Stars: Tony Todd, Kelly Rowan, Timothy Carhart, Veronica Cartwright

Director: Bill Condon

Summary: During the 1890's a black slave who falls in love with a white girl is tortured by a lynch mob who smear him with honey and cover him in bees, cut-off his hand and leave him for dead. And so the Candyman legend is born. In present day New Orleans the female descendant of the Candyman's last love is about to meet her fate...

The mythical hook-handed Candyman (Tony Todd) returns in this sequel set in New Orleans' French Quarter during Mardi Gras. The Tarrants are an old-money family. When the father succumbs to the wicked vengeance of the mythical killer, daughter Annie (Kelly Rowan) studies everything she can about the legend of Candyman to empower herself so that she can defeat his undead evil.

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A stylish sequel though inferior to its classic predecessor, Bill Condon's Candyman 2: Farewell to the Fleshdeepens our knowledge of what made the murdered Daniel Robitaille turn into the monster that haunts dreams and mirrors. But some of it is still pretty routine: schoolteacher Annie takes a long time to connect her family's plantation-owning past and her own artistic talent with the legend, and is far too ready to say the Candyman's name five times in a mirror to debunk her pupils' fears.

The setting--New Orleans in Carnival time with a disc jockey whimsically reminding us that Carnival is the last farewell to pleasure before the rigours of Lent--and the atmospheric score by Philip Glass give the film some of its class. Tony Todd, who returns as the Candyman, gives the monstrous spectre with a hook for a hand a quiet dignity and sadness which impresses. His life was torn agonisingly from him and he is mad for vengeance, yet he has an artistic temperament and loved Annie's kinswoman Caroline. Condon captures an attractive elegiac tone in much of this, as well as moments of brutal horror.

On the DVD:Candyman 2is presented in widescreen 1.78:1; there is an attractive crispness to the picture which does real justice to the film's impressive sense of place. The music score comes across well in Dolby Digital stereo. There is a theatrical trailer, but no other features. --Roz Kaveney

Aspect Ratio:	1.78 Wide Screen, 16:9 Wide Screen
Main Language:	English
Region:	Region 2
Special Features:	Original Theatrical Trailer, Interactive Menu, Chapter Selection
Subtitles:	Dutch, French, Polish, Spanish
Year:	1995
Release Date:	October 21, 2002
Runtime:	90 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	22929 D V D
Keywords:	General, Flesh, Farewell, Horror, Occult, Candyman, Sci, Fi
Genre:	Horror/Occult