
Empire Magazine
At its heart, Candyman terrifies because of its ideas. It sinks its horrific foundations very much in the real world of poverty and racial alienation.
Full reviewThis hit 1992 slasher centers on The Candyman - a murderous soul with a hook for a hand, the son of a slave killed in the late 19th century - who is accidentally summoned (by saying his name five times in the mirror) by a sociology student (Virginia Madsen) researching the monster's myth.
At its heart, Candyman terrifies because of its ideas. It sinks its horrific foundations very much in the real world of poverty and racial alienation.
Full reviewWhat I liked was a horror movie that was scaring me with ideas and gore, instead of simply with gore.
Full reviewThe film's spooky atmosphere is accentuated by Anthony B. Richmond's cinematography and Philip Glass's score.
Full reviewCandyman is an uppper-register horror item that delivers the requisite shocks and gore but doesn't cheat or cop out.
Full reviewCandyman offers a plot riddled with narrative ambiguities that are never fully resolved, all as a spur to the hooked viewer to spread their own take on the Candyman myth, and so to keep it alive.
Full reviewCandyman (1992) is available to stream in New Zealand now on Google Play and Apple TV.
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