10 Horror Movie Romances That Make Love Terrifying
9. Candyman (1992)
“It was always you Helen” says Candyman (Tony Todd) in his trademark sexy voice, as we are shown the same phrase scrawled on the wall of his hideout. There’s a painted mural too, depicting Candyman and Helen (Virginia Madsen) but in nineteenth century attire.
Were Helen and Candyman lovers over a hundred years ago before his murder? Is this why he spends half the movie trying to convince Helen to join him in his afterlife dimension?
Candyman is a film that examines the nature of urban legends, asking whether they can become true by simply having enough people believe in them. As Helen probes deeper into the Candyman legend the Candyman himself soon appears, framing her for a series of grisly murders in the hopes that she will become his ghostly lover and partner in hook-based slaughter.
Does Helen will Candyman into existence by fuelling the fires of the legend? Or does Helen become so subsumed in these stories that she takes on the mantle of the Candyman and commits these crimes herself? “It was always you Helen”.
Whether you believe that Helen becomes Candyman or not, the pair leave a trail of bloodshed.
Their ambiguous relationship is another tantalizing part of the Candyman mythos, kept alive by the re-telling of the legend.