Candyman

Synopsis

Helen Lyle (Virginia Madsen) is coed at the university from Illinois to Chicago and married to a professor, Trevor (Jean-Louis in the French version). With his/her friend Bernadette, they write a thesis on the urban Légendes and the popular Croyance S. During its investigations, it is challenged by a recurring history, that of mythical Candyman which terrorizes the inhabitants of the disadvantaged district of Cabrini Green since decades, assassinating women and children mainly. Helen feeling there that it holds the occasion dreamed to spice its work, convinces Bernadette to go to inquire into the same spot of the crimes, in the sordid city of Cabrini Green, a black ghetto delivered to the gangs and misery. They go to the apartment of the last victim in date, persuaded that in fact of phantom, the murderer is introduced into the apartments thanks to a design defect allowing the communication between the bathrooms by a passage located behind the mirrors. On the spot, Helen discovers an apartment left with the abandonment and covered with strange and worrying Graffiti S. They become acquainted then with the Anne-Marie neighbor who raises only her baby and agrees to say to them what it knows. Later during a dinner in company of an eminent colleague of her husband who works on the same subjects, she learns the true story from this Candyman. Daniel Robitaille was a son of Esclave whose parent had succeeded in making fortune thanks to the patent of a machine manufacture shoes. Daniel attended best the schools and received best possible education. Very gifted artistically, it started to earn its living by portrayant rich person silent partners. Thus in 1890 it was elected by a rich person landowner ordering a painting of his/her still virgin daughter to him. Daniel and his model tied a idylle and the young heiress fell pregnant.
The furious father of this affront (which more is made by a black) paid brutish lout and avinées to lynch poor Robitaille. They coiled it blows before slicing the right hand to him then to cover it with honey to deliver it in grazing ground to the Abeille S which pricked it until death. They incinerated then its body and spread its remainders on the fields which will become years later the Ghetto of Cabrini Green. Since, any person who will recite her name with 5 recoveries vis-a-vis a mirror will see it reappearing. And its destiny will be disastrous. Obsessed by its research, Helen turns over to Cabrini and becomes acquainted with a young boy who tells one before to him énième history of Assassinat of child perpetrated several years. While wanting to take photographs of the places of the drama, it is wildly attacked by a band and their chief armed with a hook of to stop. Wounded, she will arrive in spite of very confusing her attacker in front of the police force which believes to have found the murderer sought so much who sowed the horror in the district.
A few weeks later in a Helen carpark is confronted with true Candyman, furious Scepticisme of which it makes proof, and constrained according to him to show itself again to start again the Mythe, so that people believe again. Helen disappears in front of him and awakes in the apartment of covered Anne-Marie of blood and a meat-mincer with the hand. The baby disappeared and the young mother is like insane; the alerted police force intervenes and stops Helen. Questioned, it is finally slackened thanks to the assistance of its lawyer and can return to it, where her husband is not to him great help, monopolized which he is by his connection with one of his coeds.
At it, the young woman is again badgered by Candyman, and the inappropriate visit of Bernadette will turn to carnage. Once again appearances show Helen which, into full is delirious, is interned in a psychiatric hospital. During an interview with a doctor, she calls upon Candyman which presents and breaks the Psychiatre before demolishing the bonds of Helen, which manages to escape from the hospital to return to elle.
There, it with unpleasant surprised to note that the young mistress of Trévor already started to repaint the apartment with her taste (doubtful).
Betrayed, esseulée, Helen has nothing any more but one idea at the head, to find the missing baby. It turns over to Cabrini and in the abandoned apartment of the last stage, it discovers the den of Candyman which gives him a mortal Baiser and tries to convince it to accompany it in its fatal search because it points out its old love perdu.
to him Helen refuses, and once awaked it street on a large wood pile and refuse piled up with the feet of the turns from where it intended to come a cry from child.
Crawling among waste, it finds the baby and protects it from Candyman. During this time, the inhabitants of the district gather and believer to hold Candyman there, they put fire at the Bûcher. Helen manages to extirpate blazing inferno to return the infant to his mother before succumbing to her Brûlure S. At the time of her burial, a crowd of inhabitants of Cabrini comes to pay a last homage to him, a news Légende was born. The ultimate scene takes seat with the apartment of Trévor where this one is corroded by the remorse to the great displeasure sound ingenuous news partner. Mortified, he pronounces by 5 times the name of Helen in the Miroir of his bathroom. This one appears behind him, carrying the Stigmate S of its tragic Mort, and the smile with the lips éviscère his/her former companion with a hook of stopping.

Distribution

Virginia Madsen ( Helen Lyle )
Tony Todd ( Candyman/Daniel Robitaille )
Xander Berkeley ( Trevor Lyle )
Kasi Lemmons ( Bernadette Walsh )
Vanessa Williams ( Anne-Marie McCoy )
DeJuan Guy ( Jake )
Carolyn Lowery ( Stacey )
Barbara Alston: ( Henrietta Mosely )

To note

The film knew two continuations:

Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh , of Bill Condon in 1995.
Candyman: Day off the Dead (video), of Turi Meyer in 1999.

External bond

Card of film on Internet Movie Database.

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