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Candyman

Cast

Helen Lyle Virginia Madsen
Candyman Tony Todd
Trevor Lyle Xander R. Berkeley
Bernadette Walsh Kasi Lemmons
Anne-Mari McCoy Vanessa Williams

Stats

Director

Bernard Rose

Rated R
Year 1992
Runtime 98 min

Score

Plot

Helen is investigating the urban legend of Candyman for thesis she is writing.  Based on The Forbidden by Clive Barker.

Review

Clive Barker lends his ultra violent imagination to the world of cinema once again, with Candyman.  It is such a great movie. 

There is an urban legend that if you look in the mirror and say Candyman five times, he will appear behind you and kill you with a hook that he has for a hand.  When Helen starts to write a thesis she decides to do it on Candyman.  She doesn't know what she is getting herself into.

Helen is played by Virginia Madsen, and she is an amazing actress.  She hits all of the emotions with flying colors.  This woman can act and that's a fact.  Heh that rhymed.

I love the way that Bernard Rose used a lot of lighting effects, it really makes the atmosphere all the more creepier.  He also uses some nice wide angled shots, which worked really well.

Gore

We get some hooking, and they are bloody.  A decapitated dog.  Butcher knife wounds, and mutilations.  Yeah!

 

4/05/04

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