Based on a short story called 'The Forbidden' from Clive Barker's excellent Books of Blood collection, this is a stylish, violent, bloody and utterly superb horror movie.
Tony Todd plays the eponymous Candyman, a folk legend who appears to his victims if they dare utter his name into a mirror five times. Virginia Madsen is the plucky journalist eager to get to the bottom of the story.
The set pieces are gripping, and Tony Todd's performance is bone chilling.
It also contains some of the most quotable lines in a movie I've ever heard:
"Be My Victim."
"What's blood for, if not for shedding?"
A must see horror movie.
Tony Todd plays the eponymous Candyman, a folk legend who appears to his victims if they dare utter his name into a mirror five times. Virginia Madsen is the plucky journalist eager to get to the bottom of the story.
The set pieces are gripping, and Tony Todd's performance is bone chilling.
It also contains some of the most quotable lines in a movie I've ever heard:
"Be My Victim."
"What's blood for, if not for shedding?"
A must see horror movie.