Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh [1995]

Country of Origin: USA
Year of Production: 1995
Running Times: 93 mins
Length: 2630 metres
Format: colour
Ratio:
Sound: Dolby Digital

CREDITS

PRODUCTION
Production Companies: Gramercy Pictures   PolyGram Filmed Entertainment presents a Propaganda Films production   A Bill Condon film
Copyright: © 1995 Polygram Film Productions B.V.
Executive Producer: Clive Barker
Supervising Producer: Tim Clawson
Produced by: Sigurjon Sighvatsson, Gregg Fienberg
Associate Producer: Anna C. Miller
Unit Production Manager: Gregg D. Fienberg
Production Coordinator: Edith Leblanc

SCRIPT
Screenplay by: Rand Ravich and Mark Kruger
Story by: Clive Barker

DIRECTION
Directed by: Bill Condon
1st Assistant Director: Mary Ellen Woods
2nd Assistant Directors: Jeff Shiffman, Lee H. Grant

PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Tobias A. Schliessler
Steadicam Operator: David Luckenbach
Wescam Camera Technician: David Norris
2nd Assistant Camera: Anthony Dominici
Key Grip: Anthony T. Marra II
Colour Timer: David Bryden
Lab: DeLuxe

EDITING AND POST PRODUCTION
Edited by: Virginia Katz
1st Assistant Film Editor: Michael Hall
Assistant Film Editors: Debra Bard, Ewa Zbroniec, Tom McMurtry
Post Production Supervisor: Helene Mulholland

MUSIC
Music by: Philip Glass
Songs: Steve Holley, Jon Paris [Blue Mood]; Eddie Batos [Postman]; Danny Louis [I'll See You Somewhere By and By]
Songs Performed By: Steve Holley, Jon Paris [Blue Mood]; Eddie Batos [Postman]
Music Supervisors: Don Christensen, Jim Keller
Music Editor: Lori Eschler

SOUND
Sound Designer: Ben Wilkins
Sound Mixer: Walter Hoylman
Sound Re-Recording Mixers: Gary Bourgeois, Brad Sherman
Supervising Sound Editor: Jon Johnson
Assistant Sound Editor: Rob Nokes
Supervising Dialogue Editor: Bruce Stubblefield
Dialogue Editors: Patricio Libenson, Greg Cook, Stewart Nelson
ADR Mixer: Dean Drabin
ADR Editor: Don Sylvester
Sound Effects Editors: Guy Tsujimoto, Keith Bilderbeck
Foley Artists: Joanie Rowe, Sean Rowe
Foley Editor: Solange Schwalbe
Assistant Foley Editor: Trip Brock

MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Key Make Up: Sheri P. Short
Key Hair: Andre Blaise
Costume Designer: Bruce Finlayson
Costume Supervisor: Charlene Amateau

SPECIAL MAKE UP EFFECTS
Special Make Up Effects Department Head: Douglas J. White
Special Make Up Effects: Allan A. Apone, Steve Fink

SPECIAL EFFECTS
Special Effects Supervisor: John Hartigan
Special Effects Foreman: Gary L. King
Special Effects: Peter Blinn
Special Effects Assistant: Bill Cochran

VISUAL EFFECTS
Visual Effects Executive Producer: Andrew Naud
Visual Effects Creative Supervisor: John P. Mesa
CGI Animator: Stevan Del George
Visual Effects Camera: Peter Juneau, Marcus Tate
Miniature Construction: Michael Walters

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Production Designer: Barry Robison
Art Director: Dawn Snyder Stebler
Set Designers: Robert Goldstein, Stephanie J. Gordon, Regina Lee Herve
Set Decorator: Suzette Sheets
On Set Dresser: Teusa Koiwai
Property Master: Doug Lewis
Assistant Property Masters: Brent David Mannon, Christine Hughen
Carpenter: Gregory Lynch Jr
Scenic: Gail Briant
Art Department Coordinator: Kirsten Anderson
Storyboard Artists: Janet Kusnick, Mike Swift

MISCELLANEOUS
Production Assistant: Adam Cook
Transportation Coordinators: Greg Van Dyke, Steve Boyd
Aerial Coordinator: Robert 'Bobby Z' Zajonc
Bee Wrangler: Norman E. Gary
Assistant Bee Wrangler: Melvin G. Greenleaf
Bird Wrangler: Bob Bloch
Assistant Bird Wrangler: Debbie Jacobson
Unit Publicist: Brian Berkenfeld

LOCATIONS
Locations: Los Angeles, California, USA; New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Location Manager: Julie Duvic

