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Greetings and welcome back to Horror Business. We have one awesome episode in store for you guys. In this episode we’re talking about 1992’s Candyman and 1995’s Candyman: Farewell To The Flesh.

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We start by somehow talking about Gambit from X-Men for way too long. We then briefly discuss what we’ve done lately involving horror. Liam talks about watching Death Line and Shirley, and Justin talks about watching the Netflix original Our House.

Up first is Candyman. We begin by talking the background of the film, including the director’s filmography and the film being based on a Clive Barker short story. We briefly discuss how the short story is typical Clive Barker fare while the film is decidedly very un-Clive Barkery. We dive deep into what takes up most of our discussion, which is that we both unabashedly love this film despite it being a rather tone deaf and at times problematic film.

We talk about how our personal histories with the Candyman franchise. Liam marvels at how good the film is, given it’s a movie that takes place in “the hood” based on a short story written by a lily-white British man and has some corny overtones. Justin talks about how the film leans heavily into simple imagery to conjure up dread and fear and succeeds wildly, and how despite film being well made and gorgeous it is a mess thematically. We talk about the performance of Tony Todd and how that performance is so remarkable people tend to forget he’s actually playing a villain.

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