" The Shining," in case you've been under a hedge maze, is based on Stephen King's novel of the same name. Some people just aren't cut out to be writers.īut "The Shining" is the film that takes on significance in "Candy," mentioned multiple times by officers investigating the scene (shout out to two certain husbands I'd love to see in a buddy cop flick) as well as by Candy's lawyer in court as a possible explanation. Solitude isn't going to go great for Jack, either. From the day of the death until Montgomery was arrested took 13 days." From the time of the death until the body was discovered took about 13 hours. As The Dallas News reported: "The Gores' house was the 13th from the corner. Betty was murdered on Friday the 13th (when Hulu released the "Candy" finale), which happened to be the opening of another horror film featuring a bloody ax, the first " Friday the 13th" movie. That detail is true, though in real life, it was an advertisement and not an article about Stanley Kubrick's film splayed open on Betty's table, splattered with blood. RELATED: " The true crime of Hulu's Jessica Biel-Melanie Lynskey murder series "Candy" is its wasted potential" And on the table when Betty died? A newspaper, open to a story about the horror film "The Shining," which had premiered just a few weeks before. ![]() "Candy" is rich with the transformative performances of Lynskey and Biel and syrupy thick with retro touches. But how and why the ax got in her hands, and what happened before and after, is another story. The Hulu series makes no secret of the fact it was Candy Montgomery (Jessica Biel), a fellow Texas mother and housewife, who wielded the ax that killed Betty. "Candy" tells the story of the murder of Betty Gore (Melanie Lynskey), a mother of two and housewife brutally killed in her Texas home in 1980. was it really that cool? And dark? The details were lost on me as a kid, but Hulu's true crime limited series "Candy" recreates the era in all its shag carpeting, perms and oversized glasses glory. There's been a recent glut of films and TV shows set in the '70s and early '80s, and as a child of the '80s, I'm trying to remember. The following contains spoilers from Hulu's "Candy" and "The Shining."
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