The entire time I was watching the clock going, 'when is the horror supposed to start?'- in the LAST 5 MINUTES the film tries its best to show us its take on horror and it's pathetic.
#Candy man movies movie
Makes sense cuz she didnt say it right? Well in the final scene one of the main characters is in police custody and to escape(revenge?) she says Candyman 5 times but the Candyman only kills the cops? Wait what? After analyzing all the killings the Candyman did, I noticed the people killed where white people(rightfully so since they did the ritual right?)but even if they didn’t do the ritual they died and if a black person does the ritual they live and the white people still die… The movie did have some cool jump scares(the elevator one was cool) and some of the killings were gruesome, but thats is about it(good acting tho!)The movie fails in everything else(writing, character development, consistency, satisfying ending.) … Expand In one scene 5 schoolgirls say Candyman 5 times in a restroom and end up being killed, but 1 girl(she is a 6th girl that was in a stall) doesnt take part in the ritual and only witnesses the deaths. Ill give examples of some of these issues so spoiler alert: in one scene the characters are in an art gallery and the camera focuses in on a random stranger and then pans away and it leaves you saying “wait who was that?”(character dies in a later scene and thats it) in that same gallery scene the main character is showing his art piece then in the very next camera cut he is drunk and acting like a douche to some characters we don’t recognize…When did he get drunk? Who is that guy he hates? Now the movie is very clear saying that if u say “Candyman” 5 times u SHOULD die. Very disappointed in this movie.The writing and pacing was all over the place leaving the viewer say “wait…whose that?” “When/how did that happen?” “Why doesnt the character do this?” “Why didnt he/she die?”. This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. There is some stellar shadow-puppetry, and the cinematography is passably slick, but the aesthetics can't make up for the boring, nonsensical plot, which includes a "twist" so dumb that I gave up twenty minutes before the movie ended. As a villain, Candyman poses the same threat as innumerable other movie villains, which is a massive shame given how compelling and empathetic the character once was. With no one to root for, the narrative is a vacuum in which lots of stuff happens, and a lot of social justice tropes are trotted out for the sake of establishing Contemporary Relevance (TM), but nothing about the plot lands or feels meaningful. Neither has any clear sense of desire or motivation. (Which is *fine*, but nowhere near as interesting as the original character.) There's no reason to root for either of the two protagonists - one an ill-defined art dealer, the other an ill-defined artist. Multiple, conflicting backstories confuse Candyman as a character, who is stripped of his seductive qualities, and is simply a specter of menace. (Which Amazed by how awful this new version is, especially with the pedigree of talent involved. Amazed by how awful this new version is, especially with the pedigree of talent involved.