"Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh is a 1995 American horror film and a sequel to the 1992 film ""Candyman"", an adaptation of the Clive Barker short story ""The Forbidden"". It stars Tony Todd, Kelly Rowan, William O'Leary, Bill Nunn, Matt Clark and Veronica Cartwright. It was directed by Bill Condon and written by Rand Ravich and Mark Kruger from a story by Barker. Barker executive produced. The sequel, """", was released in 1999. Coleman Tarrant, the father of New Orleans schoolteacher Annie Tarrant, is murdered while investigating the deaths of three men in a manner"
"Testament"", the first original story by Barker to be published in comic book format. Clive Barker Clive Barker (born 5 October 1952) is an English writer, film director, and visual artist. Barker came to prominence in the mid-1980s with a series of short stories, the ""Books of Blood"", which established him as a leading horror writer. He has since written many novels and other works, and his fiction has been adapted into films, notably the ""Hellraiser"" and ""Candyman"" series. He was also the executive producer of the film ""Gods and Monsters"". Barker's paintings and illustrations have been featured in galleries"
"Clive Barker Clive Barker (born 5 October 1952) is an English writer, film director, and visual artist. Barker came to prominence in the mid-1980s with a series of short stories, the ""Books of Blood"", which established him as a leading horror writer. He has since written many novels and other works, and his fiction has been adapted into films, notably the ""Hellraiser"" and ""Candyman"" series. He was also the executive producer of the film ""Gods and Monsters"". Barker's paintings and illustrations have been featured in galleries in the United States as well as within his own books. He has created"
"the truly horrific. For some editions, each book's cover was illustrated by Clive Barker himself. Eighteen of the stories in the ""Books of Blood"" were adapted by Eclipse Books in the comic series ""Tapping the Vein"" as well as other titled adaptations. Several of the stories have been adapted into films, ""Rawhead Rex"" (1986); ""The Forbidden"" (filmed in 1992 as ""Candyman""); ""The Last Illusion"" (filmed in 1995 as ""Lord of Illusions""); ""The Body Politic"" (filmed in 1997 as ""Quicksilver Highway""); ""The Midnight Meat Train"" (2008); ""The Book of Blood"" and ""On Jerusalem Street (a postscript)"" (combined and filmed in 2008"
"(Todd), an artist and son of a slave who had his hand severed and was then murdered. It was released theatrically by TriStar and PolyGram Filmed Entertainment on 16 October 1992. It has a 75% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes, which called it a ""nuanced, effectively chilling tale"". It grossed over $25 million. ""Candyman"" was followed by two sequels, """", and """", neither of which performed critically and commercially as well as ""Candyman"". Helen Lyle, a Chicago graduate student who is researching urban legends, hears of a local story about the Candyman. The legend claims that Candyman can be summoned"
"the basis for the 1992 film ""Candyman"" and its two sequels. Barker was an executive producer of the film ""Gods and Monsters"" (1998), which received major critical acclaim. He had been working on a series of film adaptations of his ""The Abarat Quintet"" books under Disney's management, but because of creative differences, the project was cancelled. In 2005, Barker and horror film producer Jorge Saralegui created the film production company Midnight Picture Show with the intent of producing two horror films per year. In October 2006, Barker announced through his website that he will be writing the script to a"
"been performed at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe as a full length theatrical play, directed by television actor David Oakes. In 2010, Irish film-maker Gerard Lough adapted it into a 27-minute movie. In 2018, writers Scott Beck and Bryan Woods announced that they would be adapting the story. The Boogeyman (short story) ""The Boogeyman"" is a short story by Stephen King, first published in the March 1973 issue of the magazine ""Cavalier"", and later collected in King's 1978 collection ""Night Shift"". The majority of the story occurs in the office of Dr. Harper, a psychiatrist, where a man named Lester Billings"
"to Steven Zaillian for ""Schindler's List""). The cast won a Special Golden Globe Award for their ensemble acting. The film also won the prestigious Golden Lion and the Volpi Cup for Best Ensemble Cast at the Venice Film Festival. Short Cuts Short Cuts is a 1993 American comedy-drama film, directed by Robert Altman. Filmed from a screenplay by Altman and Frank Barhydt, it is inspired by nine short stories and a poem by Raymond Carver. The film has a Los Angeles setting, which substitues the Pacific Northwest backdrop of Carver's stories. Short Cuts traces the actions of 22 principal characters,"
