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  • this song made me cry idont know why

  • praise satan

  • @Adarvuli What. The. Fvck.

  • Be my victim....

  • IT WAS ALWAYS YOU HELEN

  • This movie was more depressing than scary to me. Candyman was more of a tragic character than an evil villain in my eyes.

  • such an amazing movie..

  • the candyman, he was misjudged, damn people then didnt want their candy doesn't mean you gotta take it out on a guy who sells them

  • Super muzyczka z dobrego filmu,polecam.

  • thumps up for anyone who went to the bathroom and said candyman 5 times and nothing happened

  • @WolfGirl8561 But something did happen.

  • @WolfGirl8561

    I still WILL NOT do that, and i'm 27.

  • @WolfGirl8561 i had to thumb u down - from in the mirror

  • @WolfGirl8561 are you crazy  ?!

  • this song is very touching i would say

  • Its creepy songs like this that make me wish I could play the piano.

  • Wonderful movie... I saw it last year . It was deeply scary .. and helen's fate is so sad !

  • This might be mentioned in earlier comments, but.. the first 6 notes of the 8 note main hook (the da-da-da-da dut dut) is the sample used for the hip hop track 'I Ain't Mad At Cha' by Tupac Shakur. I was searching where that sample originated and it led me to Philip Glass's 'Helen's Theme' which led me here. The sample is used in a lot of RnB songs, notably 'A Dream' by Debarge. Actually the Tupac sample is taken from the Debarge track which was taken from the Philip Glass track.

  • @truedub6 :) awesome

  • 8 people said "Candyman" five times.

  • it's kinda a christmas song,i think

  • i find this alot more scarier than an ordinary horror movie theme song beacuse.

    i know the movie itself is much worse than the beautiful music.

    the bee in the eye is way bizare too

  • Anyone else thinking of Nicolas Cage in Wickerman screaming "NOT THE BEES!"

  • @skwisgaar16 Now I do.

  • Candyman was released in 1992. In 1991, the wife of the composer, Philip Glass, passed away suddenly. Her name was Candy. She was an artist who collected street detritus, including crack vials similar to what you would find littering the grounds of Cabrini Green. "Helen's Theme" bears a distinct resemblance to his theme for Orphee, also written that year. Orphee, of course, being the story of the man who descended to the underworld to find his wife, only to lose her a second time.

  • This film wasn't scary for me.

    And its still better by far than 9/10 of the ones I've seen recently. 

  • ...I need to buy contact lenses like that...

  • who would win chuckyvs candyman. candyman. actully candyman is my favorite horror movie guy

  • thsi guy is AWSOME hes my fav killer

  • beutiful slasher peice of art music.

  • I love themes like this... So deceptively beautiful.

    It's like the theme of Cannibal Holocaust.... Cannibal Holocaust is one of the most violent and controversial films ever created, but its theme song is so peaceful.

  • This movie needs an epic revamp to attract the right amount of attention that it so clearly deserves. The first film is somewhat of a ground breaking piece, in my mind - The third act of the film is so haunting on screen, and is only amplified by it's wondrous score.

  • @Drratburn

    If they remade it....I think I'd want a closer adaptation to the original short story.

    Set it in England.

    In the original, Candyman didn't need to be summoned. Helen met him because she doubted his existence and he felt obliged to show himself to her.

    He even promises not to kill her, he just wanted a kiss.

    It's very hard to read, especially since the element of the baby-napping is present in the story too, albeit in a very very very different way.

  • @DrStrangefate I honestly didn't know that Clive Barker adapted this from content that wasn't his own. What's the original book titled? Is it a good read? Worth checking out?

  • @Drratburn

    No he wrote it.

    It's his short story called The Forbidden from his Books of Blood.

    Clive Barker is a brilliant writer. If you haven't read Boos of Blood, I suggest picking up the volume collections.

  • @DrStrangefate

    *Books of Blood

  • Its beautiful and haunting.

  • said his name 5 times in the mirror about an hour ago so far so g.............

  • Be my victim!!!!

  • this sounds more happy than scary, like you're in heaven and this song plays. but i'm not saying his name alone to the mirror in the dark with light upon me

  • @kyawmawthu That's I think a big part of the weird feeling this movie, and this music gives you. It's horrifying... yet this sounds so romantic, or at least beautiful. There's even a sort of lovely element to the way Candyman describes killing as making one immortal.

