Candyman (1992)

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Directed by: Bernard Rose

Starring: Virginia Madsen, Xander Berkeley, Tony Todd, Kasi Lemmons

Genres: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller

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Bernadette 'Bernie' Walsh: This is sick, Helen! This isn't one of your fairytales, a woman got killed here.

Anne-Marie McCoy: White people never come 'round here except to cause us a problem.
Helen Lyle: Believe me, that's not what we want to do.

Bernadette 'Bernie' Walsh: Helen, be careful! The could be somebody on the toilet.

Candyman: Your death will be a tale to frighten children; to make lovers cling closer to their rapture. Come with me, and be immortal.

Candyman: Be my victim.

Candyman: You're mine now. Tonight our congregation shall witness a new miracle.

Anne-Marie McCoy: You say you're doing a study? What 'you gonna study? How we're bad? We steal? We gang-bang? We're ALL on drugs right?.. We ain't all like them assholes downstairs, you know. I just wanna raise my child good.

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Mistakes

Continuity mistake: The first time Helen is at Cabrini Green and she goes through the medicine cabinet into the other apartment she has to actually crawl through the small opening in the wall where the medicine cabinet is, but when she goes back at the end to find the baby the hole in the wall has grown considerably, she just crouches and walks right through.

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Suggested correction: The hole became bigger because the Candyman is there now. Do you expect him to crawl?

I don't expect him to have to go through the opening at all since he is the Candyman. He can get into places without walking through a physical opening.

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Trivia

Trivia: The film is notable for featuring a sympathetic but still truly evil African American villain (garbed in a black long-coat) and for exploring the harsh conditions poor African American families are often forced to live under. This is actually quite ironic, as in the original short story by Clive Barker ("The Forbidden"), the action all takes place in England and the Candyman is portrayed as an incredibly pale white man with long, blonde hair and an weirdly colorful coat made up of patches of different materials.

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Questions

Question: What did Candyman mean when he told Helen it was always her? Why was he so interested in Helen?

Answer: When Helen goes back and sees the mural of his murder, the camera lingers on a woman in the picture that looks like her. This is the woman Candyman was in love with before he was killed. The implication is either she was reincarnated as Helen, or Helen reminded him of her, hence his interest in her.

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