Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh (1995) KILL COUNT

Welcome to Killed Cow where we

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the victims of all our favorite horror movies. I'm James, a JD and today we're watching Candyman, the first sequel to Candyman released in

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, although it never comes close to the quality of the first film because how could it say goodbye to meat at least it tries to be a good movie Unfortunately with its slow, forgettable characters and repetitive beats it never rises above mediocrity the only time it achieves anything close to greatness is during a flashback near the end, but hey, that's more than can be said for the third film, which is an abject piece of shit, just wait, goodbye meat, see Tony Todd return as Candyman, who this time was given a real name, Daniel Robitaille, but since Bernhard came up with the idea of ​​a sequel it wasn't What the studio wanted, they replaced him as director with Bill Condon, who would later direct Dreamgirls and both parts of Twilight Breaking Dawn and write the best showmen, gods and monsters, the latter earning him an Oscar as a writer despite Condon's s

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. . hand on the helm Candyman: It never does anything extraordinary, it just adds more backstory and gives us more people

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ed with a hook in the back, but sometimes all you need is for a sequel to exist to cement a horror killer as iconic and goodbye to meat certainly exists.

How many deaths will Candyman get the second time? Let's find out and get to them. The film begins with another open-mouthed mural of the candy man who is immediately given a name during a summary of his backstory. Daniel Robitaille. he was the son of slaves this exposition slideshow is being presented by professor philip purcell that guy from the first movie that is true to one nation under god

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ry salute hook baby his speech during a book tour tells us everything we already know about Candyman and dead ghosts in the mirror, you know, you know, Purcell says that the people who died in the first movie were murdered by Helen Lyle representing the urban legend and to prove that Candyman is not real he says his name five times on a reflective book sleeve and therefore I don't see anything happening except this hook across the screen haha ​​just kidding, that's just a ruse to sell books, ladies and gentlemen.

I would like you to meet our Candyman Peter, good job Peter, but you have to look. You're more confident up there, buddy, you gotta be Candyman in four cells on the way home. He stops by a guy named Ethan Tarak who blames Purcell for his father's death. His father was murdered due to unemployment. Tell him, friend, you told him there was no Candyman. You told him. say the name and now he's dead, damn Tim Taylor's father, he was murdered by Candyman, the annoying Purcell fires Ethan and goes into a bar and in the bathroom he faces the consequences of his book cover recital when Candyman shows up with a hook in the back, she joins Candy.

The man's Vick list stains its hardcover with blood before Candyman drops it like he's hot and disappears. The opening credits introduce us to this film taking place in New Orleans, Louisiana three days before landing, but that won't stop anyone from getting a head start on their Carnival. a disembodied radio DJ tells us how this movie got its subtitle, he says it's what carnival means in Latin for your house, actually some white research shows it's a popular etymology that uses the meaning of meat valet, but no I'm here to pee on nobody's parade. So go ahead and keep celebrating them.

Our new protagonist is an OTT eater who bears a certain superficial resemblance to Helen Lyle. She is a teacher for kids like Matthew, whose favorite hobby is drawing Candyman pictures, and while kids can be a little complicated, sometimes it's not as hectic as her family life. See her brother is that guy Ethan and he's currently under arrest for the murder of Professor Purcell. Hey, what gives the police the right to arrest this guy? I did it, I confessed. from the story oh he can hit, yes he usually will that. I guess this detective, Ray, is especially happy to have Ethan in custody and plans to charge him with a few other unsolved murders, plus three unsolved murders of John Doe and Ethan's own father, Coleman Tarak.

Since all four victims died in a hotel, like Purcell, Annie does not believe her brother is guilty and thinks he is simply punishing himself for not being able to save her father, telling him to leave him, but he doesn't share anything. Suspicious of Candy Man, her little sister comes up with the idea of ​​making a call to Candy Man in the mirror and being very careful, she even disconnects the nearest phone. Bye bye. I love the way Ray freaks out when the mirror breaks. All this. Ethan is a murderer. It's pretty hard on Annie and her mother Octavia, who are already having a hard time since she has cancer and everything Octavia is played by Veronica Cartwright in her third episode of Kill Cow after her appearance as a child in Byrds and as a young woman, an alien, now we have her middle aged so we only need her when she is older and we will have the whole Cartwright set and he returns to his strange looking apartment with fake red lighting outside and continues working on his portrait of Hillary Clinton or maybe you just bought that piece of art, it looks like a George W.

Bush original. She wants to know more about how her father died, so she takes her bored husband Paul to her childhood home where she happened to be a large, old building that looked like an abandoned plantation, although she and Ethan grew up here. Now it's completely empty, except for some graffiti and this burger. Oh, and a disaster. I doubt Alfie Allen is watching, but he and his siblings don't stop Annie from looking around him. she takes Paul to her childhood bedroom, which has a giant wall mirror and a clear view of the former slave quarters. She then continues to her father's room, where he died, and there she finds all sorts of Candy Man's usual artwork, including a whole damn altar for the guy that looks pop-pop with a little taste. for the sweet Hi, I mean, she returns to work where she finds Matthew and another kid fighting over her Candyman photos.

