Candyman 2 beats the crap out of the first one in my opinion! I liked the story a lot better and I just think it was well done. The first one is good too but the second has my favorite-vote. The third one was horrible, what I saw of it anyway. Did it even come out in theatres? I only saw it on HBO...and we all know a sequel that doesn't make it to theatres is bad news...
shareNo offence, but this was a god awful movie. I am offended that the makers tricked me out of the dollar i spent on it and the 90 minutes i spent watching it. I hate this movie with every fiber of my being.
shareI feel the first movie is superior but what I did like about the second film was the fact that they concentrated more upon the origins of the Candyman. I felt that the first movie lacked this important sub-plot, as we never really could visualise how the Candyman came into being. It really just concentrated upon the grim history of the Candyman's murderous reign without really giving any detail about the monster himself. When you think about it, Candyman is a very tragic figure.
To be honest, I do not think it's a terribly bad sequel. I have seen a lot, lot worse but it never really had the same intensity or fear factor as the original Candyman.
Now you almost made me want a Candyman prequel. Anyway, they did spend some time on his backstory in the first movie, and I could well imagine the tragedy that befell him.
shareThe second one bores me. The first terrified me as a kid.
shareThe first one is so much better in every possible way. This sequel is just plain awful and a disgrace to the first!
shareThe 1st one is way scarier and has an awesome plot but part 2 is my favorite.
I dont see why part 2 gets put down so much. Sequals like Candyman 3 ruin and whiz over the franchise. Candyman 2 didnt ruin the series, it added to it.
Not to mention Candyman 2 had some the best flashbacks ever.
CM 2 IS ABSOLUTELY AMAZING
shareThis one has the best beginning to a horror movie i've ever seen. Scared the crap out of me when I was a kid. I think I saw this one before the first and it stayed with me for months. I don't think I looked in the mirror for at least a week!
The first movie's great. Not all that much killing like the second one. We get to see him a lot more in this one which is cool.
The worst one of the trilogy and literally I think the worst film of any genre ever made, seriously, is the third. They changed everything the first two had told us. His origins, his relationships, AND HIS HOOK! I HATE that they changed his hook in the third one! It looked ridiculous and would have probably been quite hard to rip someone 'from groin to gullit' because of the angle of it. He just looked like an idiot. And Annie was completely changed in the 'flashbacks'. Ridiculous movie.
I love the first two. I can never decide which one I like best. It seems to change from week to week. I think this one for the gore, and the first for the maturity - that it's not a teen horror flick.
But who cares? They both kick ass. Great movies. Well done Clive Barker!
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who the *beep* honestly thinks that this or the film that follows is better than the original????
the first was by far the best, and the scariest. the original was all about the myth and legacy that was candyman and you can inturpert it by either it really was candyman or it was all in helen's head. that was great.
im not saying that this and part 3 were bad but by now everyone knew what they were watching and therfore not as scary, but why try to make the character a real killer and tell his backstory and bring his family into it, and have his chasing his own family???????????
doing that removes all possibilities that he was only a myth and that the original's either-or inturpertations are now irrelevant.
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I thought the first one was really boring... Maybe I should watch it again. I just hated it. I never saw this one or the 3rd. I just thought the first one was really boring...
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shareIndeed it was. Superior story, plot, acting, directing, sets, locations. And the voice-over by the Kingfish put the cherry on top. My only complaint: that constant Phil Glass moaning going on in the background. Why anyone thinks he's a great composer/artist is beyond me.
share"Superior story, plot, acting, directing, sets, locations."
Really? I think that all of those work better in the first one. The plot of the first one is really about an urban legend, the sequel is just a horror movie with a classic "monster" concept, pure math, a cliche. But... I'll be glad to listen to serious points from someone who likes the sequel better, not just blablabla.
Indeed what you said. The first was more of a black horror movie with black stereotypes. I understand where some fans are coming from, but it's like I tell Nightmare on Elm Street fans and Friday the 13th fans. Alice had what it took to fight Freddy and live to tell about it and The only thing that could catch a real horror fan about Friday The 13th is The Tommy Jarvis Trilogy. Case in point A REAL GOOD STORY. It had everything to drag a real intelligent person in, not some final destination thrill kill brainless idiot.
shareNo way, the first Candyman film is a classic! Granted that I haven't seen the third installation of the series, but this film is beaten in every way by the first Candyman film. I don't really care too much about the Candyman's personal back-story, so I'm glad the first one didn't go into depth with it; I don't need everything spelt out for me - my imagination can fill in the gaps, and that gives the Candyman character an enigmatic element which works well with horror characters in film.
This film also lacks the ethereal quality of the first, and has next to no atmosphere whatsoever. It's a shame the sequel couldn't follow on the success of the first film, as the Candyman series could've been an amazing horror franchise.
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I really like it too. It's the greatest film in the world, but it's still very entertaining. Part 3 was a joke.
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i like part 2 a lot, but i like 1 more.
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