Candyman

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Candyman Films, Inc./Rated R. </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Director.........Bernard Rose(Chicago Joe and the Showgirl,Paperhouse)</B></div> <div> <B>Screenplay.......Bernard Rose</B></div> <div> <B>Music............Phillip Glass</B></div> <div> <B>Producers........Steve Golin, Sigurjon Sighvatsson, & Alan Poul</B></div> <div> <B>Executive Producer.....Clive Barker</B></div> <div> <B>Based on "The Forbidden" by Clive Barker</B></div> <div> <B>Special Make-up Effects by Bob Heen</B></div> <div> <B>Special Effects Created by Martin Bresin</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Dramatis Personae</B></div> <div> <B>Helen Lyle.........Virginia Madsen (Highlander 2, Linda, Zombie High)</B></div> <div> <B>Candyman...........Tony Todd(Ivory Hunters,Night ofthe Living Dead'90)</B></div> <div> <B>Trevor Lyle........Xander Berkeley</B></div> <div> <B>Bernadette Walsch..Kasi Lemmons (Hard Target)</B></div> <div> <B>Anne-Marie McCoy...Vanessa Williams (The Jacksons: An American Dream)</B></div> <div> <B>Jake...............Dejuan Guy</B></div> <div> <B>Purcell............Michael Culhin</B></div> <div> <B>Dr. Burke..........Stanley DeSantis</B></div> <div> <B>Det. Frank Valento.Gilbert Lewis (Gordon's War, Touched)</B></div> <div> <B>Billy..............Ted Raimi (Army of Darkness,Lunatics: A Love Story)</B></div> <div> <B>Gang Leader........Terrence Riggins</B></div> <div> <B>Anthony............John Rensenhouse</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Critique: This is a very well made and scary movie that plays nicely on the importance of myth and the possible danger to both society and the individual of exposing myth for what it is. This plays well on two levels. On one level, Candyman exists only as a projection and a defense mechanism for Helen in denial of her madness and desire to commit suicide, as well as an explanation for ghetto inhabitants of the horrors of everyday life make him a much better self-perpetuating myth than the boring "alligator in the city sewer" myth. On another level, you can simply take him for reality. The fact that the baby survived a month with Candyman and without Helen blurs the lines. The ritual bonfire set every year at the Cabrini Projects to burn the Candyman is a modern day Halloween celebration to fend off evil spirits. The strong social commentary has a deft touch and is never intrusive. Who is projecting their misery onto Candyman, the urbanites who can't escape, or the guilt-ridden graduate student? Subtlety in a slasher movie? Yep. Superior production values and acting make this rather complicated movie well worth watching. The Candyman is scary.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>* Blood * Violent * Strong Language * Brief Nudity *</B></div> <div> <B>* No Sexual Situations *</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Plot Summary: "What's blood for if not for shedding? With my hook for a hand I'll split you from your groin to your gullet! I came for you!" Say Candyman's name five times while looking in the mirror in South Chicago's Cabrini Green projects and he appears behind you with a hook jammed in the bloody stump where his hand once was. Two University of Illinois graduate students, Helen Lyle and Bernadette Walsch, are doing a study on urban folklore, in their field but way out of their milieu. The thesis of our academics is that the urban poor attribute the miseries of their daily lives to the mythical Candyman. Helen's cheating husband/professor Trevor, also a sociologist, lumps all urban legends together, like the myth of the alligators in the urban sewer, the Candyman is a projection of urban angst and a diversion. The cleaning ladies at the university from the projects know better and put Helen on the trail of Ruthie Jean's killer. Our heroines enter the projects to get hands-on information. As scared as they are, their desire is to go way beyond regurgitating the traditional theses as a "new" dissertation. While investigating Ruthie Jean's apartment, they meet Ann Marie, a single mother trying hard to make it. She admits she's scared for her child, scared of Candyman. Helen says how she would like to have a child. At dinner that night, Professor Purcell upstages the graduate students with his knowledge and the paper he wrote ten years ago on Candyman. The legend first appeared in 1890. Candyman was the son of a slave who amassed a great fortune with his invention for the mass production of shoes and was a talented artist, commissioned to paint a rich man's father, whose daughter fell in love with him and became pregnant. A mob organized by the girl's father sawed off his right hand, spread him with honey and loosed a hive of bees on him. After a miserable death, he was burned on a giant pyre and his ashes were strewn over Cabrini Green. Helen visits the project alone and meets a little boy named Jake who finally talks even though he believes Candyman will get him if he talks. He agrees to show her where Candyman is which is a public bathroom where Candyman castrated a retarded boy some time ago. She finds the murder scene covered with bees when she is suddenly cornered by a gang and brutally beaten. The persistence of the legend could be attributed to the hook-toting drug lord who has cashed in on the legend, but you'd have to be a bit naive to buy that. There is a much more dangerous and bitter Candyman to deal with for those who have to believe and Helen bumps into him in the campus parking garage. Helen awakes covered with blood in Ann Marie's apartment where the dog is beheaded and the baby is missing. She is arrested for murder, Trevor is not home when she calls, and she is soon released. When Helen is found with a second mutilated body, she is institutionalized, but escapes with Candyman's help, to find a new grad student living with Trevor. As the project residents prepare for an annual ritual to keep the Candyman away by recreating the bonfire, Helen is out to stop the Candyman on a more personal level and in the process becomes an urban legend herself, ironically, a legacy of life and hope. Once our heroine is drawn into the Candyman's domain, it becomes apparent that her transferal of miseries thesis, although correct, might need some revision regarding her personal views.</B></div> </td> </tr></table></body>