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Director
Bernard Rose
Year
1992
Country
USA, UK
Runtime
99 min

Also released as

  • Candyman : Le Spectre Maléfique
  • Candyman, El Dominio de la Mente
  • Кэндимен
  • Кондитер
  • Κάντιμαν
  • Clive Barker's Candyman
  • The Forbidden

Candyman

Candyman is a 1992 American and British psychological horror film directed by Bernard Rose.

Philip Glass wrote the score believing it was an art film. That mistake is why it sounds like nothing else.

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A graduate student researching urban legends in Chicago goes to Cabrini-Green to investigate a story the residents tell about a hook-handed figure summoned by saying his name five times.

Bernard Rose adapted a Clive Barker story set in Liverpool and moved it to a real housing project, shooting in the actual buildings with residents involved, which gives it a documentary weight almost nothing in the genre has.

Tony Todd is extraordinary: the voice is the effect, and he had real bees in his mouth for the final sequences under a mouthguard, and was stung repeatedly.

Glass took the commission thinking it was a small independent film, was upset when it was marketed as a slasher, and wrote an organ and choral score that gives the film a grandeur it would not otherwise have.

The politics, about who gets believed and whose deaths get investigated, are unusually sharp for 1992.

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