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	Candyman -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
		The 'Candyman' (Todd) is a figure both of fear to the community and some veneration as a type of avenger.
		Candyman was an ex-slave wrongfully accused of assaulting a white woman.
		'Candyman' offers Helen the chance to leave behind her troubles and join him (it is suggested that the white, blonde-haired Helen reminds him of the woman for whose love he was murdered).
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/c/ca/candyman.htm (388 words)

	Candyman
		Candyman was skillfully adapted into an American Urban Legend, from a short story by Clive Barker which was originally about a superstition held by working class families in Liverpool.
		Candyman (1992) is an adaptation of a Clive Barker story that mixes scholarly study of urban legends with horror, murder, the supernatural, and insanity.
		Unfortunately, Helen can't see the obvious, and Candyman starts killing her friends and leaving her to take the blame, or maybe she is insane, and is doing the murders, or maybe Candyman is controlling her and forcing her to murder.
	www.scoopy.com /candyman.htm (1575 words)

	The Monstrous-Feminine in Candyman
		In 1992 Candyman was released; it is a moderately successful horror movie (now spawning, as reports have it, its second sequel) that has since received considerable critical attention for its complex representation of a variety of issues.
		In that case the Candyman cannot be interpreted as a representation of male fetishism, making himself the mother's phallus to deny her 'castration,' but as the manifestation of a woman's desire for power and subjectivity.
		Helen and the Candyman are seen in the classic pose of a perfect heterosexual romantic couple: the heroine barely conscious, her head tilted back, and the hero about to 'take'/kiss her (both bathed in a fantastically unreal blue light).
	webdoc.sub.gwdg.de /edoc/ia/eese/artic20/kuhn/kuhn.html (6321 words)

	Candyman 2: farewell to the flesh
		They show the death of Candyman by a mob in the 19th century but in the first movie its said that he was burnt alive.
		They don't arrest Annie for the murder...they don't actually believe that "Candyman" killed Paul but even though Annie was alone in the house with Paul when he was murdered it doesn't take Sherlock Holmes to figure that she had no weapon nor the strength it would take to murder her husband in such a way.
		Candyman also shows up when Annie confronts her mom about the lies and kills the old bag on the spot in front of Annie.
	www.badmovieplanet.com /inferno/archives/candyman2.html (1389 words)

	Movie Review - Candyman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
		Candyman is a genuinely scary horror film with an intriguing and believable plot that supplies a generous amount of suspense and terrifying thrills.
		Helen learns that the mythic Candyman had been an educated son of a slave who was put to death by having his hand cut off and throwing him to a massive swarm of bees as revenge for impregnating a wealthy young white woman.
		For a scene in which both Helen and Candyman are covered with bees, the queen bee scent was placed on the actors and then the bees were placed on the actors by pouring them out of a container.
	www.ahafilm.info /movies/moviereviews.phtml?fid=6919 (617 words)

	Candyman [1992] - Compare prices (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
		The legend of the Candyman is a potent one around the high-rise tenements of Chicago's Cabrini-Green housing complex, where the residents speak of a dark, ominous figure who appears when his victims say his name five times in front of a mirror, then mercilessly slashes them to death.
		Upon learning that the Candyman is rumoured to live in one of the vacant tenements, a University of Illinois researcher (Virginia Madsen) investigates a recent murder at Cabrini-Green.
		She learns that the Candyman (played by Tony Todd) is both unreal and chillingly real--a supernatural force of evil empowered by those who believe in his legend.
	www.priceclash.co.uk /candyman (273 words)

	OAFE - MM4: Candyman review
		One of the most requested figures for the Movie Maniacs line, Candyman comes the film of the same name, based on the Barker book "The Forbidden." Candyman is a "Bloody Mary"-esque urban myth, wherein reciting the name "Candyman" five times before a mirror will lead the enormous hook-handed man to appear and kill you.
		In the film, the Candyman is played by Tony Todd, the enormously charismatic man who makes the character as eerie and creepy as he is. The way he looks and speaks adds to the character, and this is translated over to the figure, which was featured in McToys' Movie Maniacs 4.
		Candyman comes in the standard Movie Maniacs package, with a nice detailed card on the other figures in the line, and also comes with the standard Movie Maniacs Marquee, which is different to that of the previous series, and not nearly as nice.
	www.oafe.net /shocka/mcmm4cm.php (722 words)

