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- The entire film qualifies as this, due to its surreal, almost dreamlike atmosphere, which is more in line with something you would see in a film by Dario Argento or David Lynch or Stanley Kubrick than a Slasher Movie. Helen opening the toilet to see that it's filled to the brim with bugs is a notable example.
- Candyman himself (obviously pictured above). Everything about him, from his blood-encrusted hook for a hand, to his stalker-like obsession with Helen, to Tony Todd's almost inhuman gravelly voice, make for one of the most iconic (and terrifying) villains in the horror genre.
- The scene near the end where he opens his trench coat, revealing his body to be nothing more than a skeleton covered in the bees that killed him.
- His backstory is absolutely horrific. He was once an artist until a racist lynch mob cut off his arm with a rusty saw and replaced it with a hook, before being covered in honey and stung to death by an ungodly number of bees. And the reason they lynched him? Because he was having a relationship with a rich white man's daughter — a relationship only she approved, but not her father.
- The Cabrini Green projects almost look like a post-apocalyptic hellscape in certain shots. The apartment where Ruthie Jean's murder occurred looks more like a torture chamber than an actual apartment.
- Look at how many cops are required to go in and arrest Helen. That's how many cops needed to be on the site to actually make any arrest for fear of being overwhelmed.
- Jake's gruesome retelling of a mentally disabled boy who was castrated in a park bathroom by Candyman is the worst fear that a parent can experience: his mother sent him to the bathroom in the park across where she was shopping, next thing she knew she heard her son crying out for help that there was a strange, big man there, she and others rush to help him, and find him clutching his crotch in pain while lying in a pool of his own blood and crying for his mother. The scene ends on a static shot of the bloody toilet, before it cuts away.
- The ending, revealing that Helen has become an urban legend just like Candyman.
- And who becomes Helen’s first victim? Trevor. Rather brutally. Not that he didn’t have it coming...
- The mural of Candyman's screaming face, with the door in the mouth, which is one of the holdovers from the original Clive Barker short story.
- The ending to the original short story: the baby is horribly killed, Helen is trapped in the bonfire at the end when she attempts to retrieve the baby's corpse so she can prove that the inhabitants of the slum are covering for the killer, and the story ends just as she's about to burn to death, with Candyman holding her in his arms, knowing she'll be part of his legend now too as one of his victims.
- "Sweets for the sweet..."
