Candyman

Helen Lyle, an anthropology grad student in Chicago, studies how Cabrini-Green residents use the Candyman legend: say his name five times in the mirror and he shows up with a hook for a hand. She traces the story to a painter, the son of a slave, lynched in the late 1800s, and doesn't buy any of it. Then Candyman really appears. To keep the legend alive, he kills and leaves Helen as the suspect. Committed, she escapes and goes after baby Anthony, whom he took. Candyman tries to burn them both on a bonfire. Helen destroys him, saves the baby and dies. At the end, her husband says her name in the mirror, and Helen's spirit kills him with the hook.

1. Behind the scenesA thousand bucks a sting

   The film used more than 200,000 real honeybees. Tony Todd negotiated a $1,000 bonus per sting and took 23 of them.

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2. Behind the scenesVirginia Madsen, hypnotized

   To make the Candyman encounters feel off, Bernard Rose used hypnosis. A hypnotist set a keyword, and the director used it to put Madsen in a trance before takes.

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3. ReferenceFrom Liverpool to Chicago

   "The Forbidden" is set on a Liverpool housing estate and is about the English class system. Rose moved it to Chicago's Cabrini-Green, and the film became a story about race and class.

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