    This movie is SEVERELY underanalyzed by the majority of viewers. It's sad.

  • Such a brilliant, passionate, sad, beautiful song

  • if you plan on going out with a bang, say his name 3 times in the mirror in the dark with like light only on you

  • @kyawmawthu then say it 2 more times and then get murdered:)

  • lovely the music and movie

  • candyman has a horrific beutiful huanting theme.

  • candyman is awsome

  • We can thank our lucky stars that Clive Barker was born.

    If you like Candyman (The Forbidden)

    Then please read Clive Barker's other works. He's truly a gifted horror/fantasy author.

    Goes without saying that this movie is a classic of the 90's.

  • I love this song. To bad helen died. :P

  • this movie got me interested in the Cabrini-Green housing projects. what a real-life terrifying place.........I saw nothing but bad stories about the place so please feel free to correct me if I'm wrong

  • @abcumm25

    No that sounds about right lol

    Cabrini-Green was trouble from the very beginning.

    So glad they chose to film ON LOCATION! Very bold.

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  • ESSA MUSIQA ÉER FODA

  • I watched this at 2 in the morning and never really understood the bloody mary alike curse, i just thought he came randomly

  • This film among the best horror films I've ever seen. Criminally underanalyzed, the direction and writing that went into this are often overlooked by people who take it at face value as a (still very frightening) horror film. Truly wonderful. I love this film, and I LOVE the music.

  • why can't more horror movies be like this one? This movie was in a class all of its own.

  • god I love this movie

  • i love the music in the background it's so hypnotizing. I'm going to try to learn it on the piano lol....

  • "Because, IIIIIIIII'm Mike!"

  • Phil Glass for the muthafuckin win!

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  • is this supposed to be scary? cuz i love it its so relaxing =w=

  • @Sweetcuppcake30 Well, movie was horror movie, but killers background story is kinda sad, this music is played on when that story is told by Candyman, so i would guess its meant to be more sad, that scary

  • @Sweetcuppcake30 It will catch you after awhile.

  • what is this movie about i never seen it

  • @MIGU3L2K well to break it down to you, its about an urban legand about this guy who was brutally killed along time ago and if you say candyman 5 times in a mirror, you aparently call him... so this lady calls him and know has to deal with a lot of sreious crap... its a realy good movie

  • @bronteburger196 oh thnx

  • @MIGU3L2K It's a loose adaptation of a short story called The Forbidden by the great horror author Clive Barker. Basically a former slave turned artist was brutally murdered by a mob of white people on the grounds of what eventually became Cabrini-Green (retconned later in the sequel) and can now be summoned by calling his name 5 times in a mirror, but to summon him means becoming his next victim as he splits you "from groin to gullet" quite literally. Great horror flick from the early 90's

  • @DrStrangefate yea i watched farewell to the flesh it tells his story

  • 0:00-0:18 ..BEST PART EVER

  • 0:01-0:18 ..BEST PART EVER

  • tourretts guy,tourretts guy,tourretts guy,tourretts guy,tourretts guy

  • Tyrone King,Tyrone King,Tyrone King,Tyrone King,Tyrone King.

    Holy Shit TK is a Zombie!(Dead Rising 2).

  • A rather unusual piece of music for a slasher movie. More artistic then you would expect, but then Candyman was a "cut" above your standard slasher/fantasy movie of the time.

  • @anythingbroadway unless I'm mistaken, the music is by Philip Glass. He is a cut above most composers in our times.

  • @anythingbroadway

    The magic of Philip Glass. I'm so glad Bernard Rose chose him to pen the score. The themes and cues are eerie, ethereal, and fucking frightening. When i saw this as a kid, I'd practically shit my pants everytime I heard this piano cue. Glass is a minimalist composer, not your average hollywood jagoff composer. He's made this iconic theme that stands right up there with John William's Jaws, Carpenters Halloween theme and Chris Young's Hellraiser Theme

  • @anythingbroadway I am wary of even calling this film a slasher movie. I would think of it as more akin to a psychological horror or a ghost movie. Either way, its one hell of a piece of horror.

