Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh (1995)

User Rating:

4.7/10   

Director:

Bill Condon

Writers (WGA):

Clive Barker (story)
Rand Ravich (screenplay) ...

Release Date:

17 March 1995 (USA)

Genre:

Horror | Thriller

Tagline:

Evil comes when you call his name.

Plot:

The Candyman moves on to New Orleans and starts his horrific murders once more. This time, his intended victim is a school teacher...

Plot Keywords:

Murder | New Orleans | Cult Favorite | Ghost | Hook For Hand

Cast

Tony Todd	...	Candyman / Daniel Robitaille
Kelly Rowan	...	Annie Tarrant
William O'Leary	...	Ethan Tarrant
Bill Nunn	...	Reverend Ellis
Matt Clark	...	Honore Thibideaux
David Gianopoulos	...	Detective Ray Levesque
Fay Hauser	...	Pam Carver
Joshua Gibran Mayweather	...	Matthew Ellis
Timothy Carhart	...	Paul McKeever
Veronica Cartwright	...	Octavia Tarrant
Caroline Barclay	...	Caroline Sullivan
Michael Bergeron	...	Coleman Tarrant
Brianna Blanchard	...	Young Caroline McKeever
Clotiel Bordeltier	...	Liz
Russell Buchanan	...	Kingfisher (voice)

Also Known As:

Candyman II: Farewell to the Flesh

MPAA:

Rated R for violence and gore, and for some sexuality and language.

Runtime:

93 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby SR

Certification:

Iceland:16 | Australia:M | Finland:K-16 (video premiere) | Germany:18 (video premiere) | Norway:18 (video premiere) | Spain:18 | UK:18 | USA:R | Germany:BPjM Restricted

Filming Locations:

Los Angeles, California, USA

Company:

PolyGram Filmed Entertainment

Goofs:

Continuity: In the flooding scene in the slave quarters the Candyman's hook falls off into the water during one of the shots. In the next shot of the Candyman swimming, the hook has reappeared.

Quotes:

Matthew Ellis: He lives in the mirror. That's how he gets you.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in "The League of Gentlemen: Love Comes to Royston Vasey (#1.5)" (1999)

Soundtrack:

I'll See You Somewhere By and By

Didn't have me hooked

Being nothing more than a retread of Bernard Rose's Candyman, this is all rather a pointless exercise in gory effects and lifeless acting. Taken from a short story in Clive Barker's Books of Blood, the tale of an urban myth-become-reality has transferred from Liverpool to New Orleans with no perceptible gain in atmosphere or vibrancy.

Look in the mirror and say his name five times, and the hook-handed anti-hero pops up to wreak gory havoc on the living. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Director Bill Condon has nothing more to offer than did Rose, whose original movie at least had the excuse that it was riding on the popularity of other murderous movie villains like Freddie and Jason.

The story staggers along with laughable predictability, telegraphing it's final "twist" in pantomimic fashion, with the hook-handed ghoul involved in a nonsensical showdown with the token dreadful leading lady.

Sequels invariably fail to live up to the standards of the original and this is no exception. Unfortunately, when the original is a load of blah, you're always going to be on to a loser.