Candy Stripers (2006) poster
2006 · horror · sports

Candy Stripers

Directed by Kate Robbins1h 29m2006
ElsewhereIMDb3.31k
  • heavy
  • kinetic
  • intense
  • inventive
  • bleak
  • cold
Movie DNA

Heavy, breathless, extreme horror / sports, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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After a car crash, Tammy and injured basketball players are hospitalized. When a nurse kisses dying Tammy, an alien infection spreads through the hospital staff and patients. The facility is quarantined as infected people seek sugar.

Our read · Candy Stripers (2006) reads as a heavy, breathless, inventive horror · sports entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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You want silly gory B-horror with infected sexy nurses craving sugar.

ends unsettlingyou’ll be fine aftergrabs you earlygrips by minute 12attention 2/5breezes by
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upgraphic violencegoreexplicit sexdrug use

Skip it tonightSkip if cheap effects or unserious horror will disappoint you.

DNA · twelve axes

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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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