Candyman

Candyman (1992)

Timing: 1:40 (100 min)

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Release date

1992-10-16

Country

United States

Production

PolyGram Filmed Entertainment, TriStar Pictures, Propaganda Films, Candyman Films

Genre

Drama, Horror, Thriller

Budget

$8 000 000

Revenue

$25 792 310

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Director

Bernard Rose

Actors

Virginia Madsen, Tony Todd, Xander Berkeley, Kasi Lemmons, Vanessa Williams, DeJuan Guy, Michael Culkin, Stanley DeSantis, Gilbert Lewis, Marianna Elliott
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Scenario

Bernard Rose

Producer

Steve Golin, Sigurjón Sighvatsson, Alan Poul, Clive Barker

Operator

Anthony B. Richmond

Composer

Philip Glass

Artist

Chris Anthony Miller, Maria C. Connors, Andy Werderitsch

Audition

Jane Alderman, Jason La Padura

Editing

Dan Rae
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• Ted Raimi appears in a small role at the very beginning of the film.
• At the insistence of Tony Todd, a clause was included in his contract stating that he would receive $1,000 for each bee sting during filming. He was stung a total of 23 times.
• The story of Candyman draws on elements of two real-life urban legends – Bloody Mary (who appears if you call her name several times in front of a mirror) and Hook (a killer with a prosthetic hand ending in a hook).
• In the scene where bees fill Candyman’s chest cavity, the bees were placed in a prop chest cavity, which was then suspended on Tony Todd’s chest. The bees were placed there very carefully and with all precautions, and then removed just as carefully.
• The filming of the scene in which Candyman’s hook breaks through the cabinet in Helen’s bathroom was organized in the absence of Virginia Madsen, so the horror on her face is far from acted. She screamed and ran off the set.