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From the critically acclaimed, bestselling author Bryn Curt James Hammond (A Case for Murder Brittany Murphy Files), Candyman History takes a critical look at the Candyman franchise that by turn came from a genre that so often utilised, caricatured, exploited, and embraced both black filmmakers and black audiences alike. The Complete History of Candyman begins with an overview of the heyday of horror and its sharp decline, solely down to the responsibility of the decay of the slasher sub-genre, when all of Hollywood, from the sleaziest independent backstreet butcher to the highest-paid studio executive, was green-lighting any film that featured a masked psychopath, scores of 30 something teenagers with a half decent set of lungs, an ample array of ways to die and, in the best of both worlds, all three. Candyman History then comes full circle by analysing the symbiotic relationship between the horror genre and the African-American experience, and how Spike Lee’s masterpiece, Do the Right Thing, became the