"known as the Candyman. Further inquiries lead her to believe this is connected with recent murders and mutilations in the neighbourhood, although the locals are seemingly reluctant to discuss the incidents. She eventually encounters the Candyman himself, gaining notoriety by becoming his latest victim. This book was later adapted and made into the film ""Candyman"". A man named Jerry is trying to talk a local shady businessman into financing the redevelopment of an old swimming pool complex. However, the pool has some mysterious inhabitants in the form of nude teenage girls who flee should Jerry or his would-be financial backer"
"and Wilder was nominated for a Golden Globe as Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy, but lost both to ""Fiddler on the Roof"". The film also introduced the song ""The Candy Man"", which went on to become a popular hit when recorded by Sammy Davis Jr. In 2014, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being ""culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant"". In a small town in 1970, Charlie Bucket, a poor paperboy, watches a group of children visit a candy shop. Walking home, he passes Willy Wonka's"
"saying that they can't be, it's really perverse. This is a horror movie. . .'"" According to Madsen, ""I was and am now worried about how people will respond. I don't think Spike Lee will like this film."" The film's score was composed by Philip Glass. According to Glass, ""It has become a classic, so I still make money from that score, get checks every year."" Tony Todd confirmed in an interview with IGN that a limited edition featuring 7500 copies of the film's soundtrack was released in February 2015. ""Candyman"" had its world premiere at the 1992 Toronto International"
"6.3/10. The site's critical consensus reads: ""Though it ultimately sacrifices some mystery in the name of gory thrills, ""Candyman"" is a nuanced, effectively chilling tale that benefits from an interesting premise and some fine performances."" Allmovie praised the film, calling it ""haunting, intelligent and poetic"" and ""the finest Barker adaptation ever committed to film"". Roger Ebert of the ""Chicago Sun-Times"" wrote, ""Elements of the plot may not hold up in the clear light of day, but that didn't bother me much. What I liked was a horror movie that was scaring me with ideas and gore, instead of simply with"
"the film received critical acclaim for Kathy Bates's performance as the psychopathic Annie Wilkes. ""New Nightmare"", with ""In the Mouth of Madness"" (1995), ""The Dark Half"" (1993), and ""Candyman"" (1992), were part of a mini-movement of self-reflexive or metafictional horror films. Each film touched upon the relationship between fictional horror and real-world horror. ""Candyman"", for example, examined the link between an invented urban legend and the realistic horror of the racism that produced its villain. ""In the Mouth of Madness"" took a more literal approach, as its protagonist actually hopped from the real world into a novel created by the"
"The Candy Man ""The Candy Man"" (or alternatively, ""The Candy Man Can"") is a song that originally appeared in the 1971 film ""Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory"". It was written by Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley specifically for the film. Although the original book by Roald Dahl (""Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"") contains lyrics adapted for other songs in the film, the lyrics to ""The Candy Man"" do not appear in the book. The soundtrack version of the song was sung by Aubrey Woods, who played Bill the candy store owner in the film. Lyricist Anthony Newley has said"
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"was criticized, although, by Diplo, saying that the song was a ""rip-off"" of Flume. ""The Candy Man"" has been featured in a number of radio, films and TV shows after its introduction in ""Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory"". The Candy Man ""The Candy Man"" (or alternatively, ""The Candy Man Can"") is a song that originally appeared in the 1971 film ""Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory"". It was written by Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley specifically for the film. Although the original book by Roald Dahl (""Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"") contains lyrics adapted for other songs in the"
"(1997), and ""The Amber Spyglass"" (2000). It follows the coming-of-age of two children as they wander through a series of parallel universes against a backdrop of epic events. Neil Gaiman is a writer of science fiction, fantasy short stories and novels, whose notable works include ""Stardust"" (1998), ""Coraline"" (2002), ""The Graveyard Book"" (2009), and ""The Sandman"" series. Alan Moore's works include ""Watchmen"", ""V for Vendetta"" set in a dystopian future UK, ""The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen"", and ""From Hell"", speculating on the identity and motives of Jack the Ripper. Douglas Adams wrote the five-volume science fiction comedy series ""The Hitchhiker's"
