Download or read book Candyman written by Jon Towlson and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jon Towlson considers how Candyman might be read both as a "return of the repressed" and as an example of nineties neoconservative horror. He traces the film's origins as a Clive Barker short story; discusses the importance of its real-life Cabrini-Green setting; and analyzes its appropriation and interrogation of urban myth.