[SymbioticFunction]

Watched the new Candyman film. My blu-ray has a front cover quote from Alan Jones describing it as the best horror film of the year. I wouldn't go that far but I did like it. Despite the misleading repeating movie title, this is most definitely a sequel entry and not a remake. There's quite a lot of references to the original movie and it is certainly better than Candyman 2 (I've never seen Candyman 3).

There's a couple of moments where a retelling of past events wasn't quite accurate but I'm pretty sure that's just to show that urban legends are often mutated from truth. One thing did drive me nuts: that a character wouldn't go to hospital with a bad infection much earlier, or that other characters wouldn't also be saying "you need to go to a hospital." But I can still recommend this.

btw I was confused by the film's opening studio logos being backwards but then I realised that it was meant to be a mirror image.