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American Hauntings Podcast

Candyman

American Hauntings Podcast

Cody Beck and Troy Taylor

True Crime, Religion & Spirituality, Tv & Film, Spirituality, Film Reviews, History

4.71.5K Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2025

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

On October 16, 1992, one of the greatest horror films of the 1990s -- CANDYMAN -- opened across the country. But it’s the reality that the film is inspired by – racial terror, poverty, drugs, police indifference, and the disturbing murder of a Chicago woman – that is even more frightening than the movie itself. 

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On October 16, 1992, one of the greatest horror films of the 1990s, Candyman, opened across the country.

1:14.3

Filmed on location in Chicago, the film told the story of a grad student named Helen Lyle,

1:19.6

played by Virginia Madsen, who learns of an urban legend about the murdered son of a slave

1:24.8

with a hook for a hand who prays on the residents of a notorious

1:28.7

housing project in the city. And he could be summoned by looking in a mirror and calling his name

1:35.7

five times. Helen's research turns up a chilly number of identical murders in the neighborhood

1:42.4

and she decides to visit the housing project

1:45.4

with her friend, Bernadette.

1:47.6

She believes the so-called Candyman, this urban legend, is a real killer who uses the neighborhood

1:55.2

boogeyman to create fear among the residents of the projects.

2:00.5

Laughing at the silly legend,

2:02.7

Helen proves to her friend it's not true by looking into a mirror and summoning Candyman,

2:10.4

with, of course, bloody and terrifying results.

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