Four stories. "The Forbidden" is where Candyman begins: student Helen visits the Spector Street estate to photograph graffiti for her thesis and finds walls covered in references to a figure the residents fear, a man with a hook for a hand. "The Madonna" follows a developer trying to redo an old public pool and the backer who gets obsessed with a girl he glimpses inside. In "Babel's Children", a woman drives down an unmarked road on a Greek island and ends up locked away by armed monks. And "In the Flesh" is set in Pentonville prison, where a young inmate hunts for the grave of his hanged grandfather.
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ChangeClass became race
"The Forbidden" is set on a Liverpool estate and is about class. The 1992 Candyman moves to Chicago's Cabrini-Green and puts race at the center.
In the story, Helen photographs the graffiti of the Spector Street estate for her thesis. In the film, Helen Lyle is an anthropology grad student studying urban legends.
In the story, Candyman is a feared figure with bees, a hook and a cotton-candy smell. The film gives him a name and a past: Daniel Robitaille, a painter murdered by racists.
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