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Hollywood Crime Scene

Episode 211 - Movie vs. Reality: Candyman

Hollywood Crime Scene

Rachel Fisher

True Crime, Comedy

4.64.7K Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2021

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

We discuss the true crime that inspired part of the 1992 horror classic, Candyman. We also discuss the urban legends presented in the film, as well as the making of the film.

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0:00.0

I'm from a small town in Lancashire and growing up, I just always wanted to move away.

0:04.6

But then my geography teacher took us rambling.

0:07.0

So I'm there walking through nature and it begins explaining our home to us.

0:10.8

Why it's so special?

0:12.0

He showed me the trails my grandfather took and also his grandfather before him.

0:15.6

I'd teach taught geography, but really, he was teaching me who I was.

0:20.6

Thinking about teaching, to get advice on your application funding and courses,

0:26.2

search, get into teaching events.

0:57.2

Jessica, Amanda, and Victoria.

1:00.2

Thank you guys.

1:01.2

Thank you all so much.

1:03.2

So this week we're going to talk about one of my all-time favorite horror movies, Candyman.

1:08.4

This will be a hardcore movie versus reality because I'm really going to get into a lot

1:13.6

of the different iterations of Candyman as well as the real-life murder that inspired

1:17.6

elements of the 1992 Candyman.

1:20.9

A lot of sources here, both the 1992 and 2021 versions of the movie I watched.

1:28.3

I read The Clive Barker Story, The Forbidden, which is where we originally hear about Candyman.

1:34.7

Two award-winning articles by Steve Bogueira for the Chicago Reader.

1:39.7

They came in through the Bathroom Mirror and Clause of Death, a few bloody disgusting

1:44.1

articles by Harrison Abbott about Candyman.

1:47.7

I read an article on Urban Legends by Joe Stubbersfield in the Conversation and One on the

1:54.9

2021 movie in Time by Andrew Chao.

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