Something always fascinated me about Candyman and the setting. Something that I never got from other horror movies.

@Thaizeo

5 жыл бұрын

Its in the hood

@dkupke

5 жыл бұрын

Even as a straight man, Tony Todd oozed sexy in that role

@supahdupahplayahmacknumbah7791

5 жыл бұрын

Because it was a real place. Alot of really horrible things that happened there.

@peacefuldays4255

5 жыл бұрын

@@dkupke he oozed sexy in startrek too

@fiftyfadesofgrey

5 жыл бұрын

same here. something about cabrini green projects fascinates me. learning about every thing about it.

So that's why Cabrini Green intrigued me so much. It was a creepy set. This movie gave me nightmares.

@alisaomahahillsvictoria3br671

4 жыл бұрын

Celester it's my favorite

@LonerBecause

4 жыл бұрын

Yes!

@gemeni3000

4 жыл бұрын

It was quite depressing

@marriagaanthony9947

4 жыл бұрын

Crack.com you got a link to the story?

Candyman was scary as hell, but this wasn’t the first time that a real-life urban ghetto was used in a horror movie. In the early ‘80s, the horror film Wolfen used Charlotte Street, 172nd Street, and Luis Nine Blvd in the South Bronx as settings for major urban blight where supernatural wolves would hide out. This was not a movie set - the arson was so bad in that area by then that it was the ideal setting. The only difference is that South Bronx was so awful that is was uninhabitable. There were some census blocks that lost almost 100 percent of its residents. Like Cabrini Green, this area would be revitalized but affordable housing was not a priority for those who needed it most.

I grew up in Cabrini i'm glad i made it out ok

@MrShugg2u

7 жыл бұрын

Me too, no doubt

@zeekword4111

7 жыл бұрын

CHI Nation i wonder why jesus the christ never came to all the hoods of the world and said STOP and healed people just saying maybe its fake

@teriruakingdommadd

7 жыл бұрын

CHI Nation me too

@dkupke

5 жыл бұрын

Much respect

@alisaomahahillsvictoria3br671

4 жыл бұрын

CHI Nation your true surviver I never been thier but my ex co worker said he went thier

Yes this movie and Cabrini Green always has fascinated me as well.If it was still standing I would have loved to of walked around there.

@amilyingtho

10 ай бұрын

this didn't happen in cabrini

I wish I knew the name of the background music starting at 4:13. It’s such a chill instrumental that carries sadness and warmth at the same time

Prob the most relevant horror I have ever seen. Sorry but no body takes horrors that seriously anymore. They've become very formulaic & typical. From the moment you switch this film on... you realise VERY quickly that you're watching something too close to home. The music, the direction style, & the setting all make for a very esoteric & realistic atmosphere. Cabrini Green may have been a disastrous project, but it makes for a very real feel, because the people who lived in them were as real as they come. Respect to those who lived there. They were left & forgotten... ...some may even say they deserved to have Candyman do their bidding!

Tony Todd is the best

Great little doco, best one so far about cabrini and candyman 👍 thanks

When the production team held up the crew jackets I thought the bees were bullet holes

We all need to get over the fear of public housing. Go and hang out in a public housing project near you!

Well there was kind of a movie about that. Tales from the Hood remember when the dolls came back to kill the plantation racist owner guy?

@ManEasy

4 жыл бұрын

yea that dude was a pompous idiot just hearing himself talk lol

@lana_6336

3 жыл бұрын

Tales from the hood

@JWB86

3 жыл бұрын

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@Sailovesbellydance89

3 жыл бұрын

Yup. I was saying that too lol

Candyman was based off a guy who broke into a woman's house thru her bathroom mirror n killed her

@tubefreakmuva

3 жыл бұрын

Yes that is true.

@mrs.haynes4636

3 жыл бұрын

Yes that's true

@blameitoncapitalism

3 жыл бұрын

Not really "based off" but, most likely, the film was very loosely inspired by. It was actually based in a short story called "The Forbidden" by Liverpool native Clive Barker. It was changed into the urban Chicago setting for the movie.

Fun fact The real story of the Candyman (The Forbidden) written by Clive Barker, was meant to be based in Liverpool England, but as it was made for an American audience they had to change many aspects of the story, one of them is an event we celebrate every 5th of November which is known as Guy Fawkes night or Bonfire night, Guy Fawkes was sentenced to be hanged, drawn and quartered after his failed plot to blow up the parliament of lords and failed attempt to assassinate King James I, the Gunpowder Plot of 1605. The story leads up to that event in the book in modern day but this event is obviously not well known in America but the residents of Cabrini Green have a massive bonfire in the movie. The story is also based in a gritty working-class housing estate which is why they presumably used Cabrini Green for its gritty and real life backdrop

Hopefully Jordan Peel will bring some new views here

@LonerBecause

4 жыл бұрын

Hopefully

@megaangelic

3 жыл бұрын

Hopefully not as god awful as get out was. That film should never have been made, shockingly shit and hugely pandering.

