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A children’s ghost story comes to terrifying life in this gut-wrenching thriller
about a graduate student whose research into modern folklore summons the spirit
of the dead. Helen Lyle (Virginia Madsen) laughs when she interviews college
freshmen about their superstitions. But when she hears about "Candyman," a slave
spirit with a hook hand who is said to haunt Chicago’s notorious Cabrini-Green
housing project, she thinks she has a new twist for this thesis. Braving the
gang-ridden territory to visit the site of a brutal murder, Helen arrogantly
assumes "Candyman" can’t really exist... until he appears, igniting a string of
terrifying, tragic slayings. But the police don’t believe in monsters, and they
charge Helen with the grisly crimes. Only one person can set her free:
"Candyman."
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