Candyman (Special Edition)
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Movie Reviews of Candyman (Special Edition)
Movie Review: Candyman....
Summary: 4 Stars
This one still gives me the creeps especially if I see it on cable late at night. Once they start chanting Candyman, Candy Man... well, I won't even say it in the mirror at home no way! Clive Barker is a wonderful author and this is a fine adaptation of one of his stories.Movie Review: Better than expected!
Summary: 4 Stars
This movie turned out to be more involving and structured than I expected. It tends to drag in the middle but it's complexity increases as the plot moves along. Overall: PRETTY GOOD!Movie Review: Cerebral horror movie, but undercooked
Summary: 3 Stars
Bernard Rose's adaptation of Clive Barker's novel starts out wonderfully. University researcher Helen Lyle (Virginia Madsen) is investigating urban legends and finds that one of them might have a basis in reality. Numerous leads draw her to the Chicago's infamous Cabrini-Green housing complex where residents speak of a supernatural killer who appears when his victims say his name five times in front of a mirror, then disembowels them. Is it a myth? Is the Candyman some kind of serial killer associated with the drug trade? Or is he something supernatural after all? It's a great setup and the early scenes are handled masterfully, establishing the requisite tension and an engaging subtext about sexual double-standards, marital infidelity, and yuppie race anxiety - Helen discovers that her own apartment block was built as a housing project but then converted to condos when social planners realized it was too close to the white folk's suburbs. Unfortunately, the movie goes off the rails almost immediately after the Candyman himself appears. Helen is confronted in a parking station by a mysterious black man then wakes up in a blood-soaked apartment back at Cabrini-Green. She is accused of kidnapping a baby and things go from bad to worse for Helen - and for the audience - as the story lumbers from one violent confrontation to another. Is the Candyman really a supernatural force of evil empowered by those who believe in his legend, or is he a manifestation of the victim's own tortured conscience? "Candyman" admirably taps into a range of white, middle-class anxieties and delivers something certainly more cerebral than the average horror movie, but it isn't quite as successful as it should have been.Movie Review: Original Horror With Style...and Flaws
Summary: 3 Stars
From the mind of Clive Barker comes a tale of ghost stories that just might be real.
The beautiful chain-smoking grad student Helen is studying an urban legend about a serial killer whose identity is threatened by her, and he begins appearing again to exact his bloody revenge. That is the concept of Candyman. There's more, but this is a review, not a Cliff's Notes book.
Certain aspects of this film showed such promise. Candyman has an intimate and powerful desire for Helen that leads you to think that this evil being has chosen her (just a normal, pretty white girl?) for something deeper than she knows. ("It was Always You, Helen"...) This piqued my curiosity but it never paid off somehow.
All in all, it's a fair horror venue with lots of blood (and bees), and an unusual music score from Philip Glass.
If you've seen all the others, here's one that you might enjoy for its story and style.
I always giggle towards the end when the girl asks for help in making the salad, and she is holding a huge knife. It looks as if she is preparing to make her way through the Congo. About as subtle as a garlic sandwich.
The ending, such as it is, left me disappointed. It was tacked-on, typical, and predictable. That's Hollywood.
Movie Review: How do you make an urban thriller?
Summary: 3 Stars
Certainly not like this! Too much weight was on the slicing end and not enough on the true chills.
Virginia Madsen and Tony Todd are excellent, as always. The story has potential, but they missed the mark somewhere. The scenes where The Candyman is haunting Madsen's character are very good, but short-lived. More attention should have been paid to these scenes and less to the blood and gore.
Much better gore-fests are out there with better developed stories.... I recommend... ANY of them.