A children's ghost story comes to terrifying life in this gut-wrenching thriller about a graduate student whose research into modern folklore summons the spirit of the dead. Helen Lyle laughs when she interviews college freshmen about their superstitions. But when she hears about Candyman, a slave spirit with a hook hand who is said to haunt Chicago's notorious Cabrini-Green housing project, she thinks she has a new twist for this thesis. Braving the gang-ridden territory to visit the site of a brutal murder, Helen arrogantly assumes Candyman can't really exist... until he appears, igniting a string of terrifying, tragic slayings. But the police don't believe in monsters, and they charge Helen with the grisly crimes. Only one person can set her free: CANDYMAN.

GENRE: Horror, Drama, Thriller
MPAA RATING: R
RUN TIME: 1h 38m
RELEASE DATE: September 11, 1992
STARRING: Virginia Madsen, Tony Todd, Xander Berkeley, Kasi Lemmons, Dejuan Guy
DIRECTOR(S): Bernard Rose
PRODUCER(S): Steve Golin, Alan Poul, Sigurjon Sighvatsson
WRITER(S): Bernard Rose, Clive Barker
STUDIO: TriStar Pictures