@Hervinbalfour

3 жыл бұрын

@@megaangelic Speak for yourself....

They put it in the right spot but on Candyman 2 he was back where he was from, New Orleans.

@LonerBecause

4 жыл бұрын

Very good point

Great piece

I grew up in Atlanta in the late 80s/early 90s. We were afraid of "the naked man in the woods," which I guess is also "the raper man." Maybe it had to do with the ATL child murders? No idea.

@1966johnnywayne

4 жыл бұрын

Wayne Williams ... Atlanta child, and adult murderer.

Part of the reason they didn't go too much into the racial divide in Candyman is it could easily have turned into a horror story that only applied to poor blacks. When you go too much into the question of race people not belonging to the race in question start thinking "well it doesn't apply to me so I don't need to care." Minimizing the divide and maximizing the similarities (e.g. that the POV character was living in a building originally intended to be another Cabrini Green) peels away layers of both real and imagined otherness that allow people to disconnect. The suggestion of a horror movie about the ghosts of slaves coming back for revenge on the descendants of the slave owners is an interesting one, but if not handled carefully it could easily play into racist fear mongering. Maybe if the ghost in question were First Nation or Irish (which, admittedly, would leave the production wide open to accusations of whitewashing and cultural insensitivity despite the real basis in history). In addition to being made slaves of in the New World by European colonists, various "problem" natives were sent to the west indies for "seasoning " and some were shipped all the way back to Africa (the Triangle Trade in reverse).

@MelancoliaI

7 жыл бұрын

The original short story by Clive Barker took place in an English council flat. It dealt with class issues but the movie threw race into the mix and gave us a black iconic horror character.

@Geezysbaby

5 жыл бұрын

Candyman 2 showed racism it took it to new Orleans it showed a love story and a harsh reality of racism but its been over 15 yrs u gotta watch it for yourself

@lolwutyoumad

4 жыл бұрын

The point is that Helen treats candyman the same way whites treat black stories of injustice, as a myth that has a logical explanation that can simply be fixed. The film turns on Helen when she is the only person who can see the Candyman yet none of the authority figures (other whites) believe her and think she is crazy

Saw this movie in theaters

my uncle Drew alot of pictures on them wall 00:10 was one of his art

@bufordmaddogtannen5164

6 жыл бұрын

yobitchtellyouwecousin lol the candyman?

@onlyplayaseattacoswiththei9433

5 жыл бұрын

@@bufordmaddogtannen5164 I think he's saying his uncle did the art for the movie...BUT what you're saying makes sense also lol

Just bought a condo in the old Cabrini neighborhood on Division. Shits whiter than the burbs these days

@bretsmith2492

4 жыл бұрын

Really? Its gentrified that much already?

@Sebbe40

4 жыл бұрын

@@bretsmith2492 It's been the top 3 fastest growing neighborhood in the entire country for the past two years. There's businesses and houses popping up everywhere. Within a five minute walk I have a brand new Target, Chase, Panera Bread, Starbucks, 800k townhomes etc. It's changing fast and I want a slice

@LonerBecause

4 жыл бұрын

That's very interesting

@Metztii

Жыл бұрын

Lmao those condos are haunted as hell

@Sebbe40

Жыл бұрын

@@Metztii lmao if u think something is haunted for real. you 9 or what?

5:45 LOVE THAT!

There was a horror story about slavery. 12 Years a Slave was one. That movie showed me that slavery is horror.

Gang Leader For A Day by Sudhir Venkatesh one of the best books I ever read

The film critic can't take credit for that "slave ghosts" idea. Watch "Tales from the Hood" from 1995 lol

I can't imagine a horror movie about slavery being well received unless its a all African American production company. It's too problematic and people would think instead of it being art they would see it as an exploitation of historical horror.

@riddim3456

8 жыл бұрын

+SWR 360 Look at Tales from the Hood

@T3XACAN0

2 ай бұрын

James Bond's movie “Live and Let Die” (1973) was a blaxploitation film because it had a full cast of African-American actors and actresses.

Glad I watched this in lieu of the new Candyman Jordan Peele movie coming out soon\

But the movies is epic also. I’m watching it right now

@JimA-pp2nu

4 жыл бұрын

learn basic grammar

what candy man is that

Did they really just bring up the homie the clown thing.. lmfao

@maverickstyles9126

6 жыл бұрын

BiffTannen2015 lol ikr. I remember living in LeClaire Courts and that shit got outta hand with muahfuckas dressed like Homie, Cookie and getting their ass whooped in the process.

