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Genres:
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Drama /
Horror /
Mystery /
Thriller
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Director:
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Bernard Rose
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Actors:
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Kasi Lemmons,
Eric Edwards,
Ria Pavia,
Carolyn Lowery,
DeJuan Guy,
Marianna Elliott,
Mark Daniels,
Lisa Ann Poggi,
Adam Philipson,
Barbara Alston,
Virginia Madsen,
Tony Todd,
Xander Berkeley,
Vanessa Williams,
Ted Raimi
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Duration:
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95 min.
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Rating:
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(6.5/10)138
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Plot Summary:
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Helen Lyle (Virginia Madsen) is writing a journal on urban legends when she hears about the Candyman (Tony Todd), who was once an ex-scullion-turned-artist prestige Daniel Robitaille, who had an affair his patron's daughter. Robitaille's without hesitating swiftly was sawn off, he was covered in honey, and stung to death by bees. If anyone says the high sign succinctly "Candyman" five times in a echo, he'll evident behind that in the flesh, a bloody filch as a replacement in regard to his clutches, and kill him. A series of unsolved murders is taking place in the Cabrini Green projects and He... len is using this to help with her archives. The residents say the Candyman is to blame, but Helen doesn't believe it. Until she meets the houseman with a hook to go to a close by. Contemporarily, he's begun to kill her friends and no one believes her. Can Helen exonerate her label and bring to a stop the Canydman from arduous anyone else?
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Candyman 3
Don't make the same mistake I did, and think this is the original Candyman. It isn't, this is Candyman 3! Strangely, Candyman (1) is only due for release on DVD in February 05. My advise is, wait for it to be available, as this one is not worth staying up for. The acting is appalling and the plot far too predictable. Not a patch on the original and only one worth watching.
Candyman
Superior slasher very, very loosely based on Clive Barker's story 'The Forbidden'. Helen (Madsen), a graduate student researching urban legends, comes across the disturbing tale of the Candyman, a hook-wielding maniac who will appear and 'cut you in two' if his name is chanted five times in front of a mirror.
Helen traces this mythological figure to the run-down housing projects of Chicago where a woman's grisly murder has been attributed to the Candyman. Helen's curiosity and academic scepticism compels her to invoke him herself, and, by a twist of fate, she becomes the chief suspect in the murders that follow.
Candyman is atmospheric and visually stimulating enough to satisfy gore-hounds as well as being an intelligent social commentary. Sc...
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