Candyman is a 1992 American horror film written and directed by Bernard Rose, based on the short story "The Forbidden" by Clive Barker, though the film's scenario is switched from England to the Cabrini–Green public housing development on Chicago's Near North Side. It stars Virginia Madsen, Tony Todd, and Xander Berkeley. The plot follows a graduate student (Madsen) completing a thesis on urban legends who encounters the legend of "Candyman" (Todd), an artist and son of a slave who had had his hand severed and was then murdered.
Candyman spawned two sequels, Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh, and Candyman 3: Day of the Dead.
Helen Lyle, a Chicago graduate student who is researching urban legends, hears of a local legend known as the Candyman. The legend claims that Candyman can be summoned by saying his name five times while facing a mirror, whereupon he will murder the summoner with a hook jammed in the bloody stump of his right arm. She later runs into two cleaning ladies who tell her about the murder of a woman named Ruthie Jean who called the Candyman in her bathroom mirror and was murdered with a hook by Candyman. Helen then finds out that 25 other murders in the area are related to Ruthie Jean. Later that evening, Helen and her friend Bernadette Walsh, skeptical of Candyman's existence, call Candyman's name into the mirror in Helen's bathroom. Nothing happens.
Attention, all the ladies
The Candyman is on the prowl
And for those that wanna get busy
You've gots to speak up now
This rhyme, this time
Is one of a kind
Blowing your mind
Like only the Candyman can
Like a heavyweight champion
Knocking em out
Another bout without a doubt
Once again you can scream and shout
When I rock, the belles
Yell out my name
This is what you've been missing
Listen to my heart beat
While I'm whispering
I know you're suffering
So sweet
A Candyman sweet nothings
Hugging and tugging and rubbing
Loving it all, having a ball
All ya'll girlies next to me
Talking sex to me
We can't do that yet
But I bet we'll chill
Candyman, tell em the truth
We'll still end up knocking the boots
Ooh, boy, I love you so
Never, ever, ever gonna let you go
Once I get my hands on you
At each and every show
There's this groupie
Honest knows what
She wants to do to me
She knows my name
Knows every rap routine
But how'd she get in my limousine
Don't act a fool, don't drool
I'm just a performer
I was cool but the room got warmer
Norma cornered me in
Her and a friend named Lynn
Then they checked me in
To the Holiday Inn
I didn't let'em win
Said my pockets was thin
She blew me a kiss
I knew she wasn't new to this
I didn't want to
But the devil made me do it
To the tic-toc, you don't stop
We knock boots til six o'clock
As we lay all night long
And early in the morning
She sang this song
Ooh, boy, I love you so
Never, ever, ever gonna let you go
Once I get my hands on you
Ooh, boy, I love you so
Never, ever, ever gonna let you go
I hope you feel the same way too
(Girl, I do)
Tunnel of love is what I'm entering
When I mention it, you're surrending
Giving it up like a good girl has to
Living it up
Eventually you ask to stay
You're gonna pay for this
Just rest your breasts on my chest
Yes, I'm impressed
With the way you cold love me down
I don't wanna sit down
I just wanna get down
I'm on the ground, down on my knees
Like James Brown singing Please, Please
Round two, I'm down to
Do what it takes to make you
Understand I'm the Candyman
And I melt in your mouth
Not in your hands
Hard as rock, yes
I'm no sucka
The boots I knock
Make me one bad mother...
Knocking while I'm hip-hopping
Many people say my lyrics are shocking
Just because of the simple subject
Everyone should love this
Cause everybody does it
Whether they admit it
Or if they deny it
You betta keep quiet or else you
Might have to see a few skeletons
But, girl, that's irrevelent
Break out the bottle of Austi Spumante
Pop off the top and rock with my posse
Fila Al, Big Dill, and D Fly
We ask the questions
You give the reply
MC Chip, Big Rob and Bud
Rocking on the waterbed
Knocking on the rug
I'm just playing
What I'm saying ain't I'll