"Short Cuts Short Cuts is a 1993 American comedy-drama film, directed by Robert Altman. Filmed from a screenplay by Altman and Frank Barhydt, it is inspired by nine short stories and a poem by Raymond Carver. The film has a Los Angeles setting, which substitues the Pacific Northwest backdrop of Carver's stories. Short Cuts traces the actions of 22 principal characters, both in parallel and at occasional loose points of connection. The role of chance and luck is central to the film, and many of the stories concern death and infidelity. The film features an ensemble cast including Matthew Modine,"
"for it, Shout ordered another 5,000 units for popular demand. Nightbreed Nightbreed (also Night Breed on publicity material, or Clive Barker's Nightbreed) is a 1990 American dark fantasy horror film written and directed by Clive Barker, based on his 1988 novella ""Cabal"", and starring Craig Sheffer, Anne Bobby, David Cronenberg, Charles Haid, Hugh Quarshie, and Doug Bradley. The film features an unstable mental patient who is falsely led to believe by his doctor that he is a serial killer. Tracked down by the police, his doctor, and his girlfriend Lori, Boone eventually finds refuge in an abandoned cemetery called Midian"
"in 1965, but this is never explicitly stated in the book. A film adaptation was produced in 1983, and a little-known short-lived television series appeared in 1990, picking up where the movie left off. A stage adaptation was written by Christopher Sergel and published in 1990. Ponyboy Curtis, a teenaged member of a loose gang of ""greasers"", is leaving a movie theater when he is jumped by ""Socs"", the greasers' rival gang. Several greasers, including Ponyboy's two older brothers—the paternal Darry and the popular Sodapop—come to his rescue. The next night, Ponyboy and two greaser friends, the hardened Dally and"
"(under the name Cluracan) in Neil Gaiman's acclaimed comic series ""The Sandman"" and its spin-off series ""The Dreaming"". Cluracan continues the tradition of constant drunkenness but is portrayed as a tall, elegant blond fairy. The clurichaun Naggeneen (""a little drink"") magically associates himself with ""Mary's Place"", the successor to Callahan's Bar in Spider Robinson's stories. The word is spelled 'cluricaune' there. 'Naggeneen' is used in place of his true name which is unwise for magical beings to reveal. Naggeneen saves the bar from bankruptcy through his ability to drink tremendous quantities of alcohol—and to pay for it honestly. Clurichaun The"
"series ""The New Twilight Zone"", as well as the short story ""Soft Monkey"", which won Ellison his second Edgar Award, in 1988. ""Angry Candy"" was nominated for a Bram Stoker Award and won a World Fantasy award for best collection of short stories. Angry Candy Angry Candy is a 1988 collection of short stories by American writer Harlan Ellison, loosely organized around the theme of death. The title comes the last line of the poem ""the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls"" by E. E. Cummings, ""...the/ moon rattles like a fragment of angry candy."" The collection contains the"
"Adam (1992 film) Adam is a 1992 British 6-minute stop motion clay animated short film written, animated and directed by Peter Lord of Aardman Animations. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Short , and won the equivalent award at BAFTA in 1992 as well as the Annecy International Animated Film Festival in 1993. It is based on the beginning of the Book of Genesis. It was distributed by Aardman Animations. The film is a ""spoof of the creation of life"". Adam is a man who is created by the Hand of God and is put on"
"essays from Barker-centric contributors such as Peter H. Gilmore and Nicholas Vince, as well as artwork by Barker himself and a sizable appendix of scholarly footnotes by horror philosopher Eugene Thacker. Cabal (novella) Cabal is a 1988 horror novel by the British author Clive Barker. It was originally published in the United States as part of a collection comprising a novel and several short stories from Barker's sixth and final volume of the ""Books of Blood"". The book was adapted into the film ""Nightbreed"" in 1990, written and directed by Barker himself, starring Craig Sheffer and David Cronenberg. Boone, a"
"sadomasochistic experiments. Although Clive Barker wrote the original story, and also wrote and directed the first film, he has not written or directed any of the succeeding sequels. Barker stated that he signed away the story and character rights to the production company before the first film, not realizing what a great success it would be. In the original ""Hellraiser"" (1987), Frank Cotton (Sean Chapman) escapes from the Cenobites when his brother Larry (Andrew Robinson) spills his own blood on the spot where Frank died opening a puzzle box that opened a gateway to the Cenobites. With the help of"
