Candyman (DVD) Reviews

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 ...  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 ...  Read the complete review

This is one of the most scariest films you'll ever see. Dare you say his name five times to a mirror? or say the name Helen five times to a mirror - which one will you choose? Helen Lyle is a student who studies myths and legends and is married to one of the university's professors Trevor. One day she discovers the murder ...  Read the complete review

The cover on the DVD alone has me cringing with fear it is such a graphic image and one that I really do not like looking at, unfortunately the other half did not show me the case before he put this on to watch a few nights ago, if he had I would have given it a miss and I wish I had now. The lead character is Helen Lyle who ...  Read the complete review

I would have to say that this is one of the better horror films to come out of the 90's however having watched it again recently I do seem to remember it being a lot more scary when I first wathed it, then again I was a lot younger then and less mature in my viewing habits. Virginia Madsen stars as Helen Lyle a mature student ...  Read the complete review

Candyman was released in 1992 and I found it to be a more grown up horror film than others out there at the moment. What I mean by that is that we are all used to horror movies where young girls turn on their attackers at the end after being stalked the whole film. Whereas with Candyman it features a mature woman stalking the murderer ...  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 ...  Read the complete review

When I first watch this movie, I was all alone my folks had gone on holiday. It was about 11:45pm when I was flicking though the sky channels, and I noticed that Candyman was coming on at 12:15. So I went and got a block of chocolate, and a class of cranberry juice from the fridge to sit down and watch the movie. That night I ...  Read the complete review

Clive Barker has always had a legion of fans ready to blow his trumpet (oo-er!) after the Pinhead films but for my money CandyMan blows away any of the other films he has had his hands in. Its based around a short story Barker wrote about how local 'urban legends' could somehow be made true by the people who believe in them. ...  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 ...  Read the complete review

Cliver Barker gave us some dazzling stories at the beginning of his career, and though 'The Forbidden' was not one of his best, it formed the basis of first-rate horror movie. A tale of urban myth and violence, the film centers on a folklore student's investigation into the local bogeyman, the 'Candyman', ...  Read the complete review

This film came out in 1992 and a sequel was made to this as well, which was quite similar. The story is about the main character called Helen. She is a researcher into urban myths and legends. The latest one she is working on is the Candyman legend. As legend goes if you say his name 5 times while looking in the mirror then he ...  Read the complete review

Want a movie to watch on halloween? if you want to watch a good horror movie that is not predicatble, and is brilliantly shot, you can't do better than the Candyman. The basic plot of the film is that a women who is researching urban legends, is interviewing people, about the candyman, a man who has a hook on one hand as is ...  Read the complete review

This film, together with a couple of the Nightmare on Elm Street and The Exorcist, is my favourite Horror flick of all time. It mixes a great soundtrack with a superb story about an urban myth with some excellent scenes that first make you jump out your seats and then make you cringe. You never really know what is going to ...  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 ...  Read the complete review

I think it’s common practice to produce 1000 terrible, predictable horror films and then one or two great ones. Then to produce 12 crap sequels for those 2 great films. Candyman is one of the few good’uns Based on a Clive Barker story, who wrote Hellraiser, this is about a mythical, urban legend. When you say his name ...  Read the complete review