@territurner1407

5 жыл бұрын

There was a serial killer clown in the 70s, that live in Chicago. He kill 23 males and bury them round his house. He got sentence to death. I for got his name was. He dress like a clown.

@alanahnatalie8167

5 жыл бұрын

@@territurner1407 that's John Wayne Gacy, baby

I agree

I love terrance riggins leader I hear you look for candyman I love it hes a smoothing criminal

Um I think we need to credit this man for Candyman 2021

Bruh that nigga with the glasses spitting a storm

People keep saying they should’ve made the story more about social issues and racial divide. The original story by Clive Barker the villain wasn’t black he was white, and it was about a poor neighborhood in Liverpool not Chicago! If it couldn’t be more focused around those issues and keep the story. It’s just a story! It wouldn’t be scary if it were a socially focused movie, it’s not a documentary either. It’s not the history of Cabrini Green!

Wow

2020 Candyman

Candyman was a great movie. Don‘t talk it down.

I think they did address the class divide and racial divide but instead of blatantly saying it and addressing it, they showed it.

Well you wish might come true with the new movie produce by Jordan Peels.

Read “the forbidden” from the book of blood vol5 by Clive Barker. It takes place in England and differs variously from the movie and personally is more entertaining

Sweet to the sweet

I think the main reason people haven't made many "slave comes back for revenge on white slave owners" is because that's DANGEROUSLY close to Birth of a Nation kinda vibes, and affirming racists who would see it and go "see? They WERE animals" or some shit like that. It could be done, but it's something that would really need to be done right with the right people. (I could see Spike Lee doing something like that maybe, or Boots Riley)

@fraser_mr2009

3 жыл бұрын

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@T3XACAN0

2 ай бұрын

To be honest, do you notice that many Caucasian people are aging older than African Americans? Think about it.

Sergio must of never seen Tales of the Hood 5:29

Wow fuck urban renewal and gentrification!!! Candyman was so significant to my child hood growin up in the peojects in San francisco california! My dad was born in the project's and to see it here disappear and to hear it's gone in Cabrini Green kills me!!

Gentrification was the real Candyman

My name is Daniel Ricciardo

DiGG DaTT

It probably didnt touch too deeply on all of that because it was a horror movie, not a documentary.

@umakinmefeelgay956

4 жыл бұрын

Yes it was, look up ruthie may McCoy

Sergio Mims: I have a great idea. Someone should do a horror movie on black oppression. Like ... The Candyman?

I think making Candyman a murdered victim of a hate crime- and even giving him a back-story to begin with was a mistake. It made him a character toward whom you could have sympathetic feelings, which just didn’t jibe with the kind of character he was. Here we have the ghost of a dead slave, killed for a racist reason by white men, made “real” by being turned into a boogeyman in whom enough people believe. This makes him a tragic figure for whom the audience feels something. But then we find out he brutally murders people indiscriminately. And he doesn’t just murder white people or racists; he murders ANYONE, including lots of fellow black people, and seems to mostly go for innocent, defenseless people, like a mentally disabled young boy or a family’s faithful dog. Now the movie is asking you to feel sympathy for and see humanity in a serial killer of the most repulsive, depraved order. It just doesn’t work.

@poketz100

5 жыл бұрын

crescentfreshbret basically the same scenario for Friday the 13th also. He was a deformed boy who was bullied because of his deformity and was neglected by camp employees and left to drown. Also a tragedy. Everybody roots for Jason not the dumb ass teenagers. Kinda the same story with Jigsaw. He was a cancer patient who was trying to teach ppl to be greatful for their lives. Kinda felt bad for him cuz he was dying of cancer and he had some sick methods to get ppl to appreciate life.

@libertatemadvocatus1797

5 жыл бұрын

I actually agree with the idea the idea that the back story kinda ruins it in a way. Because the point is that he was a decent man. He was a talented artist and former slave murdered because he fell in love with a white woman and is essentially lynched for it. He's more Christ-like than anything sinister. Even if he was killing innocent white people, it would make sense in that you could argue that he's vengeful and blames them all for what happened to him out of an aimless rage. That would still make him a villain, but one with a motive that is understandable. But his current MO of killing innocent people is somewhat baffling to be honest.

