Like the razor blades hidden in the sweets he hands out, the titular villain of “Candyman” offers a surprisingly sharp story about black suffering. Directed by Nia DaCosta as a sequel to the original ...

The first time Candyman, the hook-wielding ghoul, hit the big screen it was 1992 and he was making mincemeat out of people in Cabrini-Green, the troubled public housing development in Chicago. Since ...

Swarms of stripy insects, however, are far from the most severe problems besetting the new hipster residents of Chicago’s Cabrini-Green luxury lofts. These were formerly a crime-ridden high-rise ...

Still as chilling a work as one could hope to have when it comes to horror, 1994’s Candyman proves to be one of those films that you can put on and just get sucked into until everything else is ...

Candyman is a film grasping for a sense of social and moral rightness that alienates itself from the original 1992 movie. As a result, it tries — and fails — to make a tragic gothic figure into a ...

Say his name five times staring into a mirror, and he’ll come for you. Fairly quickly, too, as most victims in Candyman (★★☆☆☆) don’t have to wait long before the mythical boogeyman materializes to ...

More often than not, when it's announced that a classic horror series is coming back, it's greeted with a healthy dose of scepticism from fans of the series and of the horror genre as a whole. There ...

The first time Candyman, the hook-wielding ghoul, hit the big screen it was 1992 and he was making mincemeat out of people in Cabrini-Green, the troubled public housing development in Chicago. Since ...

Having seen Candyman (2021) only once, I remember it in pieces. Like Bernard Rose’s 1992 film of the same name, Nia DaCosta’s story of a couple living in Chicago ...

Nearly 30 years after the vengeful spirit first haunted the big screen in 1992, the Candyman is back. Serving as a “spiritual sequel” to the original supernatural slasher of the same name, Nia DaCosta ...

In the last few years, I’ve become a big horror movie fan, which has meant playing catchup with films that I was too scared to watch until recently. Add 1992’s “Candyman” to that list. The horror ...