Candyman

The Candyman is an urban legend about the ghost of a slave who returns from the dead in search of revenge if you say his name five times. A horror movie was made in 1992 about the legend, followed by two sequels, starring Tony Todd as the Candyman.
Candyman, according to the legend, if you look into a mirror and chant the name "Candyman" five times, he will appear behind you and kill you with his hook. For you see, the Candyman is a vicious killer with a bloody hook for a hand. He appears from the mirror, covered in blood and bees and he has nothing but murder on his mind.

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Okay, just for the record, Candyman is not now, nor ever has been, an urban legend. The movie was inspired by the Clive Barker short story “The Forbidden” originally published in his short story collection “In the Flesh” and is wholly a work of fiction. I remember reading it back in the late ‘80s when I was a rabid Clive Barker fan. In fact, I’m still am. My current vanity plate is Cabal, which is the novella that inspired the movie Nightbreed (which is also wholly fictional, by the way).

But I digress.

It intrigues me that people have inexplicably turned the fictitious Candyman into a real urban legend. I really can’t think of another movie where fans retroactively created the legend the movie was based on after the movie came out. It makes me wonder what it was about Candyman that inspired this.

Oh, and you really should read “The Forbidden”, by the way. The original weird description of Candyman is worlds away from the handsome, seductive and tragic figure cut by the great Tony Todd.

Sweets for the sweet.