@not_enoughmana

4 жыл бұрын

There's something to be said here about the mutilation of the disabled boy. We're not sure if this act was actually committed by Candyman or the gang leader that took his moniker that gets arrested. I think the actual Candyman figure didn't really make any attempt to correct false stories because they added to his lore and kept him alive. It kept him relevant as "writing on the walls" etc. It's like when you think about presumably Helen's lore that comes out of all of the murderers she was associated with and she didn't commit any of them. With that sad though, he does in fact murder Bernadette and the psych doctor to help Helen build up that lore, which is definitely screwed up. I think he wanted her to join him so badly that he was blind to the fallout, because otherwise he would've just killed baby Anthony too, right? His Helen (that he loved in the past) became pregnant with a child that he never got to see or meet, and I think it's symbolic that he kept the baby alive and trapped them all in the pyre/bonfire together trying to immortalize this "new family" he was trying to create. He thrashes and yells "Come back to me~!" and she refuses his idea of all of the pain and trauma inflicted so that he could have this family he desperately wanted and felt he deserved. I think he's a tragic figure blinded by lost love and generational black trauma attempting to repair his own damaged past no matter the cost. Helen's rejection of him and crawling out of the fire to give the baby back to Anne-Marie is a powerful moment. If he was searching for Helen for generation after generation, I highly doubt he ever would've stopped inflicting pain and suffering on everyone that stood in his way to get to her without her outright rejection of his idea of the "end justifying the means." Anyway, just my two cents :)

@MrFuller876

3 жыл бұрын

@@not_enoughmana It was the gang leader that killed the boy, its stated after he was arrested.

They didn’t need the actual candy man. The environment and gangs was borrow enough.

I think what made this movie so scary was that he was a black man killing people all jokes aside frfr, think about it and his back ground story was fucked up even though should've known better to not sleep with that white woman, but definitely a movie that stuck with me growing up, the movie scared me sooo much that I had to watch it from the little screen when you hit the guide button 😂😂😂.

Well as of 2023 there are at least 7 movies that have the ghost of slaves plot And any more dealing with evil white so I guess there has been progress compared to when this was filmed but worry not none of that progress is counted nor recognized

5:45 it's because CandyMan was a horror film. Not a political racial film about divide.

@youngmeth87

4 жыл бұрын

Dominic Vega there was some racial elements in the second one tho

the "candyman" is the white man. in the white community he is called "uncle sugar".

I think they did do the racial and class divide but they did it subtly of course if this had been done today, it would have been shoved down people's throats, no nuance or character development. Plus wasn't the story of the Candyman just that? A dead slave coming back as a vengeful spirit?

we need candyman 4

@davesylvindeckerii4528

7 жыл бұрын

no we don't this is 2017 ain't no more horror movies lol

@81sexislim

5 жыл бұрын

@one sided loyalty is for suckas frfr??? They probably mess it up anyway

@LonerBecause

4 жыл бұрын

Your wish is about to come true

@territurner1407

4 жыл бұрын

Post to be coming out 2020. I don't know more bout the release date

Candyman the unban legendary if you say his name 5 say my name around you look

The ghosts of American chattel slavery coming back to haunt descendants of slave masters will not be a movie welcomed. There are people today who would prefer for the "slavery talk" to stop and pretend it never happened. Doing so might force them to acknowledge that slavery/Jim Crow perpetuates the systematic racism/generational damage to this day. Those individuals would like to continue with their "American" lives and privileges without hearing about slavery and feeling uncomfortable over it.

Somebody screwed up and put us here... Omg get a job and get yourself out of that situation!

@gc4161

5 жыл бұрын

No much to do when you are a kid in that circumstance

@AS-dr2ro

4 жыл бұрын

The comments you all have made to this lady are uncalled for. How do you know she was privileged? I agree with her. It’s just blame blame blame with some people. I grew up in this type of housing because nobody in my family either worked or if they did it was low paid so it’s all we could afford. That’s nobody’s fault but us. I wasn’t privileged, wasn’t much good at school either and left without many qualifications and was pregnant young, again all my own fault. I worked hard at 2 low paid jobs and eventually managed to buy a house out of the projects/ghetto/hood/council estate whatever your preference to call it. There’s no point in blaming the government etc yes I agree that the don’t give a f**k but I ask you, if you had a house you built and then rented out and the people you rented to didn’t pay any money or work or maintain the property, you as a landlord would you care about how those people lived? I wouldn’t. It’s the governments job to house people (although not really) after that your on your own. If you can’t manage that maybe people shouldn’t be allocated a home. Blame culture nowadays is out of control always someone else fault nobody can just take responsibility.

@territurner1407

4 жыл бұрын

Hard to do if you got a criminal record, little job skills, no education under your belt. Yes people in the work place going to close the door on you. Chicago took most all the programs out. Since the projects no longer round. Its hard to get into the new upgraded apartments. Some run the streets to get by any way they can. The new mayor she needs to step her game up.

Candyman 3: the revenge of George Floyd

blacks and their agendas. Getting real old

@Marcsxx

4 жыл бұрын

Jim A stfu