Bernard:Also, one of the reasons why I hired Philip Glass was I was a big fan ofKoyaanisqatsiand I remember there were helicopter shots in that movie looking down and going over skyscrapers. I think that was the first time I ever saw that. Koyaanisqatsi(1982) opening title card Bernard:Th...
1992 1 min 6.7(101,182) 61 Candyman is a horror movie from 1992 directed by Bernard Rose, based on Clive Barker's story "The Forbidden". The film stars Virginia Madsen as Helen Lyle, a graduate student studying urban legends and folklore, and Tony Todd as the titular character, a vengef...
“The Forbidden.” is about bourgeois academia’s separation from, indifference towards, and even paranoid distrust of the working classes of Thatcher’s Britain. But we in America are just now, 30 years after this movie premiered getting to a point where people can even talk about “class”...
Purcell. The setting gives the movie character. It takes place in the days leading up to Mardis Gras, which is evident not only by the masked parties that occupy the backdrop but the persistent gabbing of a radio announcer. In a disembodied voice reminiscent of Wolfman Jack, who died the...
“Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh,” like the 1992 “Candyman,” overflows with blood and guts, drowning a potent metaphor for African American rage and oppression. Those who saw the original film will recall that the supernatural figure of its title, summoned by repeating his nickname five ...
On February 2, 1992,Clive Barkerwas interviewed by Connie Martinson about his book Imagica. You can watch the full interview below. Continue reading , On August 19, 2019,Clive Barkerreunited with several members of the cast of the Hellraiser series, including Doug Bradley, for a panel discussio...
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There are things aboutNia DaCosta’sCandymanthat I will not talk about. A direct continuation of Bernard Rose’s 1992 horror favorite, itself an adaptation ofClive Barker’s short story “The Forbidden,” the movie is a superbly unsettling piece of psychological suspense. This insightful descent...
but one that’s never developed. Certainly, the forthright, hard-working single young mother (Vanessa Williams) Madsen meets at Cabrini-Green isn’t about to conjure up some bogyman to blame for the tough challenges in her life; she knows full well the role racism plays in poverty and oppr...
Anne-Marie McCoy, Anthony McCoy’s mother who appears in Candyman (1992), is reprised in a solitary scene between mother and son where an unspoken conflict manages to take center stage. From the beginning of the movie, McCoy has a strained relationship with his mother, represented only throug...