Memorable, crazy movie

For all the hype it got I was expecting a lot more!

The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

When you think of slasher movies, the first things that pop into your head are movies like Halloween, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Friday the 13th and from there there have been many other slasher films. Candyman is a very well written as well as well directed horror film that doesn't really deserve to be SO underrated in the horror genre! Candyman is an interesting slasher himself as well and the reason why he exists is because people believe in him which makes this film lead to a very strong story with solid acting and engaging characters. Virginia Madsen as Helen Lyle was very good in this film. Her character was very engaged with the myth of the Candyman and she was a very likable character who wanted to know more about the legend of Candyman. Tony Todd takes this entire film as Candyman! He did a FANTASTIC job in this film and there were moments where I actually found his character very creepy and disturbing. The back story of Candyman is also very well written and I'm gonna talk about it without spoiling anything, but his back story really hooks you and actually almost makes you feel bad for this man. Now Candyman is not one of the greatest slashers of all time, but it's a horror film that does NOT deserve to be criminally underrated in the genre of horror! The acting in this film is mostly solid, the characters are good and the story is very clever and if you are a fan of horror movies and you want to check out some very underrated horror movies, Candyman is the movie for you! Candyman is a very well written and directed horror movie that deserves to be treated as a classic and should be seen by almost EVERY fan of horror! I'm gonna give Candyman an 8/10.

Here's an ambitious film who's first half, has so much going for it, but falls into stupidity and predicability in the other. It does have an intriguing serial killer/supernatural thriller theme, and our killer is in full view, but his contraption of death is stupid, bringing back moments of Jame's Wood's severed hand in Videodrome. Madsen is a really good actress, and her performance here is very good, as a budding criminal psychology student whose much older husband, is of course, a lecturer on the subject, and doing a much younger, hotter student. Even the stupid, predictable cliched ending, tries to desperately redeem it's faults. The candyman is a mythical figure in he projects, where all the brothers truly believe in his existence, where campfire stories have been told around the city. Madsen, poking her nose in many places it's not wanted, trespassing on the candyman's territory, the tall black dude (Tony Todd) retaliates, setting Madsen, up for his new murders, where of course, blame and evidence, weighs heavily on her, other than the mythical evil figure, which is basically the movie's second half. It's as if the movie short sheets itself, and suffers badly. This was so a disappointment, where the murders show over exploited and grisly and crime scenes. Though not a badly made film. Sad, as in Madsen's twist too, that is quite effective.

This one's a mixed bag, it has an interesting premise, a decent killer, a really good score by Philip Glass, some decent performances, many scenes are actually really effective, they are memorable and genuinely unnerving but none of that can save this movie from the fact that everything else is just flat, dull, uninteresting and unoriginal.Most of the characters are unlikeable and for most of the film they stay that way, I get that some characters are written to be unlikeable but I doubt that they had that in mind for the main characters. I really wanted to like this movie, its not badly directed or acted its just badly written, it could be better if they would have done some rewriting, they could have changed some dialog and make more sense out of some scenes, have a better lead, or maybe they could have established some of the rules for this Candyman character, why does he kill people specifically? why does he die at the end if hes a ghost? can he be hurt in real life? the whole thing is rather inconsistent, that and the bad dialog keeps me from liking this, it needs to be somewhat grounded, otherwise it feels like you are making stuff up as you go along.It has some aspects that I found interesting, but the bad overcomes the good.

CandymanBefore 1992, the only black male that would appear when you said Candyman was Sammy Davis Jr.But thanks to this horror movie, this hook-handed fella started showing up as well.A student studying urban legends, Helen (Virginia Madsen), stumbles across a character from inner-city folklore that emerges from mirrors and guts you with his hook if you say his name five times.Helen later learns that Candyman (Tony Todd) was a cultured African-American lynched in 1890 for loving a white woman - who looks like her. His ashes were scattered over the housing project he now haunts. Horror novelist Clive Barker's urban take on the Bloody Mary myth, this seminal slasher movie has a solid backstory of social importance. And while the scares are dated and the script stale, the villain is still iconic.However, the worst part of living inside of mirror is getting covered in puss.Yellow Lightvidiotreviews.blogspot.ca