She tells the kids that the candy isn't real and that shows that she doesn't believe in him, she stupidly looks in a mirror and says her name five times oh hey, nothing happened except wait a minute, it's just that a Bee buzzes by the window, ah, shit, Miss Annie, you're probably pretty screwed right now, please, really. Did you do that Candyman thing or throw fish bones into the garbage disposal? Get ready to call a plumber pretty soon, but no, CMT spokesperson Paul is incredulous about Annie's call to Candyman, even though she assures herself that she didn't do it. nothing risque, no monsters, oh yeah Annie, so who is that?

Do you know who he is? He is the only Candyman with that sweet singing voice. Tony Todd delivers more lines with his voice sounding like warm wounded honey. Sorry, that was an insensitive simile, I'm sure then. He spins Annie around like a little ballerina, a candy ballerina, but she won't be able to kidnap another blonde lady into the ether if she has a lousy, stinky husband running around, so Candyman takes care of that and kills Paul right in front of him. of Annie hitting him with a Hook on his back Candyman even pulls Paul out of the ground to show Annie how good of a mythical assassin he is, although you don't need to watch him all the time mate, it's starting to get unnerving, just leave it, it's okay, thanks con bees everywhere. face now Candyman scares Annie, although no matter how hard she tries she can't escape from the guy, is that right?

Because the next thing you know, he's talking to the police again and then hanging out at her mom's house. I don't really understand the plot of this. Sometimes in the movie, Annie wakes up the next day at Mardi Gras and finds some breakfast tea waiting for her. Any honey with that tea. Watch this song. Misery or Misery with that tea. Misery. Tea, but this appearance of Candyman and his murder of Annie's mother turns out to be but. a dream since Annie wakes up again and finds Octavia fine, you know, besides the cancer, Annie gets a visit from a couple of kids she teaches and they tell her that Matthew disappeared last night oh no, what if Candyman went took it oh no and what?

If Octavia knows more than she's letting on about Candyman, it seems like she does and he goes to Matthew's house and talks to his father, Reverend Ellis, so that's what happened with Radio Raheem. I guess he chose the path of love over hate. She shows him Matthew's extensive portfolio. Candyman joins and then leaves a little uneasy about being included in her job, she goes back to the police station and tells her brother that she learned about Candyman and he even said her name five times in a mirror, yeah dude, like Maybe I should have warned him. about Bea boy, instead of keeping it a secret between you and your dead dad, it turns out his dad was obsessed with Candyman and Ethan was left trying to stop him from calling the killer from the mirror, it worked until he stopped and Ethan.

She came home to find her father dead in her room lying in a pool of blood in front of Candyman's candlelit altar. Ethan says that his father had found a way to destroy Candyman and then gives Annie the name of a local guy he may have taught her. The secret, unbeknownst to him, is followed by that detective guy Ray and he looks for this knowledgeable guy. His name is Honor Aid Thibodeau and it seems like he is exactly who she is looking for. He devastates the sweet mother. Annie's name drops her dead father, which earns her an invitation to the Tibideaux household. and his super secret lair tells him that before Annie's father died he was looking for the mirror that belongs to Caroline Sullivan, the woman Candyman loved and died for his father was looking for that mirror because apparently when Daniel Robitaille died his soul was trapped there. , so now it's like a Candyman Horcrux, a Candy Crux, breaks the mere breaking of the curse, but since Annie's father couldn't successfully break that, close to Candyman is still here and the only thing that guy loves more than showing people it's just the bees are killing them, so after covering up Thibodeau and the bees and telling Annie that she's pregnant with his daughter, now wait what he kills the Honorable Honoré by throwing his covered body head-first through from a nearby wall, Annie runs home avoiding the candy man in the middle of the Mardi Gras parades and jumps into the shower so she can wash off all the bees and runs a hand over her newly pregnant belly after hearing about the story background of the candy man, she begins to wonder about her own connection to the guy, so she tracks down Reverend Ellis again and he takes her to a library to learn something spicy.

He was born on the Esplanade plantation which is the home of my family she returns to her old family home and finds the resting place of the candy man and next to him the resting place of her love Caroline Sullivan, who it turns out was also the mother of her son, spent time in the police station, detective ray yells at ethan some more and decides to taunt his perpetrator by calling the candy man, leave a very entertaining enthusiasm, it's a great way to get yourself killed, buddy,

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puts an end to it. to Ray's stupid smile by hooking him from behind and throwing him through a giant window at the police station, that whole women's day is completely ruined when another cop goes to see what happened, Ethan stupidly runs away and earns a bullet in the back and a death fell on very long stairs, why did you flee in that situation?

