If you’re in the mood to be unnerved, you can’t do much better than Hard Candy, a tense two-hander about a photographer and the teenaged chat-room flirt he invites home with him — and who gives him a whole lot more than he bargained for. Director David Slade’s psychological thriller, opening in the U.S. on April 14, is one of the first movies to credit its digital colorist — Jean-Clement Soret of London’s Moving Picture Company — in the opening titles instead of the end credit scroll, which offers a clue as to just how important Slade thought the film’s DI really was.
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