Candyman product reviews

Deeply disturbing, intelligently made and without a screaming teen in sight, Candyman still delivers the scares.

Candyman has a genuinely uncomfortable premise, great execution and a bone jarringly lonely score by Philip Glass. Tony Todd is exceptional as the hollow-voiced titular creature; a lost soul brought to life by the whispers of myth. Virginia Madsen is totally convincing as Helen; and you can almost see all the cast acting their little socks off so as not to let the side down. Tony Todd, well I could write a review on him alone, he plays Candyman so well that even having not watched this movie for a few years, it is so easy to picture him and feel creeped out.

This really is a horror film for the older horror film lovers, it has enough action in it to keep you watching, enough suspense to keep you wanting to know how it ends. There's no screaming teenagers and so on, nothing that most horror movies today rely upon, none of that is needed to make a really chilling horror film. I, in all honesty, can't watch this too often as Todd is so believable and scary. If you like movies based upon urban legends then Candyman really is a good one to watch.

Twenty years on and still just as scary today.