Disappointed in the 2021 version of "Candy Man", I went to find the 92 version of "Candy Man" to compare, although the pace is also a bit slow, not as compact and exciting as the same kind of fierce ghost slashing film, but a beautiful and weak person was falsely accused and killed by the evil devil, but it integrated elements such as racial discrimination, infidelity, violence and so on, and the amazing ending improved the quality.
Compared with director Jordan Neill's paranoia about killing white policemen with black ghosts in 2021, the story is tedious and boring, pandering to the political correctness of racial discrimination; the plot of this film in 92 is methodically narrated, through the evil of black ghosts, restoring the beating, framed, and burned of weak women, but she resists and struggles all the way.
The legend of "shouting five candy people in the mirror, he will kill" attracted the scholar Helen, who wanted to find out the truth of the matter, so she went to the open and secret visit, not wanting to fall into a terrorist crisis. The blonde Virginia Madsen is at the peak of her appearance, and she has large-scale shots of nudity, bathing, and killing, which is charming.
"Candy Man" is a ghost of a black man who fell in love with a white man and was tortured and burned to death, and through his tragic experience, he reflected that "the unfair treatment of black people" was the main cause of hatred and revenge. However, the weak female stream was beaten by the black people for investigation, and was framed and arrested by the "candy man", and the boyfriend also took the opportunity to cheat, which was even more tragic.
The "candy man" with the iron hook in his hand kills the dog, kills Helen's girlfriend, and then kills the doctor, and every time he appears, he is haunted and cruel. The film's blood plasma and creepy details are very essential to the horror films of the 90s. And the swarm of bees called by "Candy Man" is even more daunting to dense phobias.
The heroine has been framed as a murderer by the "Candy Man", and has no defense at all, rushing into other windows along the cliffs of high-rise buildings, knocking people out of clothes and escaping, and all kinds of evasion details are exquisite. It was so easy for her to go home to meet her boyfriend, but she found that the other party had another new love, and she collapsed in an instant! No matter how terrifying the fierce ghost is, it is not as dark as the human heart.
There are some long-range shots of reinforced concrete urban buildings to show that human beings are small in the city, and with the tragic encounters of the heroine, including the combination of photography and music, people feel the meaning! The heroine is not a victim, or a facial character who fights against the villain, but upholds her own good intentions.
In the end, in order to save the baby, Helen entered the garbage heap trap of the "Candy Man" and wanted to burn her "together", when the black man represented by the baby's mother wanted to burn her, and the crisis mood reached its maximum in an instant. In the crisis of the heroine, she burned the "candy man" with a torch, and climbed out of the fire with the baby in her arms, although it was open and hung, but it was very tragic!
The heroine defeats the villain with self-sacrifice, but she becomes a new urban horror legend, candyman died, candywoman was born, killed Xiao San and the cheating husband, so that the ending seems to be negative energy, but the scene of her funeral after her death has a human awakening, many black people come to mourn, and throw down the iron hook.
Life is like this, your personal strength is small, can not fight against the powerful dark forces, and may even eventually be assimilated and corrupted together. But as long as you have been kind, upright, brave, and saved people in times of crisis or insisted on doing positive energy things, your "original heart" will be feared by the world.
Today, the new version of "Candy Man" in the United States is massacring white police to vent anger, and some mainland blockbuster war movies are killing and scandalizing foreign enemies, these blockbuster movies are definitely going to start again and again, but there will still be real masterpieces born.