I'm on the hunt for another series I can watch, and I have seen all 3 Candyman movies before but it was a long time ago. I also saw the remake/legacy sequel thing which was maybe a solid 2.5/5 and I'm not going to rewatch or review.
Candyman 3 brings back Tony Todd as the titular evil guy who appears when you say his name into a mirror 5 times. Caroline is his distant relative and an artist and he begins to haunt and kill around her once his name is spoken. He thinks he can use her to bring him back to life, and yeah we go from there.
"After the success of Freddy vs. Jason (2003), Lionsgate wanted to make a horror crossover of their own using the Candyman and the one other lucrative figure they had the rights to at the time: the Leprechaun. When the idea was pitched to Tony Todd, he immediately shot the whole thing down, believing it to be too ridiculous a gimmick to work and disrespectful to a character as tragic as the Candyman." -wikipediaI mean, given how Candyman 3 here came out, I wish they had made Candyman vs Leprechaun instead. At least it would've been something new.
Because it would be wrong to say this movie loses steam: it never has it to begin with. The main actress is not very compelling and the Tony Todd scenes are the only interesting parts, as well as the bee wrangling. Vaguely dark quotes go about this little investigation horror thing and basically you just sit there yawning waiting for the eventual Deus ex machina to arrive and defeat the baddies.
It's fine. Its nothing special. 2 stars.
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