"Paperman Paperman is a 2012 American black-and-white computer-cel animated romantic comedy short film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios and directed by John Kahrs. The short blends traditional and computer animation, and won both the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film at the 85th Academy Awards and the Annie Award for Best Animated Short Subject at the 40th Annie Awards. ""Paperman"" was the first animated short film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios to win an Academy Award since ""It's Tough to Be a Bird"" in 1970. A young accountant named George is standing on an elevated train platform"
"of the Clive Barker movie ""Candyman"", and was composed for that film by noted composer Philip Glass. Also American Horror Story creator Ryan Murphy is good friends with Clive Barker and have help each other on Bill Condon's film ""Gods and Monsters"". ""Spilt Milk"" was watched by 2.51 million viewers and received an adult 18–49 rating of 1.5, higher than the previously aired episode. Rotten Tomatoes reports a 88% approval rating, based on 17 reviews. The critical consensus reads, """"Spilt Milk"" offers freshly enticing plots, grossly insane shocks, and an almost-happy resolution."" Todd VanDerWerff of ""The A.V. Club"" thought the"
"last anyone heard until news of """" surfaced."" Hellraiser Hellraiser is a 1987 British-American horror film written and directed by Clive Barker, and produced by Christopher Figg, based on Barker's novella ""The Hellbound Heart"". The film marked Barker's directorial debut. The film involves the resurrection of Frank (Sean Chapman), who had opened the door to an alternate dimension and had his body torn to pieces by creatures known as Cenobites. Years later, Frank's brother Larry (Andrew Robinson) moves into their late mother's abandoned house with new wife Julia (Clare Higgins). An accident causes some of Larry's blood to spill on"
"Casterman in 1986. Since that point, several other cartoonists, such as Yves Rodier, have produced their own finished, unauthorized versions of the story. Critical reception of the work has been mixed; some commentators on ""The Adventures of Tintin"" have believed that ""Tintin and Alph-Art"" would have been an improvement over much of Hergé's later work, while others have characterised this as wishful thinking. Tintin and Captain Haddock receive a phone call from their friend, the opera singer Bianca Castafiore, who informs them about a new spiritual leader whom she has begun following, Endaddine Akass, stating her intention to stay at"
"The Sandman (short story) ""The Sandman"" (, 1816) is a short story written in German by . It was the first in an 1817 book of stories titled ""Die Nachtstücke"" (""The Night Pieces""). The story is told by a narrator who claims to have known Lothar. It begins by quoting three letters: 1. A letter from Nathanael to Lothar, the brother of his fiancée, Clara. Nathanael recalls his childhood terror of the legendary Sandman, who was said to steal the eyes of children who would not go to bed and feed them to his own children who lived in the"
"The Boogeyman (short story) ""The Boogeyman"" is a short story by Stephen King, first published in the March 1973 issue of the magazine ""Cavalier"", and later collected in King's 1978 collection ""Night Shift"". The majority of the story occurs in the office of Dr. Harper, a psychiatrist, where a man named Lester Billings talks to the doctor about the ""murders"" of his three young children. Billings seems paranoid and possibly schizophrenic as he describes the circumstances of the death of his children. His first two children died mysteriously of apparently unrelated causes (diagnosed as crib death and convulsions, respectively) when"
"for Fiction; and ""Sugar Cane"" (1993), a sequel to ""Gabriel's Lament"". ""Kitty and Virgil"" (1998) is the story of the relationship between an Englishwoman and an exiled Romanian poet. In ""Uncle Rudolf"" (2002), the narrator looks back on his colourful life and his rescue as a young boy from a likely death in fascist Romania, by his uncle, a gifted lyric tenor and the novel's eponymous hero. In his book ""Chapman's Odyssey"" (2011), the main character, Harry Chapman, in morphine-induced delirium, encounters characters from literature, writers, deceased friends and family members as he lies seriously ill in a London hospital."
"Wonka Bar The Wonka Bar is both a fictional candy bar, introduced as a key story point in the 1964 novel ""Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"" by Roald Dahl, and a type of consumer product candy bar inspired by the fictional confection. Wonka Bars appear in both film adaptations of the novel, ""Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory"" (1971) and ""Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"" (2005), and the play ""Charlie and the Chocolate Factory the Musical"" (2013) each with different packaging. Varieties of Wonka Bars were subsequently manufactured and sold in the real world, formerly by the Willy Wonka Candy"