Not as good as the original, but it had some kind of a story that worked
I don't know why, but I decided to get into the Candyman sequels, I did
enjoy the first Candyman, so why not see the sequels? Tony Todd is an awesome boogeyman as well, so I was kinda looking forward to seeing the second Candyman and curious where the story was going. While the story worked in some ways, I wasn't that thrilled about it. Not to mention I didn't like the city change, I'm just filled with so much Chicago pride, you know? Annie is a school teacher and her brother is up on murder charges, he is also being accused of murdering her father who was truly murdered by the famous Candyman. Annie knows that her brother is innocent, but her kids start to test her patience on the Candyman myth, to prove them wrong, she calls to the Candyman and makes a big mistake. She finds out that her great grandmother was the lover of Candyman and he wants her now to bring out his past. Candyman Farewell to the Flesh was an alright horror movie and the story could've worked better, but it just seemed like your typical horror sequel and it could be predictable at times. But the husband dying, that was a pretty cool scene I have to admit. So, if you want to, watch it, but it's nothing to get excited over. 5/10. gavinrbain watch Anna And The King Of Siam movie
candyman: a great movie.
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candy man is one of those old time classics that you can't help but want to watch.
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say his name 3 times an he will appear really wana try that.
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The Candyman moves on to New Orleans and starts his horrific murders once more..
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a nice horror movie i really like it.
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this a good sequeul to the first..
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this is a good film..
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this is one of the mot cool movies I have ever seen..
Candyman:Farewell to the Flesh
I must say I was rather entertained by this ill-received sequel to the
original horror hit. I do admit that the film's explanation regarding the origin of Daniel Robitaille's power seemed rather silly(the idea that Candyman's soul was trapped in the mirror of his white lover Caroline due to the extremities of his torment, hate & agony for what the racist white township did to him), but the film has so many things I enjoyed that I was actually able to look past it. Annie(Kelly Rowan, many who watched THE OC might recognize her)is a schoolteacher in New Orleans whose father died at the hook of the Candyman. Her brother, Ethan(William O'Leary), is in jail for the possible murder of a novelist(he wrote a novel about Candyman, was asked by Ethan's father for help), who we see at the opening of the film, calling out Candyman in front of a crowd at his book-signing. Ethan furiously questions why the novelist didn't help his father and later attempted to brawl with him in a bar. The novelist, who cynically called on Candyman's name, enters the bar bathroom and is gutted. Annie's mom, Octavia(Veronica Cartwright)hides a secret in a locked drawer and we will find that it holds a key to a certain mystery regarding their family and the Candyman. Annie has a student, Matthew(Joshua Mayweather)who is plagued with dreams of the Candyman, and to satisfy her frightened class that the "hooked-madmen from the mirror" doesn't exist, calls his name across a reflection inviting true horror into her life. The film's mystery is what Candyman's relationship is to Annie. There's a history here that Annie will seek answers for..but will she like what that answer yields? I think why I enjoyed this more than I thought was the atmospheric setting(Mardi Gras, New Orleans, mostly the slums areas), the menacing Todd(an actor I'm quite fond of), the wonderful Philip Glass score, Condon's photography, and the well-staged death sequences. I won't lie to you, this is, above all, a slasher film and director Bill Condon allows Candyman to do some damage in this sequel penetrating quite a few victims through the torso with the hook bursting through the stomach, often lifting them right in the air..Condon, for added effect, often closes in on the horrified expressions of those being thrusted through. My favorite sequence is when Annie re-visits the home of her youth(which was a plantation house with a slaves quarters nearby), follows a walkway into a large room with an altar of candles and skulls enshrined to Candyman with this incredible painted portrait on the wall above of him crying out in anger with his hook and other arm reaching out. There's a great scene where Detective Levesque(David Gianopoulos), who believes wholeheartedly that Annie has been murdering people in the fashion of Candyman with brother Ethan covering up for her, calls on Candyman and is thrown through the interrogation room window after being penetrated through..and extended in the air.. by the true monster.. |
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