Lauren's Top 100 Films

Lauren's Top 100 Horror Films of All Time

My "Top 100" list (ranked) is here:  https://www.imdb.com/list/ls085438338/ Runners Up (chronological) The Mummy (1932) Let...

Saturday, September 19, 2020

Candyman (1992)

In Candyman (1992), a lynched Black man turned hook-handed-murderer is pursued by a very pushy and problematic white grad student. Does this uncomfortable film say something meaningful about the horrors of racism? Or does it just exploit those same racist stereotypes, by using a Black man and grimy shots of the "ghetto" (their word) to inspire fear? If it were a less mediocre film, I'd spend more time musing on this...



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