History Trivia / Candyman

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: The film became this with the Cabrini Green housing project, which has since been demolished, which the [[Film/Candyman2020 2021 film]] will address to.

* TroubledProduction: In order to ensure the film crew's safety filming the Cabrini-Green exterior scenes, various local gang members had to be promised roles as extras in exchange for the crew's safety. However, a sniper round took out one of the windows on the production van on the last day. Also, there were no practical special effects for the bee scenes, including the scene where bees flew out of Creator/TonyTodd's mouth. And to top it off, Creator/VirginiaMadsen was extremely allergic to bees, so the production crew had to go out of their way to make certain ambulances were on standby at all times
* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: The film became this with the Cabrini Green housing project, which has since been demolished, which the [[Film/Candyman2020 2020 film]] will address to.

* TroubledProduction: In order to ensure the film crew's safety filming the Cabrini-Green exterior scenes, various local gang members had to be promised roles as extras in exchange for the crew's safety. However, a sniper round took out one of the windows on the production van on the last day. Also, there were no practical special effects for the bee scenes, including the scene where bees flew out of Tony Todd's mouth. And to top it off, Virginia Madsen was extremely allergic to bees, so the production crew had to go out of their way to make certain ambulances were on standby at all times

** Virginia Madsen was originally set to play Bernadette until the actress who was set to play Helen became pregnant. Creator/SandraBullock was also considered for the role of Helen.

* OldShame: Tony Todd has admitted that the third film is his least favorite one (although he did enjoy working with Lupe).

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Coupled with WTHCastingAgency in that the original choice for the role of Candyman was Creator/EddieMurphy, of all people.

* OldShame: Tony Todd says that the third film is his least favorite one--but he did enjoy working with Lupe.

** Virginia Madsen was originally set to play Bernadette until the actress who was set to play Helen became pregnant. Creator/Sandra Bullock was also considered for the role of Helen.

** Creator/SandraBullock was also the original choice for Helen.

* OldShame: Tony Todd says that the third entry is his least favorite one--although he admits that he enjoyed working with Lupe.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Coupled with WTHCastingAgency in that the original choice for the role of Candyman was Creator/EddieMurph, of all people.

* OldShame: Tony Todd says that the third entry is his least favorite one, but that he did enjoy working with Lupe.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Coupled with WTHCastingAgency in that the original choice for the Candyman role was Creator/EddieMurphy.

* HeyItsThatGuy:
** Ted Raimi appears in the beginning of the first film for all of a minute.
** And the eponymous Candyman went on to play [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration Worf]]'s brother as well as [[Film/{{Transformers}} The Fallen]] and [[Series/TwentyFour General Juma]].

* HeyItsThatGuy: Ted Raimi appears in the beginning of the first film for all of a minute.

* StarMakingRole: Creator/TonyTodd had some notable roles before (most notably in ''Film/{{Platoon}}'' and the remake of ''Film/NightOfTheLivingDead1990''), but this was the film that made him a horror icon.

* StarMakingRole: Creator/TonyTodd had some notable roles before (most notably in ''Film/{{Platoon}}'' and the remake of ''Film/NightOfTheLivingDead''), but this was the film that made him a horror icon.

* EnforcedMethodActing: According to this [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGZhRqN-f8Y video]], Virginia Madsen was hypnotized and given a TriggerPhrase on set when ever filmming the scenes her character encountered Candyman. She became increasingly uncomfortable with it and eventually had it removed.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Coupled with WhatTheHellCastingAgency in that the original choice for the Candyman role was Creator/EddieMurphy.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Coupled with WhatTheHellCastingAgency in that the original choice for the Candyman role was EddieMurphy.

** And the eponymous Candyman went on to play [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration Worf]]'s brother as well as [[Film/{{Transformers}} The Fallen]] and [[Series/TwentyFour General Juma]].

** And the eponymous Candyman went on to play [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration Worf]]'s brother as well as [[Film/{{Transformers}} The Fallen]] and [[TwentyFour General Juma]].

** And the eponymous Candyman went on to play [[StarTrekTNG Worf]]'s brother as well as [[Film/Transformers The Fallen]] and [[TwentyFour General Juma]].

** And the eponymous candyman went on to play [[StarTrekTNG Worf]]'s brother as well as [[TransformersRevengeOfTheFallen The Fallen]] and [[{{twentyfour}} General Juma]].

** And the eponymous candyman went on to play [[StarTrekTNG Worf]]'s brother as well as [[TransformersRevengeOfTheFallen The Fallen]].