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Release year: 1992

Storyline

The Candyman, a murderous soul with a hook for a hand, is accidentally summoned to reality by a skeptic grad student researching the monster's myth.

Top credits

Directors

Bernard Rose

Writers

Cast

Virginia Madsen — Helen Lyle
Xander Berkeley — Trevor Lyle
Tony Todd — The Candyman
Kasi Lemmons — Bernadette Walsh

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Did you know

• The bees were bred specifically for this movie. They needed to make sure that the bees were only 12 hours old, so that they looked like mature bees, but their stingers wouldn't be powerful enough to do any real damage.

• Exterior, hallway, and stairway scenes were actually filmed for a few days in the infamous Cabrini-Green housing projects, though the producers had to make a deal with the ruling gang members to put them in the movie as extras to ensure the cast and crew's safety during filming. Even with this arrangement, a sniper put a bullet through the production van on the last day of filming, though no one was injured.

• While investigating one of Candyman's crime scenes, Helen and Bernadette discover that the design of the apartment's medicine cabinet made it a possible point of entry for an intruder. This was not a made-up piece of horror movie fiction. While researching the film, Bernard Rose learned that a series of murders had been committed in Chicago in this very way.