To call Never Take Sweets From a Stranger a horror film may seem like stretch, but it’s really not.
Among the most alarming of that lot is director Cyril Frankel’s Never Take Sweets From a Stranger (re-titled Never Take Candy From a Stranger for its U.S. release), a jet-black and shocking thriller (based on the play The Pony Trap by Roger Garis) and a film that, despite its vintage, nevertheless packs a wallop.
Director Frankel would later go on the helm Hammer’s supernatural drama The Witches and that’s a strong film.
It’s a movie whose dismal truths about how the powerful buy silence and how children must suffer the sins of their elders tragically and endlessly.