Candyman
1992 Directed by Bernard Rose
Synopsis
You don't have to believe... just beware.
The Candyman, a murderous soul with a hook for a hand, is accidentally summoned to reality by a skeptic grad student researching the monster's myth.
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"Week 1 of the Adapted April Challenge"
I was very excited that my first assignment was to be Candyman , a movie that I wanted to see for a long time. I had heard very much about it, but mostly that it was an important horror movie everyone interested in horror should see. So I knew nothing specific about it and just figured it would be an usual horror flick about an unstoppable killer, your standard run-of-the-mill shlasher film if you will, adored by horror enthusiasts.
I was very pleasently surprised that this movie was so much more.
Candyman is based on the short story "The Forbidden" by Clive Barker and the film's plot revolves around a grad student (played…
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"It was always you, Helen. Come with me and be immortal."
This classic frightened a generation of their own bathroom mirrors. Totally under-appreciated upon it's release, even to this day but Bernard Rose's contemporary horror based on the short story, The Forbidden, by Clive Barker is a minor masterpiece and features a menacing performance from Tony Todd. While Freddy Kruger, Michael Myers and others stole the horror limelight, the Candyman not just haunt my dreams but forced me to avoid the mirror all the way through my teenage years of school in the fear that Candyman would appear and rip his hook through my gullet - in turn it didn't make me very popular in school. If you haven't seen…
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"Candyman Candyman Candyman Candyman Candy......." FUCK THAT!! I still won't do it.
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Directed by - Bernard Rose
Written by - Bernard Rose
Based on The Forbidden by- Clive Barker
Starring - Virginia Madsen, Tony Todd, Xander Berkeley, Kasi Lemmons, Vanessa Williams and DeJuan GuyWhen I was a kid, Candyman had already seeped into the public consciousness so much that he occasionally became the topic of conversation in the playground. Though none of us had actually seen the film, we all knew the legend…
“I dare you to stand in front of the mirror and say ‘Candyman’ five times” a friend would say.
“No problem” I’d say.I don’t think I ever made it past four, so terrified was I that there was even the tiniest bit of truth in the legend.…
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This movie is so insanely underrated. The first hour or so of this is perfect and is scary no matter how many times you've seen it. Things get kind of weird and have an Italian Horror kind of logic for a while nearing the third act, but the finale is so beautiful and tragic and dreadful that it brings everything back around.
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Who can take a sunrise
Sprinkle it in dew
Cover it in chocolate
and a miracle or two?The candyman
The candyman can
The candyman can cause he mixes it with love and makes the world taste goodWho can take a rainbow
Wrap it in a sigh
Soak it in the sun
and make a strawberry lemon pie?The candyman?
The candyman
The candyman can
The candyman can cause he mixes it with love and makes the world taste goodWilly Wonka makes
Everything he bakes
Satisfying and delicious
Talk about your childhood wishes
You can even eat the dishesWho can take tomorrow
Dip it in a deam
Seperate the sorrow
And collect up all the cream?The candyman
The candyman canSeriously, how awesome would this have been if Tony Todd just broke out of nowhere and just sang this?
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"Candyman" is a weird film for me. Sometimes I absolutely love it and sometimes I absolutely hate it. Only film that really does that to me.
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how disappointed i was by "hellraiser" is pretty much how pleasantly surprised i was by "candyman". although not as great as his earlier "paper house", rose is a far more intelligent director than barker and he's got a lot of very, very good ideas up his sleeve. one of the most intelligent, understated (oddly, considering the plot) and foreboding modern horror films i've seen
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Dunno - its ok, not as good as I recall, and nothing that'll make me want to come back to it really.
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I was regretting having to watch this for two reasons.
1. I'm really not a fan of the majority of horror films.
2. Entomophobia: A common fear of or aversion to insects and similar arthropods. (This is also why it's taken me years to watch Silence of the Lambs)
But...this actually was okay for me. Maybe bees don't set me off that bad, or maybe it was because this was more than just a jump scare filled slasher film. I'd like to think it was because this was a really great horror film. Because it was.
More psychological then you'd expect, and watching Virginia Madsen get the shit kicked out of her for 90 minutes and you never feel like…
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This movie is so insanely underrated. The first hour or so of this is perfect and is scary no matter how many times you've seen it. Things get kind of weird and have an Italian Horror kind of logic for a while nearing the third act, but the finale is so beautiful and tragic and dreadful that it brings everything back around.
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Directed by - Bernard Rose
Written by - Bernard Rose
Based on The Forbidden by- Clive Barker
Starring - Virginia Madsen, Tony Todd, Xander Berkeley, Kasi Lemmons, Vanessa Williams and DeJuan GuyWhen I was a kid, Candyman had already seeped into the public consciousness so much that he occasionally became the topic of conversation in the playground. Though none of us had actually seen the film, we all knew the legend…
“I dare you to stand in front of the mirror and say ‘Candyman’ five times” a friend would say.
“No problem” I’d say.I don’t think I ever made it past four, so terrified was I that there was even the tiniest bit of truth in the legend.…
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Well... they got the 'say his name five times' thing right, but apart from that this movie is absolutely nothing like that nice clown who would drop by our elementary school in his van sometimes during recess.
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Not what I remembered it to be. Way too little screen time for Tony Todd. Way too little.
Madsen is ok, for what she's supposed to be, but she's in almost every frame, wich after a while became a bit tiresome.In the end I learned what i probably knew already; that I will never be able to say his name five times in the mirror, not for all the money in the world. So it still succeeds in that area.
Oh, and did my little eye spot Isaiah Whitlock in the police lineup? Shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit. -
A Beautiful Slasher film that I really Enjoyed!!