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Alison Stine

How "Candy" is linked to "The Shining"

Candy (Jessica Biel) in "Candy" | Terrified Shelley Duvall in lobby card for the film 'The Shining', 1980. Photo illustration by Salon/Tina Rowden/Hulu/Warner Brothers/Getty Images
The following contains spoilers from Hulu's "Candy" and "The Shining."

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 . . . 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.

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