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Candyman (1992 film)
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<p><i>Candyman</i> is a 1992 American <a href="/facts/Supernatural_horror_film/8LafM3yF">supernatural horror film</a> written and directed by <a href="/facts/Bernard_Rose_(director)/6DDnjwje">Bernard Rose</a> and starring <a href="/facts/Virginia_Madsen/VFcPPffN">Virginia Madsen</a>, <a href="/facts/Tony_Todd/eIWovDBe">Tony Todd</a>, <a href="/facts/Xander_Berkeley/tLPPR1fd">Xander Berkeley</a>, <a href="/facts/Kasi_Lemmons/5mbACvY3">Kasi Lemmons</a>, and <a href="/facts/Vanessa_Estelle_Williams/wIApsQ3J">Vanessa E. Williams</a>. Based on <a href="/facts/Clive_Barker/bVNxtU56">Clive Barker</a>'s short story "<a href="/facts/Books_of_Blood/2b5Gxf8l">The Forbidden</a>", the film follows a Chicago graduate student completing a thesis on <a href="/facts/Urban_legend/zBubH9kG">urban legends</a> and <a href="/facts/Folklore/hcBN8qcd">folklore</a>, which leads her to the legend of the "<a href="/facts/Candyman_(character)/WMrs3KJR">Candyman</a>", the hook-handed ghost of an <a href="/facts/African-American/pTgcAdo8">African-American</a> artist and son of a slave who was murdered in the late 19th century for his relationship with the daughter of a wealthy white man, who now appears whenever his name is chanted 5 times in front of the mirror. </p><p>The film came to fruition after a chance meeting between Rose and Barker who later completed his own film adaptation of <i><a href="/facts/Nightbreed/2jbT6RoQ">Nightbreed</a></i> (1990). Rose expressed interest in Barker's story "The Forbidden", and Barker agreed to license the rights. Where Barker's story revolved around the themes of the <a href="/facts/Social_class_in_the_United_Kingdom/EsCrjfjJ">British class system</a> in contemporary <a href="/facts/Liverpool/kTqATlxg">Liverpool</a>, Rose chose to refit the story to <a href="/facts/Cabrini%25E2%2580%2593Green_Homes/bDqdVexA">Cabrini-Green</a>'s public housing development in <a href="/facts/Chicago/yPMokrXH">Chicago</a> and instead focus on the themes of <a href="/facts/Race_(human_categorization)/cDPnrdXn">race</a> and social class in the inner-city United States. </p><p><i>Candyman</i> premiered at the <a href="/facts/1992_Toronto_International_Film_Festival/r7oEVjYI">1992 Toronto International Film Festival</a>, and was theatrically released on October 16, 1992, by <a href="/facts/TriStar_Pictures/E8xBMNW1">TriStar Pictures</a> and <a href="/facts/PolyGram_Filmed_Entertainment/vwYyXjmN">PolyGram Filmed Entertainment</a>. It received generally positive reviews and grossed over $25 million in the US, where it was also regarded in some critical circles as a contemporary classic of horror cinema. It was followed by three sequels: <i><a href="/facts/Candyman%3a_Farewell_to_the_Flesh/8a2VzPAq">Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh</a></i> (1995), <i><a href="/facts/Candyman_3%3a_Day_of_the_Dead/3kBlpsx0">Candyman 3: Day of the Dead</a></i> (1999), and <i><a href="/facts/Candyman_(2021_film)/mpDaEK09">Candyman</a></i> (2021) which the latter serves as a direct-sequel to the original. </p>