	(Randy's Page of Terror: Candyman)
		Across the stretch of time the legend of the Candyman would grow, and the tale became especially popular with children who would go on to say that if anyone should chant Candyman five times while looking at their reflection in a mirror, the hookman would come to claim them.
		Candyman: Graduate student Helen Lyle decides to write her thesis on an urban myth known as the Candyman.
		Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh: Annie Tarrant is a schoolteacher in New Orleans, who has been slowly piecing her life back together since the brutal death of her father.
	thanos.fanspace.com /candyman.html (1696 words)

	CANDYMAN - **1/2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)*
		Candyman is the rare horror movie that has everything--it's intelligent, stylish, sophisticated, and (most importantly) genuinely frightening.
		The story which begins to draw the most attention is that of the Candyman, a ghost with a hook for a hand who, legend has it, "appears behind you breathing down your neck" when you stand in front of a mirror and say his name five times.
		On the one hand, I was afraid that at any minute they'd be attacked not just by the mythical Candyman, but by the residents of the project. On the other hand, I felt ashamed to be instantly worried for the two rich women bumbling around in the dank hallways of a bad neighborhood.
	www.geocities.com /krylonman/film_reviews/candyman.html (586 words)

	Movie Review - Candyman 3: Day of the Dead - Hollywood Bitchslap (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
		The first "Candyman" was a visual feast, a creepy exercise in horror made great by the direction of Bernard Rose.
		Donna D'Errico is Caroline, the great-great-granddaughter of the original Candyman (Tony Todd), a fl artist tortured to death generations ago after his affair with a white woman was uncovered.
		Candyman's story is one of urban legend, but Caroline wants to change all of that by showing his artwork at Miguel's (Mark Rorir-Rios) gallery.
	www.hollywoodbitchslap.com /review.php?movie=3504&reviewer=325&printer=1 (556 words)

	FBI - Operation Candyman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
		In a closed community you must be invited in by a member of the group and the identity of the group cannot be identified by non-members searching the Internet.
		In open communities, such as "Candyman," any person searching the Internet can conduct a search by title or category, locate the group, and may be granted membership by the monitor of the group.
		Through the issuance of a court order to Yahoo!, FBI Houston concentrating on the Candyman Egroup, identified 7,000 unique E-mail addresses with 2,400 of the addresses outside of United States and 4,600 located domestically.
	www.fbi.gov /pressrel/candyman/candymanhome.htm (362 words)

	FOREVER HORROR - Movie Reviews - Candyman Films
		The Candyman makes his chilling appearance and begins to slowly takeover Helen's world, forcing everyone to think she's insane, and unknowingly to her, she slowly is.
		Eventually, he appears, and the Candyman stalks her, begins to murder the people in her life, and even her own family is not safe from the terror of the Candyman.
		As the Candyman slashes his way closer to her, Annie has to find out who the Candyman is, and how to stop him before it's too late.
	www.michalak.org /fh/candyman.html (1322 words)

	The Music of Candyman by Philip Glass @ Cinemusic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
		CANDYMAN 2 as a film really couldn't live up to the original, and unsuccessfully moved the plot to New Orleans, injected an annoying cajun D.J. voice over and tried too hard to flesh (no pun intended) the backstory of Candyman, a typical sequel technique, when no real story was left to be told.
		The boy choir is reprised to great effect in "The Demise of Candyman", as Glass dares the viewer to feel sorror for the pitiful Candyman.
		While the unique sound of CANDYMAN can be attributed to Philip Glass' unmistakeable style, whether or not the listener is going to enjoy this disc is going to live or die on whether or not they can stomach the material and it's unwavering repetition.
	www.cinemusic.net /reviews/2001/candyman.html (806 words)

