The Awakening of Candra 1981 

great perfomances!! love these old movies!! no special effects, just pure plot and acting!!!

Any man that takes a woman against her will is a coward. He cannot win the love of a woman so has to take what doesn't belong to him, like a thief. In trying to prove his superior strength using fear is only showing his weakness. A man like that, is not fit for any woman and deep down he knows it.

This detective guy deserves the biggest credit, if he wasn't there then this case would have remained closed forever maybe. A terrifying real life story! Sympathy to Candra.

For those who think Candra was partly to blame: The Stockholm Syndrome is real, and ex-cop (and True Crime queen) Ann Rule--in her novel, Possession-- outlines this Candra-type case brilliantly..

I played one of the Sheriff deputies in this movie. Richard Jaeckel was fantastic to work with.

Thank-you very amazing story and true...

The moment the couple noticed the gun with that stranger in that deserted place, they should've lost no time in fleeing from that place. .....Instead they choose to romance in skimpy clothes in presence of a stranger in a deserted place . Though I am extremely concerned and affected by what Candra went through, and his husband and dog had to lose their life for no valid reason.... But we should always be careful about the surroundings and body language of strangers around to safeguard ourselves

I would have went back home and also put some clothes on that man kept staring at her, you should always observe strangers around you.

For those of you who don’t know, this is a true story movie! Look it up! An they explained it on an episode of forensic files 💯😔 REAL NAMES AN ALL!

Really ? camping with Mr. Creepy on your honeymoon ?

10 minutes into picture....couple is naive.....

Ubiquitous hack Paul Wendkos directed this sleazy and sordid TVM based on a true story!!! Hardly a good film, but very watchable!!! Thank you!!!

Yes...I thought this might be about a story I remember on Unsolved Mysteries..Then I read the description and saw that it was..very sad story.

Nice movie

The actor Cliff De Young, who plays the villain in this movie reminds me of the actor Bruce Dern. He sounds just like him.

Dan M. I just researched him and I think he played in "A perfect world" with Linda Blair. He was SO good in that movie!

I was an extra in King of the Kickboxers in Hong Kong back in 1990 and met Richard Jaekel on set. He wasn't in very good health though.

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

I just saw her a couple days ago, as the grandmother, on Hidden Family Secrets, Lifetime movie!

It's the sister Ginny from Sixteen Candles!

saw an episode about this on forensic files.

This was a very good movie. But also very sad what Candra was going through with this mind sick bastard. This story hurts me during they whole film and feels me bad. This lovely couple made a big mistake to provocate this insane man staying near to him

So many stories of campers being murdered,kill the guy and rape the woman before killing her,in the 70s so much of this,if they weren't murdered they were terrorized.

cliff de young was always the good guy.. what happened to him,, another great movie filmed in Oregon, the chief played on ozzy and harriet nelson.

They remade this movie called A Murder To Remember 2020

This is the worst thing I’ve ever seen next to two girls one cup.

This description sounds like a real case on forensic files. We shall soon see.

Whoah I remember this movie ...

Low budget or not films from 70's- 80;s made you use your imagination and built you up to the climax, Now C.G. and to many teen;s in the biz movies are shit!

Horrible! How could he shoot that little cute Bunny and Dog. 💔🐰 🐕

She isn't smart for being hardly dressed in front of that guy asking for trouble

I hate to be negative but Blanche Baker might be considered a bit homely compared to her mother or to modern stars like Jessica Morris or Penelope Cruz. A re-make with a more luscious star and a narrative following the psychology of Ann Rule's novel Possession could be a classic sexually moving, suspenseful film like Dr. Zhivago.

I couldn't watch after he shot the dog. That scene made me cry .

He is coming up for parole in 2022, 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬

This annoyed me

This movie was torture to see it through to the very end. "Brainwashing," and even moreso, "Stockholm Syndrome" don't exist, PARTICULARLY not in the way that it was portrayed in this film. The fact is that people can end up staunchly believing anything regardless of what it is and what the circumstances. "Stockholm Syndrome" is essentially an individual's rational response to the environment they're in, which comes from basic human empathy. If you're stuck in a situation with someone you're completely opposed to, the normal response is to eventually develop empathy towards them if you rely on them. People attempt to diagnose a "disorder" for this type of behaviour if the rational change of ideologies is beyond what they can comprehend. It's the same idea with films like "The children of the corn." Our only way to conceptualize Nazism was to dehumanize the German people who supported it as emotionless beings. The same thing goes for how we stereotype paedophiles or serial killers. The human instinct to do that (dehumanize humans we can't empathize with) is no more of a "syndrome" than "Stockholm Syndrome."

I would have put clothes on .And left them soon as I seen them.

So many red flags in this..who goes out in a rough wilderness like that

Good movie but spoilt by the Girls very Bad Acting.

wow, so many insults towards this movie. so i guess some of you think that "film history" started with THE TRANSFORMERS. or maybe some of you think that the first movie EVER made was JURASSIC PARK. lol, every decade has it's cheese. this movie was ok, i've seen worse on youtube.

So naive omg

must watch by fool teens.

Bing Crosby son was good in this, but scrip was poorly written.The girl was flirting with Tom on her honeymoon? Dressed barely showing off her chest on the pier. Strange.

Richard Jaeckel And his Brother were good actors.

That chick is a terrible actress.

Forensic files season 9 episode 10 Ur welcomes

@13:45, the husband is dead as dead can be you know. @14:27 Rusty the dog bought the farm too.

Freak

She does not deserve to live in society. She is a pathetic excuse for a human being!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This movie just reminds me how stupid movies were in the early 80's......Very poor writing....Horrible...

Who takes their dog on their honeymoon