Candyman is a vengeful ghostly murderer who appears behind anyone who says his name five times in a mirror and kills them with his hook for a right hand. While Helen is initially dismissive of the ...

playing the bloodthirsty ghost of a murdered Black man who wore a hook for a hand and terrorized a Chicago public housing project. (He went on to play Candyman again in a number of sequels ...

Romero’s iconic 1968 original. His next big role likely is his most famous — playing the mythical title creep with a hook for a hand in Candyman (1992) — a character he reprised in the 2021 ...