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The last time a British film-maker attempted to invert the man-tortures-woman traditions of the slasher genre, his film was banned from video by the BBFC. Admittedly Ray Brady's Boy Meets Girl was no masterpiece, its scenes of freshly microwaved limbs more risible than radical. But the antagonism which it provoked in the chief censor suggested an antipathy to the subject matter rather than the content. Much has changed since, and today the BBFC doesn't even bat an eyelid at films like British ad-grad David Slade's Hard Candy, a tale of girl bites boy which has been rated 18 for 'strong, sadistic violence'. Yet the reaction of young male American audiences who howled at scenes of visceral emasculation suggests that those old taboos are still alive and kicking. Hard Candy begins in worrisomely leering mode, as 'Thonggrrrl' is groomed by 'Lensman' in an internet chatroom, computer keys clicking with skin-crawling salaciousness. A meeting is arranged, where middle-aged photographer Jeff ensnares year-old Hayley with talk of Goldfrapp bootlegs and lures her back to his swanky LA apartment. The walls drip with advertising images of nubile adolescents, and the conversation is littered with phrases like 'keep teasing me like that, you're gonna drive me crazy'.
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Hard Candy is a American thriller film [3] focusing on a year-old female vigilante's trapping and torture of a man whom she suspects of being a sexual predator. It was the first feature film for Slade, who had primarily directed music videos. It had limited release in two theaters in the US. The film opens with a sexually charged, flirtatious online chat between year-old Hayley Stark and Jeff Kohlver, a year-old photographer.
