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Just watched "Candyman" on crackle: WTF does the name have to do with anything?

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I just finished watching Candyman (PURE CHEESE!) for the first time on Crackle.com and I'm puzzled:

#1: What does the backstory have to do with the supernatural killings? People say he's "the same guy" with no link at all. Was it all just fluff? It's certainly not motivation (he kills indiscriminately). They say he, being a black man, taught some white girl over a century earlier and pissed off he parents when they fell in love. Doesn't sound like a bad guy with reason to kill unrelated people of both races in the future and it doesn't provide any kind of "leap" into the supernatural. No, the graffiti depicting the backstory doesn't provide a link. It's portaryed as an "origin" even though it is seemingly unrelated.

#2: What was with all that "be my victim" and "give me one exquisite kiss" crap about? He didn't ASK anyone else to "be his victim" and it doesn't seem related to his cockamamie origin story. Was it just bad writing? "Chicks are freaked out by ghosts with a hook hand/stump trying to force themselves on them. Yeah, let's put that in."

#3: WHY IS HE/THE MOVIE CALLED "CANDYMAN?" So, a teacher was brutally murdered by having his hand chopped off and being covered in bees. What does that have to do with the name "Candyman" or a man who deals in candy? It's just unbelievably distracting when something as basic as that goes unanswered through the entire film.

There's more I wonder about but I don't want to question any deeper into such a simple movie. 😉 These are the ones that I think must have answers or else the movie wouldn't exist (unless it's meant to leave *everyone* confused), so I gotta ask 'em. It's just that it seems too much to be simply explained by calling it "sloppy."
 
wasn't he like dipped in honey or something?

that movie scared the crap out of me as a kid... I was afraid of mirrors for years. of course, when I saw it as an adult, I thought it was a total joke.
 
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wasn't he like dipped in honey or something?

that movie scared the crap out of me as a kid... I was afraid of mirrors for years. of course, when I saw it as an adult, I thought it was a total joke.
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Even if honey=candy, that's a pretty big leap. Like calling him "lumberjack" because they used a saw to chop his arm. Even then, I never heard that they put honey on him, though they may have said that (the laptop speakers were very low). I'm not even sure they ever called them "honeybees" though they were very clearly were.
 
It's a pretty typical early 90's horror flick. Most of them had the same ambiguity to them. I think it's just a sign of the era in which it was written maybe?
 
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Explains some more backstory.

He was coated in honey before being tortured to death and a little boy tasting the honey came up with the "Candyman" thing. He was also a painter not a teacher but yes they fell all in lovezzz.


It also explains the love story a bit which is why he all supernatural and shit. He will exist until Annie or her offspring die with him so they can continue to the afterlife 2gether. It also details the mirror thing which is why he must be summoned with a mirror and in the further series there are people looking fof the "origninal" mirror.
 
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