The Candy Snatchers (1973)

Crime pays in The Candy Snatchers (1973), but its wages are redeemable only in the malls of hell. Criminals have rarely come more brutal or banal than the brain-dead, comatose souls who kidnap sixteen-year-old heiress Candy. The only witness to the crime is a retarded kid who is scarred by what he has seen but powerless to communicate it. Where some movies revel in the struggle between good and evil, The Candy Snatchers slithers along its plot points of dismemberment, sexual violence, murder, and blood betrayal in the exploration of one evil writhing in mortal combat with another equally vile maleficence.