  • @anythingbroadway the movie dealt with a fictional urban legend that never existed.. I live outside of chicago. the area that used to be there where they filmed it is a lot scarier than the movie itself... it was already post apocalyptic to say the least and that was when the movie was made...

  • @anythingbroadway

    Thats what you get when you get Phillip Glass to do your music.

  • heroin,heroin,heroin,heroin,he­roin!

    WELL WERE IS IT!!!!

  • The best musical pieces in the history of mankind will and forever eternally be born of a piano.

  • i havent seen this movie in a long time and probaly will never will but you never know

    she did beat him right?

  • @spanishranger1 she burned to death, embodied candyman and now carries his hook slaughtering the residents of the forgotten cabrini-green housing projects

  • Piękny utworek

    

  • that first piano thing sounds like the synth in "Cant Be Touched Roy Jones Jr. hahahahaha

  • i have lot of movie music to trade, like candyman, grudge, the ring, the signs, 28 weeks later. and im looking sixth sense and poltergeist sheet:) i have over 10 000 diferent song sheets, so message me and ask something.

  • Freakin awesome music. Really set the mood for the movie! Philip Glass outdid himself on this!

  • Great music, thanks!

  • @SlashinatorX Silence of the Lambs was not a better movie than Candyman lol

  • @MichaelLeroi that is debatable.

  • Dear top two commentators,

    nobody gives a fuck. We all know this as the Candyman theme so FUCK OFF.

    Yours sincerely,

    00woolley.

  • When I was a young kid, this film terrified me. But having watched it very recently, I actually found the film to be very sad. Helen's fate was reflective of Candyman's fate, and I found that very saddening.

  • one thing i MUST do in my life, is learn how to play this on the piano... that wud make me happy lol

  • @1SWINZ1  Very Easy to play this on piano you will have no trouble at all :)

  • Such an epic theme that tends to unnoticed, along with this movie...but it's so beautifully haunting..

  • Candyman is so damn polite!!! just like his white women

  • This was filmed at Cabrini–Green before it was renovated. There was a Young girl not long after this that was Raped & Poisoned in a stairwell, leaving her blind, paralyzed and mute. She was only 9 Years old.

    Before that, 7 year old Dantrell Davis was killed by a stray bullet on his way to school with his mother. The street where he was killed has been named after him & is still there now.

    1992 - The same year this was released. So the Candyman may be fictional, but 50+ others have died there. 

  • @therealKINDLE I agree. Candyman as a villain seemed a bit ineffectual in the film, considering that his motive is to get people to believe in him, and he's in a setting where so many horrible things happen, people become unaffected by them. He only killed three people (including the kid in the flashback) in the film. If he wanted people to believe, he should have gone through the mental hospital, slaughtering everyone he came across. He is a ghost, after all.

  • @Mkoberland It isn't just a motive. In the story, Candyman states that his entire existence is based around belief. Normally, that's enough for him; to merely exist in the world. However, Helen was outright trying to disprove his existence.

    It ties to the theme touched on in Hellraiser: It is not merely the call, it is the call plus intent. Helen, and many characters who called him, called him so that they disprove him. And he made damn sure his existence was proven to those that mattered.

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    justin bieber

    justin bieber

    justin bieber

    justin bieber

    OMG!! its a faggot

  • love piano music this is just great

  • i once heard a Bay area rapper used this song as part of his beat it sound so kick ass . this is a cool song love it .

  • @oaklandlatinosunited That's awesome!!!

  • @oaklandlatinosunited as much as i hate rap. that's pretty fucking cool.

  • Great movie...

  • Amazing...Candyman is an awesome movie!

  • This film is the perfect horror film....Love, Horror, Gore, Lust, Belonging. Its perfect xx

  • candyman is nice as a gentlemen

  • nah i said it in the mirror as well and my mum was behind me it fuckin freaked me out but i love the film so much

  • Beautiful , sad and scary all the same time , great theme

  • The forbidden love of a slave, the torture and death of an inoccent, the resurrection of a vengeful monster. what an awesome story. perfectly captured by this song. damn good. damn good.

