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Come see Candyman (1992) presented on 35mm film on the big screen in L3!

Is Candyman the early 90s’ most iconic horror? Betteridge’s Law be damned, it’s definitely up there.

Famous for its outstanding Philip Glass score, Tony Todd’s booming voice and – of course – leaving a whole generation terrified by the idea of uttering the eponymous Candyman’s name five times into a mirror, this Hollywood popcorn movie plays it… a little less straightforwardly than you might expect.

Inspired by Clive Barker’s (yes, that Clive Barker) short story The Forbidden, director Bernard Rose transplants Barker’s take on the British class system from Liverpool into Chicago’s now-demolished Cabrini–Green housing development. Properly unsettling stuff and well-deserving of the many, many words that have been said about it. And, because we’re us – of course, it’s on a special archive 35mm film print from the collections of the National Science and Media Museum (thanks Bex!).

Fun fact: the UK 35mm prints of this film contain a few more gory shots that were cut from the US cinema release and from most digital copies released since. Enjoy! [Kieran Hall]

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