This is how film should look. Great balance between art shots and big shots. Not the most ambitious but it doesn't need it; it balances and works so well. The angles are beautiful. It has excellent sound. The tone, the characterisation, the plot development and the emotions are so well constructed that this is close to the perfect noir horror without obvious noir references. Stunning acting, awesome direction and well-constructed scary scenes with a serious foreboding tone make for a fantastic experience. One of the best horror movies of all time with a stunningly dark tone.

To start off, it was a relatively good movie. What i didn't like: 1) kinda slow 2) not very scary as a movie overall 3) Τhe villain was not very well designed and was not so scary for a villain 4) not that many jump-scareswhat i liked: 1) Clive Barker was involved 2) Very nice and dark, yet weird,atmosphere within the movie 3) It was a fairly good production, as amovie, meaning it was well made technically speaking. 4) It had it'sfair share of blood/gore.To sum up, i did not regret watching it, but i wouldn't watch it again for many years.

Candyman was one of the finest horror films I have ever seen and one of my personal favorites. Writer-director Bernard Rose does an excellent job of adapting a Barker story into a masterpiece film that not only provides chills and scares, but also many issues of racism and vengeance. Everything from the sound to story pacing is tight and extremely effective, and I have to agree with what someone else here said: Philip Glass' score is so subtle and creepy, it's perfect! The plot of Candyman centers around a woman who is as much of an agnostic when it comes to the intangible world as one could imagine; she boldly pursues strides into the haunts of a malevolent spiritual force (the Cabrini Green Housing Projects in Chicago, which are dangerous enough without factoring evil spirits into the equation) in search of discovering the source of the legend of the Candyman, a man with a hook for an arm who can be summoned by repeating his name into a mirror five times. She is convinced, as any liberal pseudo-sociologist might be, that the Candyman is but a projection of the fears the urban poor have of gang/drug-related violence. The fact that there is a gang leader who has taken to calling himself the Candyman reinforces this conviction... However, midway through the film, there is a decisive rupture, and everything in Madsen's life begins to unravel at an alarming rate. The chain of events that follow a particularly frightening scene in a parking lot take on the logic of a nightmare that one is unable to escape from. Soon, everything we have come to know about the young woman we've been following, all of the connections she has to her friends, to her husband, to humanity in general seem to be undone. It would be unfair to describe exactly what happens, but let it be said that the final fifty minutes of Candyman are as frightening as anything I've seen on film.Candyman is a well written thriller. It's overabundance of gore overshadows the existential elements. All the actors perform their parts with aplomb. Virginia Madsen is more than believable as a woman on the edge of a breakdown, while Tony Todd was born to play the Candyman. His tall and imposing stature combined with a deep and creepy voice can be truly unnerving at times. In a word, if you're a horror fan don't hesitate in getting this cult classic. Candyman really is prime-quality stuff! Overall rating: 8 out of 10.

I remember this movie creating quite a "buzz" when I was younger. I decided to give it a watch, since I haven't seen a decent horror movie in a while. It has a good start with an interesting background story to an urban lore. The middle of the movie slows down a little bit, but leads to a relatively interesting and exciting end. It definitely has it's share of moments that'll make you jump, but they are mostly based off of cheaper gimmicks such as sudden loud noises that coincide with a quick scene change or appearance. It probably won't keep you up at night, but it is worth a watch, even 23 years after it's release date. For entertainment value I'd say it still holds up. If I were younger, I'm sure I'd be freaked out and tempted to dare a friend to try giving Candyman a call ourselves.