{"id":18114,"date":"2025-11-04T20:00:47","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T01:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=18114"},"modified":"2025-11-02T21:33:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T02:33:12","slug":"candyman-1992-bernard-rose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/18114","title":{"rendered":"Candyman (1992, Bernard Rose)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Virginia &#8220;V-Mad&#8221; Madsen (<em>Highlander II: The Quickening<\/em>) is researching urban legends with friend Kasi Lemmons (<em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/14504\">Vampire&#8217;s Kiss<\/a><\/em>), who almost sinks the movie as the rational best friend trying to hold back V-Mad from her suicidal quest.  Rose and his Roeg-ian DP get some good light and imagery, but between the Philip Glass score and Tony Todd&#8217;s voice, the soundtrack is the star.  Movie seems to get going when she&#8217;s beaten up in the bathrooms by a fake Candyman, but soon afterwards she awakens in Vanessa Williams&#8217;s apartment with a dead dog, a missing baby, and a knife in her hand, she&#8217;s on her way towards becoming an urban legend herself, starting with her faithless husband Trevor (a cop in <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/18016\">The Guardian<\/a><\/em>).  Much is made of this movie&#8217;s themes of racial violence and gentrification, but little is said about how the backstory murder scene has Ted Raimi in it.<\/p>\n<p><em>Fake Candyman:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image25\/candy1.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p><em>Real Candyman:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image25\/candy2.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p><em>It&#8217;s All For You, Damien:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image25\/candy3.jpeg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virginia &#8220;V-Mad&#8221; Madsen (Highlander II: The Quickening) is researching urban legends with friend Kasi Lemmons (Vampire&#8217;s Kiss), who almost sinks the movie as the rational best friend trying to hold back V-Mad from her suicidal quest. Rose and his Roeg-ian DP get some good light and imagery, but between the Philip Glass score and Tony [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[451,3454,60,54,651,3455],"class_list":["post-18114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1990s","tag-bernard-rose","tag-clive-barker","tag-horror","tag-mirrors","tag-urban-legend"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18114"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18124,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18114\/revisions\/18124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}