Welcome to Screen Gems, our weekend dive into queer and queer-adjacent titles of the past that deserve a watch or a re-watch.With the new Candyman revival/sequel packing in movie houses this weekend, we find it time to revisit the original film that started it all.
Candyman began life as a story from queer horror writer Clive Barker, the brilliant, macabre mind behind Hellraiser, Nightbreed and Lord of Illusions.
Readers and critics often note Barker’s characteristic intertwining of sex and death, pain and pleasure, magic and horror. And, of course, Barker loves to work in some good ‘ole fashioned homoeroticism too.Writer/director Bernard Rose adapts Candyman from Barker’s original story The Forbidden, transplanting from Britain to the.