  • candyman

    candyman

    candyman

    candyman

    candyman

    oh no i said it 5 times

  • @stlush123123456 has to be in a mirror. ur safe lol

  • what an awesome song. my friends hated the movie and they said philip glass didn't make good songs from this film. i always tell them i loved this film and philip glass made awseome music for this film.

  • i listen to this alot.... love the film, reading the short story rite now!

  • biggysmalls,biggysmals,biggysm­als,biggysmals,biggysmalls

  • @gamerboy218 lmao southpark.

    

  • beautiful song

  • ..........I AM PARALYZED!!!! This song creeps me out every time!

  • lmao at the biggie comment too, lmao utube is hilarious

  • amazing creepy song o.O ...scary and sadness

  • Ohhhh it is amazing

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  • When watch the Film you Realize Candyman isn't the Bad Guy.

  • Biggie Smalls...

    Biggie Smalls...

    Biggie Smalls?

  • Dear two top commenters,

    Face.

    Beatlejuice.

    That's all.

  • @ilovesaw9 Beetlejuice that's definately all!!!

  • I think I heard a music box cover of this song o:

  • Bloody Mary!

    Bloody Mary!

    Bloody Mary!

    You see nothing is..............

  • IT WAS ALWAYS YOU, HELEN. IT WAS ALWAYS YOU

  • This song is beautiful and creepy <3

  • CANDYMAN

    CANDYMAN

    CANDYMAN

    CANDYMAN

    CANDYMAN

    HAHA I TOLD YOU S

  • HELEN

    HELEN

    HELEN

    HELEN

    HELEN....

    *Click* SHIITTT!!!

  • I just saw this film and it ROCKS. It would have been a better experience if i had watched it at a young age but Oh well.

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  • Candyman

    Candyman

    Candyman

    Candyman

    Candy Mann

    Yeah !!! In your face !!!

  • Candle Jack, Candle Jack, Candle Ja

  • the candyman movies are among the most underrated horror/thriller flicks IMO, the idea and the whole story is very original, and quite unique, not just a bandwagon slasher/horror but it`s own distinct story/killer. it legitimately scared me to go and try saying 5 times the word candyman in front of a mirror, and if a movie can enter your psyche it is excellent work.

  • @CHUUMPASS first one is, not the others so much though.

  • when the choir / voices come in it kinda reminds me of Edward scissorhands lol...

  • This song is amazing

  • I never tough I would say this about a horror movie theme song...

    but this is so beautiful it actually made my eyes tear up

  • Chica"don't"go.

  • The beauty of this soundtrack is only explained by the deeper ethical subtext to the story in the film on the abuse of slaves in the south.

  • sounds like my church lol

    

  • This is the only film that has ever genuinely shit me up. I was 7, but still. Nothing comes close.

  • @stixflix06 This and Exorcist are still the only 2 that still send chills through my spine. I'm a grown man now... yeah, they both still do it for me.

  • @bobshugah exorcist is definitely a good shout, i didn't see that til around the same age. I remember my dad telling me how it was in the cinema's when it came out in '73 - people throwing up and everything haha.

  • @stixflix06 "people throwing up and everything" (o.O) That seen where she walks backwards on her arms and legs up the stairs- It still makes me cringe in fear.

  • @bobshugah He was actually not joking.When the Exorcism came out it was considered the grossest movie ever made.When you entered the cinema,they gave you a plastic bag in case you feel like throwing up.

  • this might sound wierd to put i love this tune lol

    

  • @theangeldark.

    Clive Barker is weird. He enjoys Horrific visuals and noises, but when it comes to music people like Coil are "too creepy" for movies like Hellraiser. This theme is just bizarre and terrible horror movie theme. This hints at lurking darkness, and that's fine if it's a theme for say, a Hitchcock film... But a stupid, fun and brutal film like Candyman? No. Bad idea.

  • Candyman was on today it is on tomorrow yay

  • @superstar123264

    What channel?

  • Bloody Marry, Bloody Marry, Bloody Marry!

  • Betelgeuse, Betelgeuse, Betelgeuse!

  • @Horrorman5 Are you saying Beetlejuice?

  • @biggtroy101 Yep

    

  • @Horrorman5 i thought there was a j

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  • the hardstyle version is good

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  • amy winehouse amy winehouse amy winehouse ooo omg its really you. yer its me thay tried to make me go to rehab i said no no no