Unsane is a horror film about mental health care. Yes, we’re toying with problematic subject matter here for the horror genre. Somehow, director Steven Soderbergh and writers Jonathan Bernstein and James Greer craft a horror film that doesn’t vilify mental health patients, largely because the main characters in the film are patients at a mental hospital who really don’t belong in that kind of facility. Yes, that itself is a cinematic trope, but it’s handled in a way that at least explains through believable circumstances how the setup happens.

The Devil’s Candy is a possession/haunted house film with a metal soundtrack and edge. A family moves into their dream house, even though they are told their dream house just had two people die in it a few days before. The father starts to exhibit the same signs and troubles of the surviving member of the previous family who lived there. First he hears whispers. Then, the only way to stop the whispers is to create. Good thing this father is a professional painter and not someone whose only release is one chord on a guitar. The film follows the parallel narratives of the two men possessed by whatever force lives in the house.