Candyman (1992)

The Candyman trailer is for Bernard Rose's 1992 horror film based on a Clive Barker short story, moved to Chicago. Helen Lyle, played by Virginia Madsen, is a graduate student researching urban legends. She becomes fascinated by the story of the Candyman, a hook-handed ghost said to appear and kill anyone who says his name five times in a mirror. Her research takes her to the Cabrini-Green housing project, where residents believe he is real. Skeptical, Helen says the name. Then the Candyman, played by Tony Todd, appears, the son of a formerly enslaved man who was murdered by a lynch mob, and people around her start dying. Philip Glass wrote the haunting score. A sequel-reboot came in 2021. It is available on 4K, Blu-ray and digital.