: 01:43:00
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Director: David Slade
Writer: Brian Nelson
Genre: Drama Thriller
Keywords: Strong Female Manipulation Strong Female Lead Online Dating Revenge Torture Teenage Girl Strong Female Character Asian Woman Missing Person Poster Reference To Roman Polanski Violence Tied To A Chair Sexual Torture Strong Female Protagonist Sexual Predator Pedophilia Female Psychopath Female Antagonist Female Villain Violent Woman Attempted Suffocation With Plastic Bag Online Predator Pedo Baiting Rape And Revenge Turning The Tables Photographer Chatting Age Difference Coffee Shop Minor 14 Year Old Online Pedophile Fashion Photographer Tied Up Internet Home Invasion Suburb Reference To Coldplay Rope Reference To John Mayer Psycho Desperation Schoolgirl Cafe Cd Player Jailbait Tease Brutality Medical Operation Combination Panic Fear Floor Safe Headphones Glasses Kiddie Porn Penis Struggle Injury Handgun Wound Gunshot Captive Pistol Search Voyeurism Pornography Hostage Chat Room Deviant Predator Bound And Gagged Passed Out Lust Dancing Stalker Predator Turns Victim Role Reversal Hunter Becomes Hunted Lolita Messenger Instant Messaging Social Networking Social Network Pseudointellectual Female Vigilante Vigilante Modeling Agency Chocolate Cake Justice Entrapment Kissing Someone's Feet Con Game Los Angeles, California Stabbing Photograph Letter Calling For Help Depantsing Molestation Ransacking Hatred Reference To Monty Python Model Photo Studio Swivel Chair Begging Video Camera Cartoon On Tv Rubber Gloves Deception Drinking Drink Bedroom Camera Wiping Off Fingerprints Suffocation Saran Wrap Duct Tape Testicles Shaving Storytelling Suture Scalpel Scissors Razor Eyeglasses Neighbor Drugged Teasing Passing Out Suicide Sociopath Tears Crying Tied To A Table Flirting Videocam Internet Dating Computer Dating Reference To Jodie Foster Liar Thirty Something Texting Screwdriver The Drink Cell Phone Vengeance Threat Scream Screaming Sadist Sadism Rooftop Revelation Red Riding Hood Psychotic Psychological Torture Photograph Mistreatment Missing Girl Menace Living Room Knife Ice Gun Forced Suicide Death Danger Cruelty Confession Computer Computer Screen Blood Abuse Verbal Abuse Mental Abuse Taser Psychopath Photography Hanging Chatroom Stalking Noose Murder Garbage Disposal Drugged Drink Combination Safe Combination Lock Castration Perversion Pervert Predator Becomes Prey Dating Older Man Younger Woman Relationship Ice Cube Psychological Thriller Forced Confession Ruse Comeuppance Online Chat Child Murderer Red Cape Punishment Little Red Riding Hood Costume Reference To Little Red Riding Hood Incriminating Evidence Woman Tortures A Man Pedo Age Disparate Romance Trolling Moral Dilemma Anxiety Claustrophobia Psychological Horror Heterosexual Female Protagonist Teenage Girl As Protagonist Teenage Protagonist Murder Play Stage Thriller Duo Reference To Jean Seberg Vcr Video Cassette Compact Disc Book Gardening Sweating 14 Year Old Girl Washroom Mp3 Rose Nature Science Fair T Shirt Health Food Stove Burner Human Rights Watch Amnesty International Lubricant Medicine Cabinet Vodka Smiley Face Earphones Slow Motion Scene Reference To Shakespeare's Romeo And Juliet Reading A Letter Shop Teacher Honor Student Student Teacher Cd Band Stove Prune Head Wound Parking Garage Male Female Relationship Elevator Therapist Concert Reference To Porky Pig Voyeur Food Poisoning Poisoning Girl Scout Cookies Girl Scouts Cookie Sawed Off Thumb Time Lapse Photography Money Fight Telephone Call Memory Bleach Lie Underwear Sports Bra One Day Timespan Electrocution Electricity Electric Torture Electric Shock Bathtub Women's Bathroom Paper Clip Kicked In The Face Shower Independent Film Surprise Ending Evil Woman F Rated Delusion Cult Film Electronic Hunter Prey Captor Becomes Captive
Description

14-year-old Hayley Stark and 32-year-old photographer Jeff Kohlver engage in a sexually charged, flirtatious online chat. Jeff and Hayley meet at a coffeehouse, and he takes her back to his house. Hayley makes them both screwdrivers and asks him to take photographs. Before he can, Jeff loses consciousness.

When Jeff wakes, he is bound to a chair. Hayley explains she has been tracking him and drugged him because she knows he is a pedophile, rapist, and murderer. Jeff denies these allegations, claiming he had innocent intentions. Hayley searches Jeff's house and finds his gun and safe. In the safe, Hayley finds pictures, including a photo of Donna Mauer, a local girl who has been kidnapped and remains missing. Jeff denies involvement in Mauer's disappearance and reaches for his gun. When he attacks Hayley, she asphyxiates him with plastic wrap.

When Jeff wakes, he finds himself bound to a steel table with a bag of ice on his genitals. Hayley explains she will castrate Jeff. Jeff threatens, bribes and sweet-talks Hayley to dissuade her; when that doesn't work, he tries to get her sympathy by telling her he was abused as a child. Following the supposed operation, which Jeff does not feel due to the ice numbing his genitals, Hayley leaves the kitchen, saying she will take a shower.

Jeff frees himself and realizes he is unharmed. He storms off in a rage to get Hayley in the bathroom, where the shower is running. Scalpel in hand, he attacks, but finds the shower empty. Hayley attacks him from behind, and as they struggle, Hayley incapacitates him with a stun gun.

Hayley poses as a police officer and asks Jeff's ex-girlfriend, Janelle, to come immediately to Jeff's house. Jeff regains consciousness to find that Hayley has bound his wrists and hoisted him to stand on a chair in his kitchen with a noose around his neck. Hayley makes Jeff an offer: if he commits suicide, she promises to erase the evidence of his crimes, but if he refuses, she promises to expose his secrets. The conversation is interrupted when a neighbor knocks on the front door, selling girl scout cookies. When Hayley returns, Jeff breaks from his bindings and pursues her to the roof of his house, where she has lured him. Hayley has brought her rope from the kitchen and fashioned it into a noose secured to the chimney. Hayley keeps Jeff at bay with his gun.

Jeff confesses that he watched while another man raped and murdered Mauer. Jeff promises Hayley that, if she spares his life, he will tell her the other man's name so she can exact her revenge. Hayley reveals that she already knows his name, Aaron, and that Aaron said Jeff did it before he killed himself. Janelle arrives, and Hayley once again urges Jeff to hang himself, promising that she will destroy the evidence. Defeated, Jeff lets Hayley slide the noose around his neck, and takes the last fatal step off the roof; after he falls Hayley says, "Or not". Hayley gathers her belongings and escapes through the woods.

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