I’m not scared of no soft ass nikka called candyman. And he was a c00n. Excerpt from a sun times article when the movie came out:
Among these:
- The bogyman (played by 6-foot-5 Tony Todd) is hulking, bloodthirsty and black.
- The black community-here represented by Chicago`s Cabrini-Green apartment complex-is particularly susceptible to superstition and urban myth. - The projects are a ready-made house of horrors, guarded by gang members and overrun by crack addicts. (TriStar`s press kit for the movie describes Cabrini-Green as ''a hopeless community . . . a ghetto filled with poverty, despair and violence.'')
- The black man`s anger toward the white Establishment is usually vented on his own race. (Though tortured and killed by a white mob in 1819, Candyman preys mostly on black women and children, whom he guts and mutilates with his hook.)
- Black men, like the mournful Candyman, are obsessed with white women.
- The black community is made up not of individuals but of amorphous faces that exact in-kind revenge or pay tribute en masse (like the chorus in 1943`s ''Cabin in the Sky'').
BLACK SLASHER `CANDYMAN` DRAWS FIRE OVER `RACIST` DEPICTIONS