Dude, you're in a police station full of armed cops, what did you think was going to happen even though you didn't actually do anything like this video shows? sample I'm so glad they included this. I always wanted to see what it looks like objectively when Candyman was murdering people and sneaks into Octavia's house and goes to the secret drawer of her mother's dresser, where she finds pictures of Candy Man's lover and one-year-old daughter, confronts Octavia and yells at him for lying to them about his history because it turns out that the candy man's daughter, Isabelle, was Octavia's grandmother, which makes Annie the candy man's great-great-granddaughter, me, Bo, what was that all about? that your baby was in it? so Octavia is always aware of this, but when Annie's father Coleman started researching her candy family tree, Octavia blocked him and went on a devout path of denial, no candy, come on lady, do you know what happens When do people say that shit? they get the hook, the candy man stabs his great-granddaughter in the back, although all we see is a little blood coming out of the Frog, he drops her to the ground and begins to tell Annie that through her he can continue his legend throughout his lineage all the time.

Octavia crawls over to her security system and presses an alarm. Octavia then dies with a silent apology that leaves her daughter Annie screaming and her great-grandfather Daniel, peacefully, out of there. Annie races through parades and a bigelf on a train back to her childhood home. where she finds Matthew hiding oh yeah, that kid was kind of a character, wasn't he? Together they broke inin the old slave quarters right at the mouth of the Mississippi, but after she falls through some broken boards, she sends him away. She seeks help, is she alone when she finally finds Caroline Sullivan just resting right under a bunch of creepy skeletons and beams?

She reaches for his hands, but Candyman appears and tells her no, don't go playing with his soul at home because, after all, he wasn't always a bad guy, in fact, here watch this flashback, although it's really necessary the flashback. We've already heard how he died plenty of times. Emma look, oh, okay, we have to see it. Be my witness if you say so. Dude, actually, like I said above, this flashback is probably the best part of the movie, no surprise, as it focuses on Tony Todd giving a heartbreaking performance when Daniel Robitaille is murdered for the crime of falling in love.

The clothes here It looks more like costumes from a community center play than period clothing, but man, there are saunas that more than make up for any low-budget, true-to-history costume, the racist bastards who beat him up and then covered him up. honey from a pair of broken honeycombs, which is, of course, where he got his name and catchphrase when a biblical swarm of bees approaches them, the lynch mob retreats and allows Daniel Robitaille to be attacked and stung by them all. , he survives long enough for his love Caroline to find him and it's a truly sad scene that even the candy man can't help but cry.

Oh, before Daniel Robe dies, he screams in pain and curses his murderers with one last utterance of his name in Caroline's mirror, he abandons the ghost, although as we all already know, his soul will live on in legend and he sympathizes. with the history of their ancestors because, well, who wouldn't? But she thinks of all the innocents he murdered in his search for her and that gives him the determination to snatch Caroline's mirror from the wall. Oh, Annie, that was a load-bearing mirror, he can't just remove it without causing structural damage. Serious, the building floods and sweeps them both away, but after floating along with the bushes and skeletons, they are saved by Matthew and the help he brought, who are a group of other children.

Hi, Matthew couldn't get to the fire department or something, they successfully escaped the torrent of water and on the way out he grabbed Caroline's mirror. Candyman tries to stop her. one last time literally standing on water but she smashes the mirror against the wall killing the maintenance staff's spirit again by somehow turning it into glass I guess since it breaks into a bunch of pieces and then shatters, I guess it was more like candy. glass, yes, ma'am, Annie and Matthew walk out of there while the Wizard of Oz's house is behind them and then go to Reverend Ellis to receive their Ash Wednesday blessings together.

The film ends some years later with me showing his young daughter an old family. photo album, but the girl Caroline is named after her great-great-grandmother doesn't want to go to bed right away, she has other plans, yes girl, we just solved this problem. Damn, how many bodies did Candyman leave lying around the swamp? Let's find out and get to the numbers, but first I'm James Agee, nice and you're looking at dead meat. I don't know why I made a mouse for dead meat, but I guess it's just force of habit, you know, there were nine deaths and Candyman goodbye to meat composed of eight male victims and only one female victim giving us this very uneven charred Daniel Robitaille with his own time of 95 minutes that left us with a murderer on average every ten point five six minutes I give you the chainsaw gold for Poulos to kill Paul because that guy was lifted and held very high while Candyman cut him from the growth to the throat, as if he was always talking about a doll with a machete.

The fourth dumbest death goes to Ethan, who ran like an idiot and took a bullet. on his back for doing it, the ladder trick was pretty cool and that's it, Candyman, bye-bye, meat came out in

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, one of the last big horror sequels to hit the market before it totally screamed upside down, you see how this franchise reacted to the new. horror landscape next week, but until then it's James to Jenice, this has been the death count. Thank you very much for watching this kokal. I want to thank some sponsors like stephanie water Naga Charles Messing willenby fish weed addict Alan cram Brandon Warren and javante Desmond It's still in October, which means you can still pre-order the Dead Meat collector's edition of In Search of the Dark, the 80s horror documentary.

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