Candyman (1992)
Figures
Characters
- The character of Bernadette "Bernie" Walsh
Form & technique
- Philip Glass's musical score
Tropes
- The Cabrini-Green housing project
- Candyman's spectral appearances and murders → The Return of the Repressed
- Helen Lyle's physical and psychological transformation
- Helen and Bernadette's initial research trip into Cabrini-Green
- The oral transmission of the Candyman legend ("Say his name five times")
- Helen Lyle's final confrontation and transformation into a new legend → The Final Girl
- Candyman's origin story (Daniel Robitaille)
Films most connected to Candyman