As a teenager I was very much into my horror films - I loved scaring myself for some reason... Now that I'm older I am very wary at watching the newer type of horror films as they tend to show too much gore and have completely pointless storylines. However I am partial to watch the odd classic every now and again and I found myself watching Candyman last night while doing the household ironing. Candyman was released in 1992 when I was 5 years old - I didn't actually end up watching it for the first time until I was about 14, but I remember seeing this on a neighbours VHS shelf for years and even though I didnt know at that young age what the film was actually ...  Read the complete review

I saw this film whe I was about 14 and I remember it as one of the most scariest films ive seen since. Synopsis: Mature student Helen Lyle (Virginia masden) is a student of legend and folklure, she studies what makes people live in fear of legends. After an apparent murder of a young girl in a toilet on a poor project development. After looking into it, she is told be the girls best friend that the girl had said the word Candyman five times into a mirror, he appear beind you with a meat hook for a hand and kills you. As Helen investigates this story further she falls into a world where imagination and relaity blur as she fights to save her own sanity and ...  Read the complete review

Helen Lyle and her best friend Bernadette are mature university students, who are studying Urban legends for their thesis. The Candyman legend in particular has caught their attention, as so many people in the area have a tale to tell and are afraid of him. Since the legend is situated around a deprived area of Chicago, the two friends believe that the people use the legend as a reason for their situation. Curiosity gets the bet of the friends especially Helen, and they visit Cabrini Green where a series of unsolved murders has taken place. The locals believe the deaths are the result of the Candyman, who was murdered on the estate many years ago. Helen ...  Read the complete review

A horror movie at once technically brilliant and thematically quite troubling. With a stunning Philip Glass score and superbly controlled direction from Bernard Rose, it's the story of a researcher into urban myth who gradually discovers the legend of the Candyman, a hook-handed spirit who comes to slaughter when his name is called three times in succession in front of a mirror. The effects and soundtrack, coupled with some genuinely great shock moments, and sense of an unfolding and unstoppable nightmare, make the film very scary indeed. Like a lot of Clive Barker material (adapted here from a short story 'The Forbidden'), it has a weird and ...  Read the complete review

Anyone who has read a few of my reviews will see that I like horror movies, which is something of a bane because the horror genre is packed with movies which are simply derivative at best or plain trash at worst, far more so than any other genre of movie. Most of the criticisms levelled at such movies by those who do not like them is that they are simply not very scary and for the most part I would have to agree with them. Gone are the days when a cinema-goers would walk into a theatre and scream at something like Bela Lugosi’s Frankenstein, or Max Shrek’s vampire. As it happens today, you can see far more horrific events simply by turning on the news than ...  Read the complete review