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Candyman
Directed by
Bernard Rose
R
1992
1h 40m
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6.7
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The Candyman, a murderous soul with a hook for a hand, is accidentally summoned to reality by a skeptic grad student researching the monster's myth.
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Candyman Ratings & Reviews
Slant Magazine
Budd Wilkins
Candyman explicitly becomes a horror story about the power and fascination of horror stories.
Queerty
David Reddish
Todd knows the perfect way to use his towering build and basso voice to intimidate and seduce. He embodies the sex & death hallmark of all Clive Barkers work better than any other actor ever has. It is, quite simply, a great performance.
Deep Focus Review
Brian Eggert
Candyman's lasting greatness lies in its richness as a readable text and its ability to stoke our desire to keep finding new interpretations - even if its relevance continues to develop in disturbing ways.
Chicago Daily Herald
Dann Gire
Tony Todd shot to international stardom in this Chicago-based horror hit...
Horror Queers Podcast
Trace Thurman
A topical and prescient adaptation of Clive Barker's short story "The Forbidden", Candyman will stick with you long after the credits roll.
Horror Queers Podcast
Joe Lipsett
The film not only gave us Tony Todd's dulcet-toned titular character, it attempted to tackle race, class inequality and gentrification in a progressive way - at a time when it wasn't fashionable. Plus (spoiler) Helen is the real villain of the piece
The Moving Picture Show
Joe Leydon
There's enough full-bore gore to satisfy genre fans, but not so much that it obliterates the movie's flashes of savage wit and crafty intelligence.
Mr. Movie's Film Blog
Travis Johnson
A chilly, bloody, romantic, and intelligent slice of horror that stands as a modern classic of the genre.
Bitch Media
Monica Castillo
Wonderfully playing against expectation, Candyman leaves you wondering where the story will go next, something missing in most horror movies.
KSDK News (St. Louis)
Dan Buffa
...the Tony Todd-starring classic from 1992 was something else.
Chicago Tribune
Dave Kehr
If Candyman doesn't live up to its potential, it does fulfill most of the Saturday night requirements. The action is swift, if excessively graphic, and Madsen proves a strong-willed, sympathetic lead.
The Hollywood Reporter
Michael Rechtshaffen
This Candyman can elicit some bona fide shivers while the picture that bears his name is high-caliber horror in its purest, most primal form.
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Thomas
To pull it off would take the utmost artistry and imagination, but writer-director Bernard Rose expends his energy mainly on the easier task of churning up violence and gore for its own sake.
Variety
Variety Staff
Candyman is an uppper-register horror item that delivers the requisite shocks and gore but doesn't cheat or cop out.
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Like so many post-Val Lewton horror films, this 1992 feature starts out promisingly while the plot is mainly a matter of suggestion, but gradually turns gross and obvious as the meanings become literal and unambiguous.
Slant Magazine
Eric Henderson
The Candyman is a svelte, sexual monument, far removed from the silent brutality of your average serial slasher.
New York Times
Janet Maslin
The film's spooky atmosphere is accentuated by Anthony B. Richmond's cinematography and Philip Glass's score.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
What I liked was a horror movie that was scaring me with ideas and gore, instead of simply with gore.
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
Director Rose seems not to know what to show next, and whether this is in an effort to keep his audience guessing or not, it only ends up making what could have been an exceptionally disturbing film exceptionally annoying.
Washington Post
Richard Harrington
Madsen is a much better actress than is usually found in such a role. However, if you don't like splashes of blood or bees swarming out of bodies, you may want to think twice about this one.
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