Why Candyman is one of the best horror films of the 90s

[MrMidwest]

Posted: 6/1/12 at 2:40pm

http://www.filmfreakcentral.net/ffc/2012/05/candyman.html

[strummergirl]

Posted: 6/1/12 at 3:06pm

I just handed in a paper on this film, my very last college paper. The visuals and Philip Glass score are really something along with the leading performances by Tony Todd and Virginia Madsen but the script and adaptation by Bernard Rose is second to none. Manages to give a commentary about horror stories and race simultaneously without being a morality tale.

[tazber]

Posted: 6/2/12 at 9:05am

Thanks for the link MrMidwest.

And congrats on your pending graduation strummer!

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 6/3/12 at 5:58am

Where has Bernard Rose been? (OK after typing that I looked up his Wiki and he's done several movies I had never heard of or seen--and I'm not sure I want to...) When I was a teen, getting into horror movies partly to try to desensitize myself, I thought Candyman was amazing--I still do. Afterwards I rented all his movies--Chicago Joe and the Showgirl had some great sequences in a bad script, and Immortal Beloved was already a favorite of my older brother and his friend's. I liked his take on Anna Karenina more than most--it only has a few really cinematic moments, but he does a good job with an unfilmable novel. But the true gem is Paperhouse.

What a ****ing amazing movie--like an adult version of Labyrinth--just so many images and themes that are stuck in my head. It really deserves the Criterion treatment. For anyone who hasn't seen it, and it advertised itself sorta as a family film (judging by the VHS box) it deals with nightmares and the blurs between reality even better than Nightmare on Elm Street, even if not as blatantly horrific.

Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpVuXWwWlDY