Candyman 2 - Farewell to the Flesh |  | Director: Bill Condon
Actors: Tony Todd, Kelly Rowan, William O'Leary, Bill Nunn, Matt Clark
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Category: DVD
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Rating:  41 reviews
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Letterboxed, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Original Language), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Dubbed)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 93 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: MGMD1002325D
ISBN: 0792850637
UPC: 027616865441
EAN: 9780792850632
Theatrical Release Date: March 17, 1995
Release Date: August 28, 2001
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A stylish though inferior sequel to its classic predecessor, Bill Condon's Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh deepens 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 at Carnival time with a disc jockey whimsically reminding us that Carnival is the last farewell to pleasure before the rigors of Lent. Tony Todd, who returns as the Candyman, gives a quiet dignity and sadness to the monstrous specter with a hook for a hand. His life was torn 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. --Roz Kaveney
Product Description
Evil comes when you call his name. Round two. Studio: Tcfhe/mgm Release Date: 09/09/2008 Starring: Tony Todd Run time: 91 minutes Rating: R Director: Bill Condon
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 I didnt see anything sweet about candyman. April 16, 2009
Jill St Julian (texas)
Candy man is a very good horror flick that no matter how many times you look at it it still frightens you.
 I sensed some anger management issues here July 31, 2008
george harris (Diep River. S Africa)
By now you pretty much know what this film is about. The heroine is pretty bland and screams, a lot.She teaches art to poor black kids, this tells us she is a Good Person, she has a shouty brother. The Candyman wants her (and presumably the audience)to feel sorry for him, he does this by jamming a hook through the guts of nice white people. So good luck if you thought this film would win an award for promoting racial harmony.
The film is set in New Orleans so naturally all the cliches are thrown up: rotting ante bellum mansions, mardi gras etc. The police investigating these killings have a quaint eccentricity to their investigating procedure, they do this by ignoring even the most obvious physical evidence.
If you have a fear of being attacked by a black man this film is probably not for you, if you have a fear of bad films this is definitely not for you.
Candyman, candyman,candyman, candyman, candyman...what...aarrrgghhh
 more stylish than the first March 2, 2008
falcon (canada)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
i liked this follow up to the original Candyman movie.i found it
entertaining and the acting is pretty good.i also liked that there was
a back story that fleshed out the title character and gave him some
humanity.i didn't find the movie scary and there wasn't a lot of
gore,so gore hounds will be disappointed.the story itself doesn't have
a lot of depth to it,other than the back story.still the movie goes
along at a good clip,and it's very stylish,more so than the first one
was.was it as good as the original?i think so.i don't think it was
better,but it was as good.in terms of entertainment,i thought it was a
good movie.if you expect to be scared,you might be disappointed
here.otherwise,you might like it.for me,Candyman 2:Farewell to the
Flesh is a 4/5
WAY BETTER THAN THE ORIGINAL November 3, 2007
Tiffany M. Donley (NEW JERSEY)
SEQUELS ARE USUALLY BAD. NOT IN THIS CASE. THIS IS ONE SEQUEL THAT IS BETTER THAN THE ORIGINAL. IF YOU LIKE BLOOD, HORROR, AND GORE GO GET THIS MOVIE.
A Sad Story February 2, 2006
Joseph Adams (Superior, WI USA)
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
I agreed with this, at least what I saw. Mainly, making the Candyman character a horror icon along the lines of Freddy or Jason. The scenes of seeing the title character hazed, lynched and left for dead borders on the unwatchable. But unlike Freddy or Jason, this is genuinely terrifying because it is more super realitic. The title name the Candy man implies that the black man who has the lead character was intellectually childlike- a mob hazed and lynched him, stunk honey on him hench the word candy and then the bees were attracted to the honey, murdering him. The super mega low budget was commenting on the childlike old fashioned hicks who did this. Where I live in Duluth and Superior it is a glorified ghetto- they are stuck in like the 1870s. They are on a level with the animals, especially a squirrel. They taught them not to accept anything that was different. They have paid for it, but still refuse to learn moral lessons from atrocities of the past. Their tired, old fashioned values is depressing to watch and again super mega low budget, some real big time immaturity here. That they would even make this appaled me.
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