Candyman

Helen Lyle is a student who decides to write a thesis about local legends and myths. She visits a part of the town…

• Director: Bernard Rose
• Genre:Drama / Fantasy / Horror / Mystery / Thriller
• Runtime:95 minutes

Cast

Virginia Madsen :: Helen Lyle
Tony Todd : The Candyman / Daniel Robitaille
Xander Berkeley .: Trevor Lyle
Kasi Lemmons : Bernadette ‘Bernie’ Walsh
Vanessa Williams : Anne-Marie McCoy

Helen Lyle is a graduate student conducting research for her thesis on urban legends. While interviewing freshmen about their superstitions, she hears about a local legend known as Candyman, the son of a slave who was brutally tortured and murdered because of a love affair with the daughter of a local (white) plantation owner. According to the legend, anyone who looks into a mirror and chants his name five times will summon him, but at the cost of the Individual’s own life, similar to the Bloody Mary folkloric tale. Helen believes that Candyman cannot exist and jokingly calls his name in the mirror in her house.

To further explore the urban legend, Helen enters the notorious gang-ridden territory known as the Cabrini-Green housing projects, the site of a recent unsolved murder of Ruthie Jean, a woman who claimed someone was coming through her walls. On her second visit to the projects, Helen meets a young single mother, Anne-Marie McCoy. She then encounters a young boy who takes her to a bathroom where a brutal attack on a mentally-handicapped child had taken place. She finds one toilet full of bees and the words “Sweets to the Sweet” written on the walls, which had been seen earlier in the housing project. As she is leaving, she is stopped by a gang and attacked by a man with a hook. This man turns out to be a drug dealer who has assumed the name “Candyman” to enhance his own street credibility by associating himself with the legend. The police identify him as the murderer of Ruthie Jean, leading Helen to believe her search has reached a dead end.

After recovering from her attack, Helen walks through a parking garage on the day she returns to school. She is entranced by a voice calling her name who then reveals himself to be the Candyman of the urban legend. Candyman states that because of Helen’s disbelief, he must show her that he is in fact real. She blacks out and later wakes up in a pool of blood, finding herself in the apartment of Anne-Marie, who is screaming for her baby, who is missing. The apartment is covered in the blood of Anne-Marie’s decapitated rottweiler. Hysterical, Anne-Marie attacks Helen on sight, and Helen is forced to defend herself with a meat cleaver she has found on the floor. The police then enter the apartment and arrest Helen. Read more

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