Candyman (Special Edition)
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Movie Reviews of Candyman (Special Edition)
Movie Review: Too pretentious to be scary
Summary: 3 Stars
I got this DVD on post-Halloween clearance at Kroger's for $5, which is precisely what it's worth. The blood 'n' guts and scary moments are few and far between, replaced by Clive Barker's pretentious BS and constant dreamy close-ups of Virginia Madsen and her amazing cheekbones.Movie Review: Unsatisfying
Summary: 3 Stars
This was good but annoying and it leaves a bad taste in your mouth.
In the end you gain nothing from watching a film like this where the script is neither here nor there..
Movie Review: Weirddd Movie
Summary: 3 Stars
I watched this when I was much younger and liked it. But I never really understood. So I watched it again. WOW. It is really messed up.Movie Review: This Candyman will leave a sour taste in your mouths.
Summary: 2 Stars
Candyman, is shall we say not that good as a horror movie. Those of you who think this is the end all horror movie, as evidenced by many of the reviews I've read here really don't get to see many horror movies I see. As I understand it, it is based on what is popular known as these days, a Urban Myth. You say Candyman five times in front of a mirror and he's supposed to appear. One can only hope nothing is actually that easy.
Candyman as explained in the movie was the son of a former slave, way back then after the Civil War I believe. His father was a inventor and he became rich, so his son (Candyman) went to all the best schools, had all the best in education, clothing, upbring and was brought up quite the Southern gentlemen in polite society. He also had great skill as a artist and painter. It was this skill, that eventually led to his downfall. For it was in this regard that he was a commissioned by a weatlhy man to paint a portait of his lovely daughter. She was white and he was black in ye old good ol' South and wouldn't you know it, them two took a fancy to each other and despite all odds fell in love.
BAD IDEA!! You see in racist ol' time South, them good ol' boys, rich or not, respected his skill and tolerated him, a wealthy black man as far as they would or could. But the fact remained, he was black, she was white and when her daddy found out what was going on, let's just say he wasn't "civil" about it. He paid a mob to chase Candyman down through the streets, where when they caught up to him, they sawed off his hand and put a hook in the bloody stump that used to be his hand. They also smeared honey all over his body and had him attacked by a hive of bee's. Well! there goes the facade of southern hospitality right out the window there.
So ever since, he's come back as a boogeyman, mostly to the tenants of a ghetto housing project. His "Congregation" so to speak who keep him alive in the tales they tell in hushed whispers to each other that Candyman will get ya. This lovely young lady called Helen, who is researching her thesis on the urban myth of Candyman travels to the projects to try to uncover the truth. That too is a bad idea. Her disbelief in the Candyman legend and her efforts to try and convince the people that it was just your typical old gang bangers and crazed killers who were responsible for the recent rash of grisly killings in the projects. This for some reason arouses the real actual live Candyman into action.
I mean you have to get almost to the end portion of the movie before you even get to see the Candyman himself. That's NEVER good in ANY horror movie. The music is AWESOME!!
The score to this movie, ESPECIALLY, the main title/ending scores is probably the only thing about the movie that gets imprinted on your brain after you see it.
Tony Todd is a great actor who has had a lot of parts over the years in good movies, such as "The Rock" with Nicohlas Cage & Sean Connery, along with Ed Harris. He was in "The Crow" ofcourse with Brandon Lee. He's been in a few Hercules & Xena episodes. Ofcourse many of you will remember he had that bit part in "Final Destination 1 & 2" the spooky but wise funeral director who happens to know all about death's design. To his credit he does what he can here, but what is there to do? Slash a few people? Talk in that low, but creepy drone like voice that he has?
He finally appears way too too late to have any real affect on the movie. Most of what you see before Tony (Candyman) actually appearing is just plain filler. It makes no sense to me that it took Virgina Madsen's character to not take the stories of Candyman seriously, and her trying to discredit him and tell all those people in the projects that he didn't exist to get him to appear finally, in the flesh so to speak. He is real and he was the one who killed all those people but why would it take a so called non believer to spur him into action again? Makes no sense.
Lets just say, this aint no academy award winner, and ANYONE touting this as the horror movie to end all horror movies has no idea what they are talking about. Grade this as a "B -" horror flick and even THAT'S being kind. Later.
Movie Review: A missed oppurtunity
Summary: 2 Stars
For about the first thirty-five minutes or so, this movie did a pretty good job building atmosphere and (seemingly) leading up to some serious chills. It deals with Helen, a college student and newspaper editor and the protagonist of the story, interviewing those who have information about the legend of the murderous Candyman. I couldnt wait to see where it went next.
But part of the movie's problem is it hardly does go anywhere. Our first encounter with the Candyman lasts about a minute, and is a letdown. Helen sees him calling to her in a parking lot, blacks out, and wakes up in a heap of blood next to a beheaded dog and the dog's owner (whom Helen interviewed earlier) screaming that her baby has been taken. And thats where the movie starts to go downhill. There's a misguided plot twist that puts Helen in a mental institution for seeing things and acting psychotic, since she can see the Candyman but no one else can. However, it would have been much scarier if he was real and wasn't a figment of her imagination that only becomes real when he decides to kill people. There's a strange climax at a bonfire that makes little sense and is not satisfying when linked to the rest of the movie. And then theres the actual Candyman, who shows up at random times and mumbles things to Helen that make little sense. All in all, Candyman is not only dull but disappointing for not living up to the first half hour of itself.