Candyman (1992)

Country of Origin: USA
Year of Production: 1992
Running Times: 99 mins
Format: colour     35mm
Ratio: 1.37:1 (negative ratio)     1.85:1 (intended ratio)
Sound: Dolby SR

CREDITS

PRODUCTION
Production Companies: PolyGram Filmed Entertainment/Propaganda Films
Executive in Charge of Production: Tim Clawson
Executive Producer: Clive Barker
Producers: Alan Poul, Sigurjon Sighvatsson, Steve Golin
Line Producer: Gregory Goodman
Production Supervisor: Chicago: Billy Higgins
Unit Production Manager: Gregory Cundiff
Unit Manager (Chicago): Charlene Norman
Production Coordinators: Michelle Colbert, Elaine Fiona Ferguson
Production Coordinator (Chicago): Lisa Barratt
Assistant Coordinator: Elena J. Robinson

SCRIPT
Script: Bernard Rose
Story: The Forbidden by Clive Barker
Script Consultant: Lynn Weimer

DIRECTION
Director: Bernard Rose
1st Assistant Director: Thomas Patrick Smith
2nd Assistant Directors: Suzanne L. Haasis, Marcei A. Brubaker
2nd 2nd Assistant Directors: Peggy Hughes, David Riebel

PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Anthony B. Richmond
Steadicam Operators: Randy Nolen, Kirk Gardner
Additional Camera Operator: Michael Ferris
1st Assistant Camera: Rory Knepp
2nd Assistant Camera: David White
1st Assistant Camera Steadicam: Marie Pedersen
Loader: Timberlake Lewis
Camera Loader (Chicago): Gary Wills
Gaffer: Russ Lyster
Electricians: Jeff De La Rosa, Mike Sudmeier, Tim Silverberg
Best Boy Electrics: Don Tomei, Huston Beaumont
Key Grips: Doug Dole, Michael Retzer
Grips: Paul Wilkowsky, Peter McAdams
Best Boy Grips: Bill Riley, Ellis M. James
Dolly Grips: Peter Aranda, Robert Forrest
Stills: Mark Fellman
Gyrosphere Operator: David Nowel
Gyrosphere Technician: Richard Brooks Burton
Video Playback: Steve Irwin
Video Assistant: Paul Sterling
Film Timer: William Pine
Cameras and Lenses: Panavision
Lab: DeLuxe

EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Editor: Dan Rae
1st Assistant Editor: Michelle Pazer
2nd Assistant Editor: Camille Bourque
Apprentice Editors: Scott Riddle, Vanessa Brahms
Post Production Supervisor: Scott Carleton
Post Production Coordinator: Glenn Kiser
Negative Cutting: Alter Image Inc

MUSIC
Music: Philip Glass
Music Arranger/Conductor: Michael Riesman
Synclavier Operator: Ben Wilkins
Vocal Performance: The Western Wind Vocal Ensemble
Song: Vangelis and Jon Anderson (State of Independence)
Song Performed By: Moodswings with Chrissie Hynde (State of Independence);
Executive Producer - Music: Rory Johnston
Musical Score Producer: Kurt Munkacsi for Euphorbia Productions Ltd
Administration: Sharon Ainsberg
Engineers: Laura Fried, Anne Pope

SOUND
Sound Supervisors: Chuck Smith, Leonard Marcel, Nigel Holland
Sound Designer: Nigel Holland
Sound Recordist: Greg Steele
Sound Mixer: Reinhard Stergar
Boom Operator: Robert Polich
2nd Boom Operator: Oliver Euckner
Sound Engineers: Anne Pope, Laura Fried
Sound Re-Recording Mixers: Ken S. Polk, Michael Barry
Assistant Sound Editors: Flavia Amon, Hayden Clement
Dialogue Editor: Peter S. Carlstedt
Assistant Dialogue Editor: Jeremy Pitts
ADR Recordist: Allan Bond
ADR Mixers: Charleen Richards, Scott Ganary
Foley Artists: Ellen Heuer, Joan Rowe, Sean Rowe
Foley Recordist: Tami Treadwell
Foley Mixer: Tommy Goodwin
Assistant Foley Editor: David Bartholoman
Machine Operator: Mark Harris
Dolby Stereo Sound Consultant: Steve F.B. Smith
Post Production Sound Services: Skywalker Sound
Recorded At: Looking Glass Studios Music

COSTUMES AND MAKE-UP
Key Make Up: Michelle Bühler
Key Hair: Erma Kent
Assistant Make Up/Hair: Denise Della Valle
Costume Designer: Leonard Pollack
Assistant Costume Designer: Gail McMullen
Wardrobe Supervisor: Julia Schklair
Wardrobe Lead (Chicago): Sue Kaufman

SPECIAL MAKE-UP EFFECTS
Special Make Up Effects Supervisor: Gary J. Tunnicliffe
Special Make Up Effects: Bob Keen
Special Make Up Effects Senior Artist: Mark Coulier
Special Make Up Effects Senior Technician: Dave Keen
Image Animation Crew: Martin Mercer, Dave Elsey, Jason Reed, Nikolai Galitzine, Paul Spateri, Tom McLaughlin

