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With: Virginia Madsen, Tony Todd, Xander Berkeley, Kasi Lemmons, Vanessa Williams, DeJuan Guy, Marianna Elliott, Ted Raimi
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Written by: Bernard Rose, based on a story by Clive Barker
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Directed by: Bernard Rose
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MPAA Rating: R for violence and gore
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Running Time: 99
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Date: 09/11/1992
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Bitter Sweet
By Jeffrey M. Anderson
English filmmaker Bernard Rose would go on to make movies about Beethoven and movies based on works by Tolstoy, but for a fleeting moment, he was a horror guy. His Candyman (1992) was based on a story by Clive Barker and featured several high-class touches, such as a creepy score by Philip Glass, and striking art direction, clashing the academic world with graffiti-ridden inner city projects. Two college students (Virginia Madsen and future film director Kasi Lemmons) research a paper on urban legends. One such legend, the Candyman, appears if you say his name five times in a mirror, which, of course, happens. Tony Todd plays the weirdly elegant, but quite deadly, monster.
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