STUNTS
Stunt Coordinator: William Washington
Stunts: Pete Antico, Alisa Christensen, Harry H. Harris III, Melvin Jones, Lane Leavitt, Fred Lerner, Carl Milinac, Benny Moore, John Robotham, Marcus Salgado, Monty L. Simons, Matthew Taylor
Stunt Rigger: Carl Milinac

CASTING
Casting by: Carol Lewis
Extras Casting Assistant: David Rome
ADR Voice Casting: Leigh French

CAST
Tony Todd [Candyman]
Kelly Rowan [Annie Tarrant]
William O'Leary [Ethan Tarrant]
Bill Nunn [Reverend Ellis]
Matt Clark [Honore Thibideaux]
David Gianopoulos [Detective Ray Levesque]
Fay Hauser [Pam Carver]
Joshua Gibran Mayweather [Matthew Ellis]
Michael Culkin [Phillip Purcell]

With
Timothy Carhart as Paul McKeever

And
Veronica Cartwright as Octavia

Caroline Barclay [Caroline Sullivan]
Michael Bergeron [Coleman Tarrant]
Brianna Blanchard [young Caroline McKeever]
Clotiel Bordeltier [Liz]
Russell Buchanan [voice of Kingfisher]
Nate Bynum [reporter]
Sandy Byrd [woman in bookstore]
Eric Cadora [man in bookstore]
Carl Ciarfalio [bartender]
Stephen P. Dunn [thug]
Daniel Dupont [reporter]
Glen Gomez [Kingfish]
Steven Hartman [young boy]
Margaret Howell [Clara]
Ralph Joseph [Mr Jeffries]
Erin Labranche [little girl doctor]
Carl Leblanc [little boy king]
George Lemore [Drew]
Maria Mason [befuddled teacher]
Monica L. Monica [reporter]
Brian Joseph Moore [thug]
Randy Oglesby [Heyward Sullivan]
Steve Picerni [police guard]
Eric Pierson [Ben]
Terrence Rosemore [suspicious man at Matthew's house]
Amy Ryder [hostile woman at Cabrini Green]
Patricia Sansone [woman in bookstore]
Hunt Scarritt [scraggly vagrant]
Carol Sutton [angry woman at Matthew's house]

Stand In For Tony Todd: Isiah Lyons

SUMMARY

The Candyman moves to New Orleans and is soon up to murderous old ways again, this time targeting a young school teacher whose father has already been killed by the Candyman.

AVAILABILITY

Australia
DVD Distributors: Umbrella Entertainment

Brazil
Video Distributors: Top Tape

Japan
Video Distributors: SPO Inc

Spain
Theatrical Distributors: Sogepaq Distribución S.A.

USA
Theatrical Distributors: Gramercy Pictures
Video Distributors: MGM; PolyGram Video

CENSORSHIP HISTORY

Australia
Rating: M

Finland
Rating: K-16

Germany
Rating: 18

Iceland
Rating: 16

Norway
Rating: 18

Spain
Rating: 18

UK
Rating: 18

USA
Rating: R [for violence and gore, and for some sexuality and language]

TIMELINE

1995
March
17: USA - theatrical release

June
3: Netherlands - theatrical release

1995
June
16: Denmark - theatrical release
23: Spain - theatrical release

August
9: France - theatrical release

November
17: UK - theatrical release

1997
January
Day Unknown: Germany - video release

2006
January
16: UK - television broadcast [on Sky Movies 3]
29: UK - television broadcast [on Sky Movies 9]

POSTER TAGS

Evil comes when you call his name.

Dare you say his name 5 times...again!

ALTERNATIVE TITLES

Assassino das Trevas - Portuguese title
Candyman 2 - A Vingança - Brazilian title
Candyman 2 - Die Blutrache - German title
Candyman 2 - French / French Canadian title
Candyman 2: Adiós a la carne - Spanish title
Candyman II - Inferno nello specchio - Italian title
Candyman II: Farewell to the Flesh
Kampókéz 2. - Hungarian title

LINKS

SEQUEL TO
Candyman [1992]

SEQUEL
Candyman: Day of the Dead [1999]

REFERENCES

MAGAZINES

Empire December 1995 p.44 [UK]
review [by Mark Salisbury]

Film Review January 1996 p.22 [UK]
review [by David Miller]

FilmMagasinet December 1995 / January 1996 p.79 [Norway]
review [by Kathrine Kristiansen]

KEYWORDS

bees, ghosts, hooks, jails, mardi gras, new orleans, sequels, serial killers, showers, slashers, slavery, swamps

Last Updated: 6 March, 2007