Candyman: Day of the Dead (1999) on Netflix
Caroline McKeever, an artist in Los Angeles, is a descendant of Daniel Robitaille, the spirit known as Candyman. As the Day of the Dead nears, he wants her with him.
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Plot summary
In East Los Angeles, the barrio is getting ready for the Day of the Dead. Caroline McKeever is an artist and a direct descendant of Daniel Robitaille, the spirit known as Candyman, and the daughter of Annie Tarrant. She goes to a gallery show built around the legend, hosted by the artist Miguel Velasco, and speaks the name five times into a mirror. Her roommate Tamara hears what Caroline knows of the family line. Annie Tarrant called on the spirit before and left her daughter with one instruction: destroy the myth. As the Day of the Dead comes closer, the authorities start asking Caroline about the deaths that follow in her path.
Cast
- Ernie Hudson Jr.as Jamal Matthews
- Laura Mazuras Caroline Sullivan
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Candyman: Day of the Dead (1999)
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- After filming Candyman 3: Day of the Dead, there was no money left for an opening credits sequence, so the director and cinematographer blacked out a garage's windows and shot one at no extra cost using leftover film and Candyman's hook prop.
- Norman Gary, who handled the bees on the previous two Candyman films, was rehired for Day of the Dead; he was thought too expensive to bring back, but cut his fee because he wanted to stay with the franchise.
- The graffiti on the film's subway set was painted by real graffiti artists: crew caught a group tagging near the production and paid each of them $100 to reproduce their work on the set.
- Composer Adam Gorgoni planned to reuse themes from the first two Candyman films but had to write an entirely new score after the production was refused permission to use any of Philip Glass's music.
- According to the film's audio commentary, Candyman 3: Day of the Dead was shot in Boyle Heights, Eastside Los Angeles in 18 days, plus two or three for second unit, leaving the actors at most two takes per scene.
