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.
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Candyman (1992)
This 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.
1992Rating: R16, contains violence95 minsUSA
Horror
- Director:
- Bernard Rose ('Paperhouse', 'Smart Money')
- Writer:
- Clive Barker
- Cast:
- Xander BerkeleyVanessa WilliamsVirginia MadsenTony ToddKasi Lemmons
Candyman (1992) | Reviews
Roger Ebert
What I liked was a horror movie that was scaring me with ideas and gore, instead of simply with gore.
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The New York Times
The film's spooky atmosphere is accentuated by Anthony B. Richmond's cinematography and Philip Glass's score.
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Variety
Candyman is an uppper-register horror item that delivers the requisite shocks and gore but doesn't cheat or cop out.
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Little White Lies
Candyman 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.
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