Candyman 4K 1992

Standard irregularity. On the one hand, a story about a maniac from the netherworld, quite banal for American cinema. And on the other, it is something achingly sweet, a film you can touch and feel, a film in which pain becomes joy.

As they say, the words love and blood do not rhyme by accident.

And this film confirms it. For this is one of those few films where love, death, life, murder and cruelty are intertwined so closely that it is impossible not to tear them apart.

'Candyman' is the movie after which I realized that blood and honey are equally sticky. No, I knew this before, but I only realized it after watching it, as if I felt it, felt it with my fingers, my skin, my body. And I'll tell you without concealing it was not a pleasant feeling. It was scary.

And you know, fear can also be sticky. It flows through your veins, like thick sugar, slowly creeps up to your heart and squeezes it, like it's covering it with a hard sugar coating.

Tony Todd. The one. The legendary Candyman. The man whose face you can't look at without shuddering. And whose voice turns your whole being inside out like a steel hook.

Tony Todd. The one. The legendary Candyman. No. Death himself. Only in human form. The death we all await with a shudder and a frenzy of ecstasy.

Virginia Madsen. That's her. Helen. Beautiful and blond. No. This is Life herself. Life fiercely opposed to death. Or Life caught in Death's claws.

Tony Todd and Virginia Madsen. Life and Death. Is there a confrontation here? No. They will always be together and always be inseparable. Because they will always just be. For they are an ALLEGORY OF DEATH. An allegory of the macabre and the beautiful. An allegory eternal.

'Candyman' - watch young creators - writers and directors. Watch and learn how to recreate the true forbidding of all-consuming horror on the screen.