	Candyman III: Day of the Dead
		The paintings are all of her great-great grandfather and his lover, and Miguel uses the Candyman angle to promote them.
		Candyman always kills people in the same manner, with his hook, and you know who is going to die as soon as you see them.
		She was also alone with Craft's partner when Candyman killed him and Craft was inside Caroline's building, presumably within sight of other police officers.
	www.badmovieplanet.com /inferno/archives/candyman3.html (2003 words)

	Lost Souls: Clive Barker -- Movies -- Candyman Farewell To The Flesh
		In order to reassure her kids that Candyman is only a legend, she repeats his name five times into a mirror--the manner, according to legend, by which he can be summoned.
		From Honore Thibideaux (Matt Clark), an expert on local history, and her own mother, Octavia (Veronica Cartwright), Annie learns that Candyman is the spirit of a slave who was murdered for conducting a forbidden affair with a white woman; that woman was Annie's great-grandmother.
		Candyman slaughters Thibideaux, Ethan, and Octavia, and Annie goes to her family's ancestral home in the midst of a torrential storm to seek the mirror that contains Candyman's spirit.
	www.clivebarker.com /html/visions/bib/movie/candyman2 (473 words)

	Candyman 2 - Farewell to the Flesh @ Filmbug
		Candyman 2 - Farewell to the Flesh @ Filmbug
		The villain in "Candyman" makes me want to laugh because he is so NOT scary...if you want a good laugh, watch the "Candyman" series, but if you want to be scared, you would even do better to watch "Ren and Stimpy".
		But I had no idea who Candyman was until I rented a DVD called "Bogey Men" and it had a Candyman on there top horror movie icons of all time.
	www.filmbug.com /asin/B00005K3NZ (1104 words)

	Amazon.com: Candyman (1992): DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
		The slasher genre was pretty much tapped out by the early 90s when "Candyman" came along, and despite what would happen to the series later on (two abysmal sequels), it stands as one of the most original and terrifying horror films of the 90s.
		From the semi-gothic music score to the Candyman's deep and raspy voice, the viewer is on their toes from the very beginning.
		"Candyman" is by no means a masterpiece, but it is one of the better horror films to come along in quite some time, and it could never simply be classified as a slaher movie.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0767817656?v=glance (2534 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Candyman [1992]: DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
		There the residents are genuinely terrified of Candyman (Tony Todd), a legendary figure with a hook for a hand.
		Candyman scares through it's brilliant and chilling atmosphere which is set up from the word go.
		After hearing about the candyman, back to when i was 10, it was always made out to be scary as hell, i suppose that's because it was made in 1992.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00004TLAT (992 words)

	Candyman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
		Tony Todd is electrifying as the slave returned to life as a serial killer and the score by noted composer Philip Glass is evocative and helps to creates an atmosphere of fear and dread.
		Followed by a very gory and horrorific sequel, Candyman 2: Farewell to the Flesh and a very less than spectacular Candyman 3: Day of the Dead.
		Candyman 2: Farewell to the Flesh, Hellraiser, Lord of Illusions, Transmutations.
	home.att.net /~r.s.swartz/candy.html (181 words)

	The Annotated "Candyman"
		"Candyman" was debuted live on April 3, 1970, at the Field House, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio.
		Deadlit topic number 85 on the WELL is about "Candyman," and contains several possible interpretations as to the identity of the protagonist.
		I was reading the lyrics to Candyman when the phrase "Roll those laughing bones" caught my attention...I remembered having read somewhere that dice used to be made out of bone.
	arts.ucsc.edu /GDead/AGDL/candy.html (604 words)

	The DVD Journal \| Quick Reviews: Candyman: Special Edition
		Naturally, Helen learns that Candyman is not, in fact, an urban legend, but rather a very real and murderous presence (played by Tony Todd), and one who quickly singles her out for special attention.
		Although Candyman is based on a story by popular horror writer Clive Barker, the movie's writer-director Bernard Rose enthusiastically expands the original material, crafting a complex, if occasionally scattered, backstory, and he wonderfully capitalizes on the atypical urban environment for an unusually earnest series of scares.
		Candyman is certainly far from flawless, and it's frequently distracted by its own false clues or by fragments of meaningless formula left behind from less interesting films (Candyman strikes when someone says his name five times into a mirror, for no other reason, it appears, than just because…).
	www.dvdjournal.com /quickreviews/c/candyman.q.shtml (474 words)

