Though the role of Candyman turned Tony Todd into a horror icon, he wasn’t the only actor in consideration for the film’s title role: Eddie Murphy was also reportedly a contender for the part. Eddie Murphy was considered for the lead in Candyman. Here are 15 things you might not have known about Candyman. In 1992, English filmmaker Bernard Rose-who got his start working as a gopher on The Muppet Show-turned Clive Barker’s short story “The Forbidden” into Candyman. What began as a low-budget indie film has morphed into a contemporary classic of the horror genre, and essential Halloween viewing. When she’s told that Candyman still haunts Chicago's Cabrini-Green housing project, and that his spirit can be summoned by repeating his name into a mirror five times, Helen does just that … and all hell breaks loose. After they stumble across the local legend of Candyman, a well-to-do black artist who fell in love with a white woman in the late 1800s and was murdered for it, Helen wants to learn more. Helen Lyle (Virginia Madsen) is a Chicago graduate student with a deep fascination with urban legends, which she and her friend Bernadette (Kasi Lemmons) are using as the basis for a thesis project.
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