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''Candyman'' is a 1992 American horror film written and directed by Bernard Rose, based on the short story "The Forbidden" by Clive Barker, though the film's scenario is switched from England to the Cabrini–Green public housing development on Chicago's Near North Side. It stars Virginia Madsen, Tony Todd, and Xander Berkeley. The plot follows a graduate student (Madsen) completing a thesis on urban legends who encounters the legend of "Candyman" (Todd), an artist and son of a slave who had had his hand severed and been murdered. ''Candyman'' spawned two sequels, ''Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh'', and ''Candyman 3: Day of the Dead''. ==Plot== Helen Lyle, a Chicago graduate student who is researching urban legends, learns of a local legend known as the Candyman. The legend claims that Candyman can be summoned by saying his name five times while facing a mirror, whereupon he will murder the summoner with his hook-hand. Later that evening, Helen and her friend Bernadette, skeptical of Candyman's existence, call Candyman's name into the mirror in Helen's bathroom. Nothing happens. Helen discovers that Candyman was the son of a slave who became prosperous after developing a system for mass-producing shoes during the Civil War. He grew up in polite society and became a well-known artist, sought after for his talent in producing portraits. After falling in love with, and fathering a child with, a white woman, Candyman was set upon by a lynch mob hired by his lover's father; they cut off his painting hand and replaced it with a hook. He was smeared with honey stolen from an apiary, prompting the locals to chant "Candyman" as bees stung him to death. Helen and Bernadette enter the notorious gang-ridden Cabrini-Green housing project, the site of a recent unsolved murder linked to Candyman. There, they meet Anne-Marie McCoy, one of the residents, and a young boy named Jake, who tells her the disturbing story of a child who was castrated in a public restroom by Candyman. While Helen explores the run-down restroom, she is attacked by a gang leader that carries a hook and has taken the Candyman moniker as his own in order to enhance his "street cred". Helen survives the assault, and is able to identify her attacker to the police. Helen later faces the real Candyman, who explains that since Helen has been telling people he is just a legend, he must prove he exists. Helen blacks out and wakes up in Anne-Marie's apartment, covered in blood. Anne-Marie, whose Rottweiler has been decapitated and has found her baby missing, attacks Helen; in the midst of defending herself, the police arrest Helen. Trevor, Helen's husband, bails her out of jail, but Candyman appears to Helen again and cuts her neck, causing her to bleed to the point of unconsciousness. Bernadette appears at the apartment and is murdered by Candyman. Helen is sedated and placed in a psychiatric hospital. After a month's stay at the hospital, a psychologist interviews Helen in preparation for her upcoming trial. While restrained, Helen attempts to prove her innocence by calling Candyman. Candyman appears and murders the psychologist, and allows Helen to escape. She briefly confronts Trevor, but he is now living with one of his female students. Helen then flees to Cabrini–Green to confront Candyman and locate Anne-Marie's still-missing infant. In the building's attic, she finds a message implying that she is the reincarnation of Candyman's lover. She finds Candyman, who opens his coat to reveal a ribcage wreathed in bees. Candyman promises to release the baby if Helen helps him incite fear among the residents. However, in order to feed his own legend, Candyman reneges and attempts to immolate them all in a community bonfire when it is lit by Cabrini-Green's residents. Helen rescues the baby while Candyman is vanquished in the fire, but is fatally burned. The residents, including Anne-Marie and Jake, pay their respects at her funeral. Afterwards, Trevor stands before a mirror in the bathroom of their former apartment, where he chants Helen's name in grief. As a result, Helen's vengeful spirit is summoned and kills Trevor with Candyman's hook. In Cabrini-Green, a painting of Helen with her hair ablaze on a wall shows that she has now entered folklore. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Candyman (film)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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