
Now it is said that if someone looks in a mirror and says Candyman's name five times, he will appear and murder them with his hook. His hand was cut off and replaced with a hook, after which he was smeared with honey from an apiary, stung to death by the bees and burned. Helen, a graduate student researching graffiti and urban legends, visits a run-down district (the fictional "Spector Street" in the story, Chicago's gang-ridden Cabrini-Green in the film) and discovers the story of Candyman, the ghost of a portrait painter and son of a former slave in the Civil War, who was brutally murdered by a lynch mob for his love affair with a white woman he was hired to paint. Come with me, and be immortal.Īs requested by, I have drawn art based on Clive Barker's short horror story "The Forbidden", adapted into the film Candyman in 1992. "I am the writing on the wall, the whisper in the classroom.
