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Unlike the MPAA we do not assign one inscrutable rating based on age, but 3 objective ratings for SEX/NUDITY, VIOLENCE/GORE and PROFANITY on a scale of 0 to 10, from lowest to highest, depending on quantity and context. |
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Virginia Madsen is a university researcher studying the
Candyman legend: something about a big black man with a hook who's haunting Cabrini Green,
the infamous Chicago housing project. His modus operandi is to go through apartments,
slicing people open with his hook.
SEX/NUDITY 4 - A woman is seen in her bra. In another scene, we see her in
her bra and then naked from the waist up from the side; she is covered in blood, which
makes this a very unpleasant scene. A woman is strip-searched. We briefly see a nude woman
in a bathtub.
VIOLENCE/GORE 9 - A girl is murdered. We don't actually see it but we see
the blood pouring through the ceiling of the room below where the murder took place and we
hear her screaming. We see a woman lying in a puddle of blood and then a bloody bedroom
and a baby's crib. We see a dog's severed head. We see a man's bloody arm stump which
has a hook nailed into it. A woman is found, very bloody, after having been
"hooked" to death. A young boy is shown, while a voice over tells the story of
how a man deprived him of his most private parts. A man is murdered by being split from
bottom to top: we see him spitting blood and convulsing. A man and woman are shown covered
with bees; he has bees crawling out of his mouth. A woman is burned in a fire and shown
crawling away with a burned scull. We see the shape of someone who has supposedly been
burned to death. Another man is hook-split, with blood sprouting everywhere.
PROFANITY 4 - Harsh language which pales next to the amount of gore and
violence. [profanity glossary]
DISCUSSION TOPICS - Superstition, urban blight, death, murder, monsters,
infidelity, racism.
MESSAGE - Whatever you do, don't say Candyman five times while looking in a
mirror, and if you do, run for your life.
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A CAVEAT: We've gone through several editorial changes since we started covering films in 1992 and some of our early standards were not as stringent as they are now. We therefore need to revisit many older reviews, especially those written prior to 1998 or so; please keep this in mind if you're consulting a review from that period. While we plan to revisit and correct older reviews our resources are limited and it is a slow, time-consuming process. |
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