Sean’s movie thoughts

Hell Fest needs more Tony Todd. He has a small part and it is good to see and hear him. It is still pretty good though. This is a movie about a bunch of friends going to an amusement park called Hell Fest. There is a killer in the park though. The performances are decent, the girls are maybe more likable or relatable than the guys. Or maybe the movie does a better job of spotlighting the girls and their personalities than it does with the guys. Bex Taylor-Klaus is the only performer I recognized other than Tony Todd. The park looks really good. Some of the mazes are very nice and it looks the park would be a fun place to go, if not for the murders. Of course the murders taking place in an horror park might seem like part of the act, which is what the killer wants. https://crookedmarquee.com/review-hell-fest/ This is a nice concise review This is worth at least a rental or worth borrowing from a library (or a friend).

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...