Being Film #25 for Hooptober 2023

Sometimes context is everything. On its own I’ve always liked and admired Candyman, Bernard Rose’s adaptation of Clive Barker’s short story “The Forbidden” but watching it right after The People Under the Stairs I’m even more impressed. Here is a film that looks at the disparity between the haves and the have nots, the extent of white privilege and appropriation but doesn’t hit you over the head with it. Instead it all creeps out in the action and events that pry back the lid of urban legends to reveal a terrifying entity feeding off the cries and whispers and rumors emanating from the very people caught at the bottom rung of the economic ladder.

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