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Not to be confused with the Counting Crows album, the title track of that album or even the other album of the same name by [[Madonna]]. Or actual hard candy.

 

* [[Abuse Is Okay When Its Female On Male]]: Played straight as Hayley, a fourteen year old girl, is torturing Jeff as punishment for supposedly being a 32-year-old male predator {{spoiler|(Jeff IS a predator, but it is not made absolutely clear in the movie, so viewers will abide by this trope at first)}}, then [[Deconstructed Trope|deconstructed]] as Hayley crosses the [[Moral Event Horizon]], and then [[Reconstructed Trope|reconstructed]] as Jeff's deeds get increasingly violent as well as Hayley uncovering more evidence that Jeff is a predator.

* [[Alone With the Psycho]]: Played with as the roles of "psycho" and "victim" switch several times between Hayley and Jeff from the second act onwards.

* [[Evil Versus Evil]]

* [[Exploitation Film]]

* [[Foreshadowing]]: {{spoiler|"She slept with all the wrong people and ended up killing herself."}}

** And not long after that, {{spoiler|"Four out of five doctors agree that I am actually insane."}}

* [[Groin Attack]]: Easily one of the most horrible groin assaults in cinema. {{spoiler|It's also a subversion.}}

* [[Hannibal Lecture]]: Is just one of the many [[Breaking Speech|Breaking Speeches]] thrown back and forth.

* [[Hoist By His Own Petard]] or [[Karmic Death]], from a certain point of view.

* [[Hopper Shot]]: The Nighthawks and a T-Shirt. An homage to the painting.

* [[Pedo Hunt]]

* [[Porn Stash]]

* [[Scenery Porn]]: The director had previously done music videos. The production looks absolutely sumptuous, even though the production was made on a shoestring -- exactly the state of most music videos.

* [[Serial Killer]]: {{spoiler|By the end of the film, Hayley has a body count of at least two men. It's strongly implied that these are not her first.}}

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