Candyman R

You don't have to believe... just beware.
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  • Rated: R
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: September 8, 2020
  • Originally Released: 1992
  • Label: Universal Studios

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User Ratings: 133,974
Rating: 2/4 -- Give Candyman hosannas for offering an intriguing premise, but then give it hell for not following through on its initial promise. Full Review
Film Frenzy
Dec 22, 2018
Rating: 4.5/5 -- An urban horror allegory about the white guilt people feel standing on the outside looking in, encountering worse horrors after invading places where they just don't belong. Full Review
Father Son Holy Gore
May 5, 2019
Candyman is an uppper-register horror item that delivers the requisite shocks and gore but doesn't cheat or cop out. Full Review
Variety
Sep 17, 2008
Rating: 7/10 -- Bernard Rose's Candyman offers a moody "elegance", if you will, that's sorely lacking in other horror films of the era. Full Review
PopMatters
Sep 26, 2019
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. Full Review
Little White Lies
Oct 29, 2018
Rating: 2.5/4 -- Candyman has an interesting premise. It just works under its atypical treatment of cliches. But a good movie? I don't think so. [Full review in Spanish]. Full Review
Cinelipsis
Jan 5, 2020
Rating: 3.5/5 -- The film's spooky atmosphere is accentuated by Anthony B. Richmond's cinematography and Philip Glass's score.
New York Times
May 20, 2003

Product Description:

Folklorics graduate student Helen Lyle's (Virginia Madsen) thesis research leads her into the urban underworld of Chicago's Cabrini-Green housing projects, whose residents are genuinely terrified of "Candyman" (Tony Todd), a legendary figure with a hook for a hand. Skeptical, she "summons" him in front of a mirror and discovers with horror that he's real and wants her to join him in his "mythic" world; when she refuses, he murders those in her wake, leaving her to be charged with the crimes. She tries to explain who the real culprit is, but her efforts fail, and authorities commit her to a mental hospital. This taut horror thriller is based on "The Forbidden," by Clive Barker, who also executive-produced.

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  • Sales Rank: 42,237
  • UPC: 191329134030
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