Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh is set in New Orleans as the Mardi Gras celebrations are soon to begin, Professor Phillip Purcell (Michael Culkin) is currently promoting his book about the Candyman legend. In an attempt to dismiss the legend he says Candyman five times in a mirror, later that night he is murdered by the hook handed Candyman (Tony Todd) & a guy named Ethan Tarrant (William O'Leary) is accused of his murder. Ethan's sister Annie (Kelly Rowan) sets out to prove her brother innocent & discover the person who killed their father who was murder in a similar way to Purcell, having said Candyman's name in a mirror five times herself he appears & starts to kill her friends & family as he has special plans for her...
Directed by Bill Condon this sequel to the original Candyman (1992) was alright but nothing that special. The script by Rand Ravich & Mark Kruger takes itself extremely seriously & moves along at a fairly sedate pace, there is just about enough going on to retain ones interest but there's nothing particularly memorable here. The character's are bland & forgettable, the dialogue the same & even though I saw it only a few hours ago I'm actually struggling to remember anything about it apart from a highly annoying DJ called Kingfisher who makes a regular appearance on the soundtrack. This one spends a fair amount of time on Candyman's background which isn't overly interesting I'm afraid. It plods along, Candyman occasionally turns up to spout some dull speeches & kill the odd person until the somewhat predictable ending where Annie defeats him. The script seems to be full of those annoying false scares as people sneak up on each other & grab their shoulder thereby scaring everyone, why can't people in these type's of films just announce their arrival properly? There's nothing wrong with this sort of cheap scare but it's used several times throughout this film & it grows tiresome. Having said that it's watchable enough I suppose, there's a reasonable body count & while I didn't love it I didn't hate it either.
Director Condon does OK, the whole film has a very muted colour scheme which started to get on my nerves after a while. There's an OK atmosphere although there's not much tension going on. There's a few gore scenes, a few people are killed by Candayman with his hook although they are all virtually exactly the same & there's a flashback where Candyman has his hand cut off.
Technically the film is good, it looks like it had some money behind it & it's certainly well made. The acting is alright but making this stuff seem believable isn't easy.
Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh is average at best, I neither loved nor hated it. It's OK but nothing special. Followed by the straight-to-video Candyman: Day of the Dead (1999).
Directed by Bill Condon this sequel to the original Candyman (1992) was alright but nothing that special. The script by Rand Ravich & Mark Kruger takes itself extremely seriously & moves along at a fairly sedate pace, there is just about enough going on to retain ones interest but there's nothing particularly memorable here. The character's are bland & forgettable, the dialogue the same & even though I saw it only a few hours ago I'm actually struggling to remember anything about it apart from a highly annoying DJ called Kingfisher who makes a regular appearance on the soundtrack. This one spends a fair amount of time on Candyman's background which isn't overly interesting I'm afraid. It plods along, Candyman occasionally turns up to spout some dull speeches & kill the odd person until the somewhat predictable ending where Annie defeats him. The script seems to be full of those annoying false scares as people sneak up on each other & grab their shoulder thereby scaring everyone, why can't people in these type's of films just announce their arrival properly? There's nothing wrong with this sort of cheap scare but it's used several times throughout this film & it grows tiresome. Having said that it's watchable enough I suppose, there's a reasonable body count & while I didn't love it I didn't hate it either.
Director Condon does OK, the whole film has a very muted colour scheme which started to get on my nerves after a while. There's an OK atmosphere although there's not much tension going on. There's a few gore scenes, a few people are killed by Candayman with his hook although they are all virtually exactly the same & there's a flashback where Candyman has his hand cut off.
Technically the film is good, it looks like it had some money behind it & it's certainly well made. The acting is alright but making this stuff seem believable isn't easy.
Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh is average at best, I neither loved nor hated it. It's OK but nothing special. Followed by the straight-to-video Candyman: Day of the Dead (1999).