Candyman [Blu-ray] [1992] [UK Import]

Most horror movies are just incredibly stupid, boring, gross to be gross or a combination of those. Candyman, and its sequel to bit lesser extent, defy those tired tropes. Candyman is a dread inducing gothic horror film based off a short story "The Forbidden" by Clive Barker. Long, convoluted story short Helen Lyle is a graduate student in Chicago researching Urban Legends. She summons the Candyman who as mean spirited as he can be is really a tragic figure. An artist Daniel Robitaille was the son of a slave on a New Orleans plantation in the 1890’s. A wealthy landowner chose him to paint a portrait of his daughter, Caroline Sullivan. The two fell in forbidden love and Caroline got pregnant. Her father was furious and chased Daniel out of town along with a lynch mob. The mob caught Daniel and tortured him by cutting off his right hand with a saw blade. After they removed his hand they poured honey over his body from a nearby hive. As the sequel expands on this Caroline shows Daniel his reflection in her mirror as he lay dying. His soul becomes trapped inside the mirror. If you tie the two movies together Daniel is basically a very lonely, very angry restless spirit who does not want to be forgotten. He wants to be reunited with the woman and child he loved and was robbed of. His child, Isabelle was raised with no knowledge of his existence. If you pay close attention to the final act of Candyman you realize that Daniel believes Helen to be the reincarnation of Caroline and he steals a baby in the hopes of killing all three to join him in the after life. This is truly a haunting film. The sequel is just different enough and I applaud the sequel for expanding on the mythos. They DID make a third direct to DVD turd in like 1999 and...oh god. just don't watch it. Tony Todd needs to pay his bills I suppose but otherwise it is a lot cheap non scares and an annoying, big boobed playmate screaming throughout the movie. It was really a slap in the face to a series that capped it off perfectly at the end of the first sequel.

The director of Immortal Beloved brings to the screen the adaptation of Clive Barker's short story which will go down in history as the best horror movie ever made.Bernard Rose's adaptation of Clive Barker's chilling novella has got be acknowledged as the greatest adaptation by a director of materials in the written form, in actual fact, dramatically improving on Barker's work.The story begins with two anthropology post graduate students conducting a research on urban legends with primary focus on the legend of the Candyman, and disbelieving in the existence of the paranormal, and under the misconception that the Candyman legend is merely urban folklore, the two dare one another to utter his name three times before a mirror - and while her friend chickened out after saying his name twice, the heroine of the movie utters the name a final time, thereby, summoning forth Candyman who turns her life upside down in an attempt to induce her friends to abandon her and make her realize that he is the only one she has left - with the motive of winning her love as he was a black man who fell in love with a white women resembling our heroine.This movie constitutes the finest effort by Hollywood at producing a sophisticated horror movie that keeps you wondering whether the things transpiring on screen are the deranged delusions of a person on the brink of mental illness or actual incidents occurring in real life. A fine work du art.

Candyman, Candyman, Candyman, Candyman, C-utter his name once more and the softly very melancholy Tony Todd will scoop you up from groin to forehead And tear you in two with his meat clever imbedded into his bloody stuff of a right hand-or not! His performance is very theatrical, serious, straight, tear worthy, scary, shimmering in bloodied glory of a self reframed perfect performance.Candyman is a stimulus to the world of racism, the man who was sordidly wronged, to now find love in the must unsuspecting places, and tortured unquestionably for that love. His posture his ways, is faultless, those of an educated supremacy, sets out to continue an art, long gone with his brush hand. Now an artist of the cavalier of death, the merchant of prolonged love, drenched in a misty fog, smeared in rosy red salvation. The profusion and raw sterility of his morbidly hollowed, dank, dark, darkness, the darkness of all unknown places: to go on with his lamented raged mind, a mind of a lover, an artist, of as revenge seeker.

Candyman is one that deserves to be ranked right up there with the horror classics. I honestly think that this movie is one of the most underrated films ever. Being a horror fan, I felt compelled to watch Candyman. I thought it would be terrible but I have never been more wrong about a movie. It goes above and beyond your regular slasher film. Candyman throws in some psychological twists that you will be sure to appreciate. Definitely check this out, whether you're a slasher fan or not! And don't even get me started on the score- it is absolutely amazing! Check this out - you won't regret it!

Im not giving this a bad review because in my opinion this is a movie ive been waiting and wanting to be on bluray for a very long time.yes this movie an import but played on my xbox one just fine i havent watched it all the way thru but it worked...in the description says it plays all regions so you shouldnt have a problem..i was skeptical too but after trying it im fine now.the pics show what it looks like