Candyman

You don’t want to speak his name five times in front of a mirror...

  • Director

    Bernard Rose

  • With

    Virginia Madsen, Tony Todd, Xander Berkeley

  • USA 1992. 99min

  • Digital

  • Certificate

    15

A university student studying urban myths pursues the truth behind the legend of Candyman. The residents of a large housing project believe this 19th-century spirit is responsible for a number of recent unexplained deaths. Bernard Rose’s adaptation of Clive Barker’s story was notoriously cut by its studio. With it went elements of a score by Glass that some regarded as his finest. Nevertheless, what remains of both the film and music – a score for voice and pipe organ – is audacious and chilling.