	Candyman 2 - Farewell to the Flesh on DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
		But some of it is still pretty routine: schoolteacher Annie takes a long time to connect her family's plantation-owning past and her own artistic talent with the legend, and is far too ready to say the Candyman's name five times in a mirror to debunk her pupils' fears.
		Tony Todd, who returns as the Candyman, gives a quiet dignity and sadness to the monstrous specter with a hook for a hand.
		His life was torn from him and he is mad for vengeance, yet he has an artistic temperament and loved Annie's kinswoman Caroline.
	www.crimsonbird.com /cgi-bin/a.cgi?j=B00005K3NZ (236 words)

	CNN.com - FBI news release on Operation Candyman - March 18, 2002
		Individuals identified as subjects in "Operation Candyman" include Little League coaches, a teacher's aide, a guidance counselor, school bus driver, foster care parent and professionals in the medical, educational, military and law enforcement fields.
		In addition to the Candyman Egroup, the FBI has initiated investigations into other Egroups that facilitated the distribution, production and exchange of child pornography.
		It is estimated there were over 7,000 members of the Candyman Egroup, with some 2,400 residing in foreign countries.
	archives.cnn.com /2002/US/03/18/operation.candyman.release (524 words)

	Candyman
		The ghoulish but seductive figure of Candyman - a variation of sorts on the legend of "Bloody Mary," who can be summoned by calling his name five times while looking into a mirror - arises out of the context of racial discrimination and bigotry in the United States.
		A well educated descendant of his slave ancestors, "Candyman" was tortured to death by irrational zealots for daring to fall in love with a white woman during the time of the Civil War.
		With such a backstory, it is possible to see Candyman in a more sympathetic light than, say, Freddy Kruger or Michael Myers, though he remains a formidably frightening presence.
	www.dvdmaniacs.net /Reviews/A-D/candyman.html (637 words)

	UHM - Candyman 4
		Set in New England in an all-girls college where a professor there is a descendant of Candyman, yet she doesn't know who or what he is.
		Actor Tony Todd recently spoke with Fango about his upcoming projects, where he revealed how the new Candyman movie is rumored to be a versus film.
		He also explains how it will have nothing to do with the previous Candyman film, which even he was disappointed with...
	www.upcominghorrormovies.com /movies/candyman4.php (550 words)

	Candyman Movie
		First of all, "Candyman" easily blows away all of the Freddie, Jason and Michael Myers trash that filled cinemas in the 80's and 90's.
		The character of Helen is wonderfully believable, and the introduction of the Candyman legend is handled with just enough veracity to make you dread the (inevitable) invocation of something terrible.
		The back-story behind the Candyman and how he came to be is really original as well.
	www.movie-pages.com /movie/candyman/0767817656 (1043 words)

	Candyman
		As conceived by Barker, Candyman is an urban spin-off of "The Hook," a rural horror story told around campfires (Bill Murray used it to scare campers in Meatballs, and Stephen King refers to it often in his work on horror Danse Macabre).
		Candyman, it turns out, is a vengeful patriarchal god who wants what was taken from him in life (hence his preoccupation with Helen) and wants to eliminate all doubters so that his "congregation" of followers won't reject him (hence his vicious treatment of Helen).
		Candyman murders people and leaves Helen to take the blame, a cause she helps by unfailingly picking up the murder instrument every time, so that the police can burst in and catch her with (A) a bloody corpse and (B) a bloody knife.
	www.angelfire.com /movies/oc/candyman.html (1062 words)

	Philip Glass - The Music of Candyman
		Rose, a young director had an intriguing film, "Paperhouse" to his credit and the Candyman story, (written by Clive Barker), was a tale of contemporary myth and horror that possessed a truly frightening psychological plot.
		Since the release of the Candyman films there has been interest from the fans for a soundtrack album and, indeed there have been a number of bootlegs and cover versions offered for sale on the internet and at record fairs.
		The recordings found on this CD are the original score recordings for the films "Candyman" and the sequel, "Candyman II: Farewell to the Flesh".
	www.glasspages.org /candyman.html (467 words)

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