Word: candyman
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...Candyman...
Unlike most horror movies, Candyman, Clive Barker's latest, has an interesting plot. It suspends disbelief and provides plenty of freaky things to ponder. But that doesn't mean it isn't scary. It's scary. After seeing it, you may need someone to hold your hand whenever you look in the mirror...
...story is pretty easy for college students to relate to. Helen (Virginia Madsen) is writing a doctoral thesis on urban myths at the University of Illinois-Chicago. In the course of her research, she stumbles upon the myth of Candyman, a mysterious being who rips people's guts out with a hook. After hearing that residents of a housing project attribute a recent murder to Candyman, she decides to investigate...
...Candyman, she learn, was a Black portrait artist who impregnated a white subject centuries ago. An angry mob chased him to the present location of the housing project, sawed off his hand with a rusty blade, covered him with honey and let bees sting him to death. Helen's investigations yield some great material, but Candyman takes a fancy to her--she looks just like his lover--and puts a crimp in her style...
...movie is an effective mixture of fantasy and reality--you're never quite sure whether Candyman is real--but there are weak moments. The portrayal of the academic lifestyle is ridiculous: at a dinner, Helen tells a professor that she will "bury" him with her findings, and the professor sneeringly refers her to an article he wrote on Candyman 10 years ago. When her research partner gets killed, you almost expect her to be happy over her increased prospects for tenure...