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Tuesday, October 20,1992
Texas A&M University ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT The Battalion
P a ge 5
'Candyman' coated in gore
but suffers from weak script
By TIMM DOOLEN
Special to THE BATTALION
"Candyman"
Starring Virginia Madsen, Tony Todd
and Vanessa Williams
Directed by Bernard Rose
Rated R
Playing at Schulman 6
Who can take a body?
Cover it with blood?
Rip out the intestines and throw 'em in the
mud?
The Candyman, the Candyman can
The Candyman can 'cause he mixes it with leg
end to make the film sound good.
OK, so Sammy Davis, Jr. is probably turn
ing in his grave, along with half of the cast of
this movie.
Candyman, Candyman, Candyman, Can
dyman, Candyman. If you say his name five
times while looking in a mirror, he'll appear
behind you and disembowel you. Or so the
legend goes in the fictional "Candyman,"
based on the Clive Barker story, "The Forbid
den."
The main protagonist, Helen (Virginia
Madsen), is doing a thesis on urban legends
— those modern terror stories that are told
around campfires and at all-night sleepovers.
The "Candyman," played by Tony Todd,
was murdered 100 years ago by a lynch mob
who cut off his right hand and then let a hive
of bees sting him to death. Now he's sup
posed to inhabit a run-down ghetto tene
ment in downtown Chicago, bludgeoning
residents every once in a while.
Investigating the legend, Helen finds Can-
dyman's living area in an abandoned apart
ment. She soon finds herself being followed
by the Candyman, waking up covered in
blood next to a decapitated dog, and being
blamed for the disappearance of a baby in
the "haunted" tenement.
For the rest of the movie, the Candyman
kills other people and lets Helen take the
blame for it, trying to turn her into a horror
legend of her own.
As horror movies go, this isn't the worst.
but then again, this is no "Silence of the
Lambs." It stays away from the senseless gore
that other slasher films promote, but on the
other hand it falls short in explaining the caus
es for any of the murders.
In the end, it's difficult to figure out what the
point of the movie is, or why the Candyman
wants to make Helen into another legend.
The first half of the movie drags to the
point of boredom (with intermittent shocks)
and then the second half is a flurry of action,
accusations and dead bodies. But in the hur
ry to get on with the action, the story radical
ly shifts its storyline and leaves behind any
sense of significance.
I'm not normally a big fan of horror films,
especially shock-slasher movies that try to
scare you by any means possible. And while
this is not as bad as a "Friday the 13th" or a
"Silent Night, Deadly Night," it is definitely
not up to par with other better horror films.
Who can take a movie?
Turn it out so bad?
Use icepicks on babies, make us feel real sad?
The Candyman...
Country charts fall short in
percentage of female artists
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
DALLAS — In the midst of
country music's celebration of its
recent prosperity comes a most
telling statistic: Only about 15
percent of the records on the Bill-
ooard country singles and albums
charts are by female artists.
Country has long been a male-
dominated genre, but that per
centage is low compared to a
decade ago.
The conventional wisdom has
long been that women make up
three-quarters of country music
buyers and are more likely to buy
records by men, especially the
ones who looked like they just
stepped out of a cigarette com
mercial and into jeans that are
four sizes too small.
But a recent Recording Industry
Association of America survey in
dicates that only half of country
records are bought by women. Fe
males are buying the hunks, but
then so are males.
Pam Tillis, racing up the charts
with the single “Snake the Sugar
Tree," thinks thir gs are getting
better for female artists in spite ot
what the charts may say.
"I don't think women wen
previously respected in Nash! ^ K 7°
tike they are now," saystfe
daughter of Mel Tillis. ! 'TI® Marycrt
were expected to stand thereaii
look pretty and not make®
waves. But then Loretta Lynnori have i 0 i
es earcl
out and sang 'The Pill' andDol
Parton wrote some of her womle. gooij f 0 i
ful songs, and the attitude (towl y," Jose
women) started changing."
Suzy Bogguss' recent Cent
Music Association Horizc bf you, :
Award as best new artist shone day, to't
that the Nashville establishma time aw
is willing to expand its exp® his S imi
tions of female artists. At thefci ; Ol anc j
of awards votine, Boggussn* Wsider
zoommg up the charts with 'Is
ting Go, which is about a
ter leaving home to goto
— not your usual countrythernt
Bogguss says it's importantfe
women artists to keep their vat.
es strong and their visioncb
“We have a chance tosingatw
so many real feelings and e®
tions and sometimes givingli
other side of the story. It's an &
citing time to be in Nashville"
she says.
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