I’ve noticed an uptick in the activity on this blog. Welcome, everyone! I hope we can find you something you like! I’m posting a list of some of my favorite entries, ones that I enjoyed writing and that help people get a sense of what this blog is really about. It’s not a fanblog (although … Continue reading “Some Highlights!”
Another thing that sets Candyman above other horror films is the psychological nature of the eponymous ghost: a black artist who fell in love with a rich white man’s daughter, the Candyman’s hand was cut off and rudely replaced with a hook, and he was left chained to tree to be stung to death by bees, sometime around the turn of the century. In short, Candyman is not just a bogeyman of the ghetto, he’s a walking, talking representation of white guilt over the way African Americans were treated in the Colonies over the last 500 years.
