Re-watching Candyman
Candyman was based on or losely inspired by a story by Clive Barker. I have never read the story but I have heard there are some significance differences. There is a new edition on Blu-ray, so this seems a good time to re-watch it. Also Jordan Peele has announced that he is working on a sequel. Virginia Madsen stars as a graduate student named Helen studying urban legends and she hears the tale of Candyman. He was the son of a former slave and an artist but he was killed after he fathered a child with a white woman. Now the legend is if you look in a mirror and say his name 5 times, he will appear and attack you. He seems to haunt the Cabrini Green Housing project in Chicago. This was a real place (I think it was torn down) and it might have been among the most infamous housing projects in America. At times it appears that Candyman is a product of Helen’s imagination but some things are happening that seem to contradict that. Tony Todd is really good as the Candyman. He was a go...