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Release Date:
16 October 1992 (USA)
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Tagline:
We Dare You To Say His Name Five Times! more
Plot:
Helen Lyle is a student who decides to write a thesis about local legends and myths. She visits a part of the town...
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4 wins
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5 nominations
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Tony Todd Muses on Candyman 4
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(From shocktillyoudrop. 18 December 2009)
Exclusive: Tony Todd Talks Dark Christmas, Hatchet 2, and Candyman IV
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ok, a little anticlimactic, so what?
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Virginia Madsen | ... | Helen Lyle |
 | Tony Todd | ... | The Candyman / Daniel Robitaille |
 | Xander Berkeley | ... | Trevor Lyle |
| Kasi Lemmons | ... | Bernadette 'Bernie' Walsh |
 | Vanessa Williams | ... | Anne-Marie McCoy |
| DeJuan Guy | ... | Jake |
 | Marianna Elliott | ... | Clara (as Marianna Eliott) |
 | Ted Raimi | ... | Billy |
 | Ria Pavia | ... | Monica |
| Mark Daniels | ... | Student |
| Lisa Ann Poggi | ... | Diane |
| Adam Philipson | ... | Danny |
 | Eric Edwards | ... | Harold |
| Carolyn Lowery | ... | Stacey |
| Barbara Alston | ... | Henrietta Mosely |
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Also Known As:
Clive Barker's Candyman (USA) (complete title)
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Rated R for violence and gore.
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99 min
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Certification:
Iceland:16 |
Sweden:15 |
France:-16 |
Canada:13+ (Quebec) |
Philippines:R-18 |
New Zealand:R16 |
Ireland:18 |
Australia:M |
Finland:K-16 |
Germany:18 |
Norway:18 (video premiere) |
Singapore:NC-16 |
South Korea:18 |
Spain:18 |
UK:18 |
USA:R (certificate #31870)
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Exterior, hallway and stairway scenes were actually filmed for a few days in the infamous Cabrini-Green housing projects, though the producers had to make a deal with the ruling gang members to put them in the movie as extras to ensure the cast and crew's safety during filming. Even with this arrangement, a sniper put a bullet through the production van on the last day of filming, though no one was injured.
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Continuity: When Helen goes back to save the baby, she opens the medicine cabinet which is about a foot and 1/2 wide and 2 feet long, but when the camera shoots Helen from behind just as she enters the opening, the cabinet opening is much wider and longer almost window size.
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STATE OF INDEPENDENCE
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Candyman is one of my all time favorite horror movies. It is genuinely scary, and it makes one have second thoughts when standing in front of a mirror.
What I particularly enjoyed about the movie is the multidimensional development of the plot at the sociological, psychological, and parapsychological level. The first scene of the movie presents in a nutshell the experience that the viewer is going to have, an experience so common (regarding urban legends) yet so distant.
The acting (esp. by Virginia Madsen) is superb. The setting could not be more perfect. The shaggy, derelict apartment buildings at Cabrini Green create the proper ambience for what is to follow.
Certainly the gory scenes are not very attractive, and in a way such explicit portrayal does not seem necessary, since the psychological suspense is the driving force of the movie. Also the ending is rather anticlimactic and overdrawn. Disappointing sequel....
Fun to watch with people who scare easily!