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A truely tragic villain

posted 19 years ago by DeRo64
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Yes, I know that Jason Voorhees was tormented at camp before drowning in the lake, but that is incomparable to the pain and suffering that Daniel Robitaille endured before he became the Candyman. As scary and devious as he is, I actually feel sorry for the guy ... even if he isn't real.

Imagine having your hand cut off, your body smothered in beehive honey, and then being stung to death, all for loving a woman of another race. If I were the Candyman, I probably wouldn't take my anger out on my decendants, but I would be pissed off. I'd probably go back in time and destroy those who destroyed me.

[–] SyxxHallNash 19 years ago

Candyman became a reflection of the hatred the people that killed him had. I don't think he had a lot of choice in going back in time.

[–] DeRo64 19 years ago

You're right.
It was just a thought.

[–] luciusfox 19 years ago

I do think the Candyman is better thought out than Jason Vorhees.

[–] Alex_Is_Legend 19 years ago

Yeah, his background is more original. I wouldn't expect anything less from Clive Barker.

[–] WarpedRecord 18 years ago

The reason I love the Candyman films so much is that they explore the racial fears and injustices so rampant in society. Most horror films are just cheap thrills and special effects. Candyman goes much deeper than that, to the ghosts that haunt our consciences.

[–] sean_currie7 18 years ago

I really found the scene where the townsfolk torture Candyman to be pretty unsettling. There is such an element of cruelness to it that it is pretty upsetting. Candyman almost becomes a sort of revenge figure.

[–] dnttreadonme_900 18 years ago

I think what makes it more scary and horrifying is the fact that things like that (notice I said "like") happened back then. Goes to show you how evil people can be.

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[–] msnell10 16 years ago

I always wondered why he didn't just torment the descendents of those townspeople, not his own family.

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[–] DarcyBrandon 15 years ago

^ I always wondered the same thing. I mean, why is he so mad at his own family. It's not their fault that they weren't told the truth.

[–] Dixie_84 18 years ago

I wonder how long it took him to come back...
I know the man at the beginning says about it beginning a few century's ago. But I wonder how long after his torture that he returned.

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[–] DetRosaDiaz 17 years ago

I wonder, was I alone in crying when Candyman had her witness what happened to him?

[–] DeRo64 17 years ago

I don't think I cried, but I thought it was pretty sad.

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[–] CrowGoyer 16 years ago

for years I couldn't watch that scene - I was in sixth grade when I saw glimpses of it for the first time and had to turn that channel . . . it bothered me, and still does. I finally watched it when I was a sophmore in college and . . . I did cry

[–] Strazdamonas 16 years ago

I did not cired but the scene was indeed sad.

[–] bwray12 16 years ago

I think he's a total retard anyway. He didn't need to murder innocent people, cops no less. And why are all of the victims white?

[–] Strazdamonas 16 years ago

Maybe their white because they hired white actors? Maybe its a concidence?

[–] MydnightRose 15 years ago

I only saw Candyman when I was 7 and I ran out on that one. I have now just found out that Farewell to the Flesh explains why he became this monster. The torture scene in itself, which I believe was discussed in the first one, is so horrofying to think about. I dont know if its the act itself or the idea that those men did that to him. And the other OP is right things like that did happen to black men who were lynched and sometimes women. I remember reading that some of the men were castrated and burned alive. There are some who even believe that the incident in Jasper Texas witht he black man being dragged to death, his name escapes me, was a modern lynching.

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[–] andyroo_is 15 years ago

Bernadette wasnt white.