Candyman (1992)
Bernard Rose's brilliantly crafted horror which looks into the myth of an urban legend of the Candyman who will murderously appear when you say his name five times whilst looking into a mirror.
Whilst that aspect of the film seemed rather creepy at the films original time of release in the early nineties, thirty years later it's pretty cringe inducing as it's an idea which has been done to death in the intervening decades since.
Despite this Candyman remains a compelling film. Even though Tony Todd's, who is terrific by the way, title character has gone down as a horror film great, Rose keeps the film refreshingly gimmick free as he ratchets up the tension.
Watching it again after several years it really came across as a very adult and intelligent film in it's study of psychological fear with the excellent Virginia Madsen at the center of it all seemingly abandoned by all around her and left to fend for herself against the hook handed supernatural entity.
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