20 Horror Movies That Fall Apart In The Final Act

2021's Candyman legacy sequel is in a similar boat to The Belko Experiment, in that 90 minutes wasn't enough time to tell the story this movie wanted to tell.

In this one, Chicago-based artist Anthony (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II) becomes obsessed with the Candyman legend, and this inadvertently releases a new wave of Candyman murders, albeit ones carried out by a different spirit to the one seen in the older films. As this movie explains, there's actually a Candyman Hive, with multiple ghosts of wronged African-Americans wreaking vengeance on the living. 

For a while, Candyman (2021) is absolutely fine, then it stuffed around an hour's worth of story into the final half-hour, and the whole enterprise fell apart. Things such as Anthony transforming into a new Candyman and the reveal that a supporting character named William (Colman Domingo) is trying to facilitate this are painfully rushed, too many things are left unexplained (for example, why did Anthony start transforming into Candyman after being stung by a bee?), and the original Candyman (the late, great Tony Todd) is given an insultingly brief cameo of just a few seconds. 

Unsurprisingly, no further Candyman movies have emerged since.