ManMountainDene2012
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There are so many layers and areas of normal human psychology that Candyman touches on, that you're left wanting to watch it again and again, regardless of the fact that there is something extremely frightening about it.
It gives a real, fleshy and horrific face to racism. By watching the movie (and particularly when you also watch Candyman 2), you see the end result of what racism can do to a person.
And for that aspect alone, it's terrifying, because everyone of us naturally has some measure of racism in us, whether we aknowledge it or not.
Like our own 'true self' emotions and guilt, Candyman is inescapable, he haunts his victims for a long time before finally destroying them.
His story itself, his history - is tragic - like that of The Creation from Frankenstein. Candyman is actually created by monsters - but then he himself is hypocritically branded a 'monster' when he turns against his tormentors, or in this case, their future ancestors.
And in an albeit, brutal, fashion - his own seeming lack of racism is refreshing and frightening at the same time as being something to be proud of.
The fact that he is like a child, calling to the sound of name, only to be denied, is one of the subconsciously sadder aspects of the story.
In all, I'd say once you get past the blood and guts, it's not really a slasher movie at all, it's more of tragic love story, with - in a sense - unrequited love, and of course denied love - which is more brutal than having love and losing it, or having no experience of it whatsoever.
It also has elements of a dark fairytale, as well as passing remarks about the way we live our lives and treat eachother.
And in amongst there, it also goes back to our own emotions torturing us and eventually destroying us if we don't make peace with them and accept their existence and importance. It's hinted at a few times in the movie, particular the first one, that Candyman is really a hallucination in Helen - the central characte
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