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# Movie Review: Candyman (1992)
- URL: https://there-might-be-cupcakes-podcast.ghost.io/movie-review-candyman-1992/
- Published: 2021-09-05T21:26:00.000Z
- Updated: 2025-02-03T15:55:16.000Z
- Author: Carla Pettigrew
- Tags: Newsletter, #Migrated-1738597973835, #Import 2025-02-03 15:53

Spoilers included. [Link to review on Letterboxd](https://letterboxd.com/claradox/film/candyman/): five stars.

Amazing transition from the terror in the black Cabrini Green’s mother’s voice about Candyman to the rich white man’s laughter at an expensive dinner. Brilliant and haunting choice.

Helen is also dressed in blue, like [traditional depictions of the Virgin Mary](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marian%5Fart%5Fin%5Fthe%5FCatholic%5FChurch). So is the baby’s mother, Anne-Marie.

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/6d/f5/6df583d7-3da2-455c-b104-e0c5ab8c796a/content/images/2025/02/https-3a-2f-2fsubstack-post-media-s3-amazonaws-com-2fpublic-2fimages-2f7d89f9e7-5775-432b-9c9e-434974aa032d_696x1024-jpeg.jpg)

Madonna del Granduca, Raphael, painted in 1505

[Candyman at Rotten Tomatoes](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/candyman)

Books by the expert on urban legends, Jan Harold Brunvand (whose work was a source for the screenwriter, Bernard Rose):

[The Vanishing Hitchhiker: American Urban Legends and Their Meanings](https://bookshop.org/a/6560/9780393951691)

[Encylopedia of Urban Legends](https://bookshop.org/a/6560/9780393323580)

[American Folklore: An Encyclopedia](https://bookshop.org/a/6560/9780815333500)

[The Baby Train: And Other Lusty Urban Legends](https://bookshop.org/a/6560/9780393312089)

[Curses! Broiled Again!](https://bookshop.org/a/6560/9780393307115)

[The Mexican Pet: More New Urban Legends and Some Old Favorites](https://bookshop.org/a/6560/9780393305425)

The original source is Clive Barker’s short story “The Forbidden”, which is included in volume five of his Books of Blood, published as [In the Flesh](https://amzn.to/2YFZpLZ) in the United States.

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/6d/f5/6df583d7-3da2-455c-b104-e0c5ab8c796a/content/images/2025/02/https-3a-2f-2fsubstack-post-media-s3-amazonaws-com-2fpublic-2fimages-2fc24d5fbf-cc26-4f7d-b508-e17be67a96e0_474x266-jpeg.jpg)

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/6d/f5/6df583d7-3da2-455c-b104-e0c5ab8c796a/content/images/2025/02/https-3a-2f-2fsubstack-post-media-s3-amazonaws-com-2fpublic-2fimages-2fcf04b607-e9df-43cb-b28a-cb23b7dbd43d_474x315-jpeg.jpg)

Movie series:

[Candyman (1992)](https://amzn.to/3jUQlev)

[Candyman 2: Farewell to the Flesh (1995)](https://amzn.to/3jUzLez)

[Candyman 3: Day of the Dead (1999)](https://amzn.to/3jUqKSR)

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