i love the horror genre . i grow up love film that scar the hell out of me . candyman be excellent because it be a film that i genuinely find very twisted and disturb when i saw it at the tender age of 15. check this out and it be a blessed condition believe me . to be whisper about in street corner . to live in other people dream . but not to have to be . do you understand . how cool be that quote . i be go to throw in a few quote in this review because the writing of this film be really and really cool . the candyman be not an inarticulate jason or michael myers . he have the vocabulary of a homicidal drama professor who like richard burton . candyman be the think person horror film . it explore the notion of the urban myth . the candyman exist because people tell the story about him . they spread the myth make him flesh . unfortunately for researcher helen lyle and she doesn not know any of this . she investigate the urban myth of the candyman and seek to debunk it and her fate become seal . hey . write a paper isn not worth be burn alive . the film rest on the central idea that fiction can suddenly become real life if enough people believe in the myth . boogey men can therefore be create if enough people believe in monster . this theme be familiar to the director bernard rise . i recommend another one of his film call paperhouse . this be about the imagination of a little girl that start to manifest in reality . it be also quite good although not a scary . the original story of how the candyman be make be horrific and just deepen the mystery . this be not a film like the friday the 13th series . this be far more cerebral and relies much more on it concept . the candyman be the whisper in the classroom that will exist forever . when helen set out to debunk the candyman and this be essentially like try to murder him . your disbelief destroy the faith of my congregation . without them and i be nothing . debunk the candyman will destroy his immortality . the only way the candyman can exist be through the shedding of innocent blood so that the story of him can continue to proliferate . so when helen decide that the candyman be actually a local drug dealer hiding behind the candyman identity . she feel that she have solve the mystery of the mysterious murder that the candyman have commit . what helen do not know be that the candyman be a kind of a physical manifestation of the jungian collective unconscious . the candyman take his revenge and he feel oblige to come and after all she have cause much doubt about his actual existence . the candyman tear away helen day to day reality . drive her into what other people think be her own insanity . now she know the truth of the candyman . the conversation between helen and the candyman be haunt . what be also interesting be that sadism and masochism be major feature in clive barker work . the pain i assure you and will be exquisite . s and m tendency . this be one dark and twisted piece of celluloid . the acting be also really good from both actor . the final scene be horrific a helen try to rescue a baby in a blazing woodpile and be burnt alive . helen herself then become part of the legend and therefore come back a another physical manifestation of legend . however and remember this be not helen ghost but a construction of helen through the belief of those who believe this mysterious urban legend . candyman say it best . your death will be a tale to frighten child . to make lover cling closer in their rapture . come with me and be immortal . genius . this film also have a great soundtrack and a very haunting score . candyman be a very interesting film that originate from the absolutely twisted mind of clive barker . this be brilliant and well write horror . positive . by the way avoid the sequel . i saw number 2 and it just ruin the whole thing . think of this a the one and only .