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- From: dhentric@udcps3.cps.udayton.edu (David Hentrich)
- Newsgroups: alt.horror
- Subject: Re: "Candyman" and Clive Barker? [spoilers]
- Date: 1 Jan 1993 07:41:54 -0600
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- > If you stop reading here, my list of some of the interesting similarities
- > won't spoil the movie or story for you...
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- > Similarities Differences
- > ---------------------------------------------------
- > In both the movie and the story, most Ah, but the story is set in England
- > of the action is set in housing in a run-down project. The movie
- > projects. is set in Detroit in an extremely
- > impoverished urban high-rise.
-
- Uhhh, maybe I'm wrong (very well could be), but didn't the movie
- take place in Cabrinni Green in Chicago, not Detroit? Correct me if
- I'm wrong!
-
- [interesting comparison/contrast deleted for sake 'o bandwidth]
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- > Summary: Not as faithful an adaptation as "Misery" but much more faithful
- > than "The Lawnmower Man" (to pick two Stephen King adaptation
- > examples).
-
- I read somewhere that Stephen King is currently having his name
- legally removed from _The Lawnmower Man_!
-
- > Capsule Review: Candyman is a decent horror movie, not for the squeamish,
- > hurt by some clumsy scenes and an often ineffective Philip
- > Glass soundtrack. "The Forbidden" is not one of Barker's
- > best stories, since it's a little wordy and doesn't
- > develop all of the characters and situations effectively,
- > but it's still engrossing.
-
- Excellent review! I really liked the soundtrack, though!
-
- > [estephen] E. Stephen Mack estephen@netcom.com
-
- -- Dave Hentrich dhentric@udcps3.cps.udayton.edu
- -- Computer Science Undergrad
- -- University of Dayton
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