The Complete History of Candyman Official Trailer HD , A Bryn Hammond Documentary
From the critically acclaimed, bestselling author Bryn Curt James Hammond (A Case for Murder Brittany Murphy Files), Candyman History takes a critical look at the Candyman franchise that by turn came from a genre that so often utilised, caricatured, exploited, and embraced both black filmmakers and black audiences alike. The Complete History of Candyman begins with an overview of the heyday of horror and its sharp decline, solely down to the responsibility of the decay of the slasher subgenre, when all of Hollywood, from the sleaziest independent backstreet butcher to the highestpaid studio executive, was greenlighting any film that featured a masked psychopath, scores of 30 + something teenagers with a half decent set of lungs, an ample array of ways to die and, in the best of both worlds, all three. Candyman History then comes full circle by analysing the symbiotic relationship between the horror genre and the AfricanAmerican experience, and how Spike Lees masterpiece, Do the Right Thing, became the
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