Review – Candyman

Urban legends play McGuffin in this loose adaptation of a Clive Barker short story. This movie almost literally drips with racist sexuality, telling the sordid tale of a white woman driven mad by her flirtation with an evil spirit in the form of a large Black man with a hook for a hand (“I’ll split you from groin to gullet” indeed). When our intrepid heroine finally gives into her desire for the forbidden, she becomes empowered and goes on to achieve urban legend status herself. How touching. Mildly amusing