SPECIAL EFFECTS
Special Effects: Martin Bresin, Dale Ettema, Steven Carlton Ficke, Don Hasting, Jeffrey Knott, Brian Latt, Scott Sand

VISUAL EFFECTS
Optical Effects Supervisor: W. Dale Russell
Process Effects Supervisor: Allen Blaisdell
Visual Effects Art Director: Joshua Culp

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Production Designer: Jane Ann Stewart
Art Director: David Lazan
Assistant Art Directors: Chris Anthony Miller, Maria C. Connors
Assistant Art Directors (Chicago): Andy Werderitsch, Max Jones
Set Decorator: Kathryn Peters
Assistant Set Decorator: Wendy Weaver
On-Set Dresser: Bruce Bellamy
Property Master: Will Blount
Property Lead (Chicago): Phil Ellman
Assistant Props: John 'Skip' Weaver
Property Assistant: Monica Ragan
Propmaker Carpenter: David Cole
Carpenters: Aaron J. Harney, David E. Abrego, Gary L. Brennan, Leland Orvis, Phillip Fiske Stone III, Ray Maxwell, Robert Brent Wert, Vernon Ambros
On-Set Carpenter: Lyn William Corey
Carpenter Apprentice: R.D. Wegener
Lead Man Carpenter: Bradely Paul Wisham
Painters: Dannen King, Kate C. Lewis, Leza Ingalls, Michael Biggie
Scenic Paint Foreman: Kelly Deco
Art Department Supervisor: Mick Strawn
Art Department Coordinator: Douglas Morton
Illustrators: John Coven, Sean Hargreaves
Art Department Assistant: Jaimie Sarra
Lead Men: Jack Eberhardt, Joel Osborne
Swing Gang: Donald B. Osborne, Glenn M. Carrere, Lisa Denker, Luanne Anders, Wayne Frierson

OTHER CREW
Script Supervisor: Rachel Atkinson
Post Production Accountants: Julie Hansen, Entertainment Accounting
Accounting Assistant (Chicago): Suzanne E. Krocker
Production Auditor: W. Mark McNair
Assistant Auditor: Jeanette D. Connolly
Production Associate: Jonathan Wiedemann
Production Assistants: Heather McCorkindale, Kristinn Thordarson, Michael Amter, Richard Stockmon, Tino Sage
Production Assistants (Chicago): Gregory M. French, Beth Tyler, Carl Paoli, Rick Smith
Assistant to Alan Poul: Eliot Winks
Assistants to Bernard Rose: Jennifer Smith, Regina Hinton
Administrator: Sharon Ainsberg
Transportation Coordinator: Joe Feeney
Transportation Coordinator (Chicago): Richard De Angelo
Transportation Captain: William Palmer
Transportation Captain (Chicago): Calvin Chin
Drivers: Alan Kaminsky, Don Feeney, Don Mancini, James 'Obee' Oberman, Skip Knight
Helicopter Pilot: Robert 'Bobby Z' Zajonc
Catering: Coast to Coast Catering Inc; International Catering
Catering (Chicago): Joe Hannah
Craft Service: Bill Lybeer
Craft Service (Chicago): Nick Manno
Child Welfare: Donna Lee, Louise Bower, Virgil Fornas
Head Animal Trainer: Brian McMillan
Bee Wrangler: Norman Gary
Assistant Bee Wrangler: Mel Greenleaf
Chicago Consultant: Henrietta Thompson
Set Medic: Jody Boghosian
Chicago Crew Paramedic: Sudi Davis
Stage Manager: Bruce Fahr
Stage Engineer: Bruce Block
Production Interns: Bill Dumas, Katrin Ingvadottir, Michelle Balog
Bond: Film Finances Inc
Legal Services: Sinclair, Tenenbaum and Co Inc
Animal Activity Monitored By: American Humane Association
Publicity: Baker/Winokur/Ryder
Set Security: Yaji's Bodyguards and Security
Chicago Security: Rock Security

LOCATIONS
Locations: Cabrini Green Public Housing Projects, Chicago, Illinois, USA; University of Illinois at Chicago, Near West Side, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Studio: Occidental Studios, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA
Location Manager: Boyd H. Wilson
Location Assistant: Larry Ring
Location Assistant (Chicago): Julie Golden

STUNTS
Stunt Coordinator: Walter Scott
Stunts: Phil Chong, Marian Green, Debbie Lynn Ross, William Washington

CASTING
Casting: Jane Alderman, Jason La Padura
Extras Casting: Anna Miller
Chicago Extras Casting: Holzer Roche Ridge Casting
Casting Associate: Jan McGill
ADR Voice Casting: Barbara Harris

