Film review: ‘THE CANDYMAN’ by Nick Gardener from ‘Built For Speed’
The original 1992 version of The Candyman, which was based on Clive Barker’s story The Forbidden, formed part of the early 90’s urban legend horror genre which repurposed the slasher movie into a kind of cultural myth designed to reflect the anxieties of a particular community. Notably, that community was African Americans who had normally been on the periphery of
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