CAST
Virginia Madsen (Helen Lyle)
Tony Todd (The Candyman)
Xander Berkeley (Trevor Lyle)
Kasi Lemmons (Bernadette Walsh)
Vanessa Williams (Anne-Marie McCoy)
DeJuan Guy (Jake)
Marianna Elliott (Clara)
Ted Raimi (Billy)
Ria Pavia (Monica)
Mark Daniels (student)
Lisa Ann Poggi (Diane)
Adam Philipson (Danny)
Eric Edwards (Harold)
Carolyn Lowery (Stacey)
Barbara Alston (Henrietta Mosely)
Sarina Grant (Kitty Culver)
Latesha Martin, Lanesha Martin (baby Anthony)
Michael Culkin (Professor Philip Purcell)
Bernard Rose (Archie Walsh)
Glenda Starr Kelly (crying mother)
Kenneth A. Brown (castrated boy)
Caesar Brown (tough guy)
Terrence Riggins (gang leader)
Gilbert Lewis (Detective Frank Valento)
Rusty Schwimmer (policewoman)
Baxter Harris (detective)
John Rensenhouse (attorney)
Mika Quintard (TV reporter)
Doug MacHugh (1st orderly)
Carol Harris (2nd orderly)
Stanley DeSantis (Dr Burke)
Diane Peterson (nurse)
Michael Wilhelm (priest)

PLOT SUMMARY

Student Helen Lyle is writing a thesis about local legends and myths in Chicago. She learns of the legend of the Candyman, a one-armed supernatural killer who appears if you look into a mirror and say his name five times. Helen doesn't believe it - until she discovers a series of brutal killings in a nearby housing project...

CAPSULE REVIEW

Though it never attained the status afforded to Clive Barker's own Hellraiser (1987), Bernard Rose's adaptation of the author's Candyman (1992) is just as impressive and unnerving an experience and deserves a better reputation than it currently enjoys. It is, without question, the most affecting genre film of the early 1990s, one of the very few bright spots in a genre that had become increasingly moribund after Re-Animator (1985) and before it was revitalised by the likes of The Sixth Sense (1999) and The Blair Witch Project (1999). (Full Review)

Australia
Theatrical Distributors: REP Distribution
Video Distributors: Columbia TriStar Home Video
DVD Distributors: Umbrella Entertainment

Brazil
Video Distributors: LK-TEL Vídeo
DVD Distributors: Columbia TriStar

Germany
Laserdisc Distributors: Columbia/Tristar (14073)
DVD Distributors: Columbia/Tristar (14073)

Spain
Theatrical Distributors: Laurenfilm S.A.

UK
Laserdisc Distributors: Columbia/Tristar (LD 14073)
DVD Distributors: Columbia/Tristar (CDR 14073)

USA
Theatrical Distributors: TriStar Pictures
Video Distributors: Columbia TriStar Home Video
Laserdisc Distributors: Columbia/Tristar (94636)
DVD Distributors: Columbia/Tristar (94639); Columbia/Tristar (03944 - Special Edition)

Australia
Rating: M

Finland
Rating: K-16

France
Rating: -12

Germany
Rating: 18

Iceland
Rating: 16

Norway
Rating: 18

Singapore
Rating: NC-16

South Korea
Rating: 18

Spain
Rating: 18

UK
Rating: 18

USA
Rating: R (certificate #31870)

1993
Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films, USA (Saturn Awards)
Best Actress (Virginia Madsen) - winner
Best Horror Film - nominated
Best Make Up (Bob Keen) - nominated
Best Writing (Bernard Rose) - nominated

Avoriaz Fantastic Film Festival, Spain
Grand Prize (Bernard Rose) - nominated

Fantasporto, Portugal (International Fantasy Film Award)
Best Film (Bernard Rose) - nominated

1992
September
11: Canada - shown at the Toronto Film Festival

October
16: USA - theatrical release

1993
January
7: Germany - theatrical release
20: France - theatrical release
29: Spain - theatrical release

February
Day Unknown: Portugal - shown at the Fantasporto Film Festival
11: Australia - theatrical release

March
17: USA - laserdisc release (Columbia/Tristar (94636))

April
22: Netherlands - theatrical release

June
Day Unknown: Germany - laserdisc release (Columbia/Tristar (14073))

1998
September
8: USA - DVD release (Columbia/Tristar (94639))

2000
July
17: UK - DVD release (Columbia/Tristar (CDR 14073))

2004
August
17: USA - DVD release (Columbia/Tristar (03944 - Special Edition))

POSTER TAGS

We Dare You To Say His Name Five Times!

You don't have to believe... just beware.

Candyman, Candyman, Candyman, Candyman... Don't Say Again!

From The Chilling Imagination Of Clive Barker.

O Assassino em Série - Portuguese title
Candyman - Terrore dietro lo specchio - Italian title
Candyman: el dominio de la mente - Spanish title
Candymans Fluch - German title
Kampókéz - Hungarian title
O Mistério de Candyman - Brazilian title

SEQUELS
Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh (1995)
Candyman: Day of the Dead (1999)

FOOTAGE INCLUDED IN
Boogeymen: The Killer Compilation (2001)
Clive Barker: Raising Hell (2004)
Sweets to the Sweet: The Candyman Mythos (2004)

MAGAZINES

epd Film vol.10 no.11 (1 January 1993) p.34
review (by Sabine Horst)

Studio February 1993 p.24 (France)
review (by Gabrielle Devernon)

NEWSPAPERS

Diário de Notícias 22 January 1999 p.55 (Portugal)
review

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Last Updated: 15 October, 2008