Candyman (1992 film)

"[A supernatural Helen appears behind Trevor] What's the matter, Trevor? Scared of something? [Proceeds to slash Trevor with a Candyman hook]"

"[Convincing Bernadette to visit the Cabrini-Green projects] Okay, let's just turn around then. Let's just go back, and we can write a nice little, boring thesis regurgitating all the usual crap about urban legend. We've got a real shot here, Bernadette. An entire community starts attributing the daily horrors of their lives to a mythical figure."

"YOU LIED TO ME!"

"[Reading graffiti aloud] Sweets... to... the sweet?"

"[To Orderly leaving with her strapped to hospital bed] Where are you going?! No, you can't leave me here! I can't defend myself!"

"[To Helen knocking mirror out of medicine cabinet] Helen, be careful! The could be somebody on the toilet!"

"[Giving a University lecture] Now, why would Danny and Diane both be suffering from the same delusion in two cities over 1,000 miles apart? Let's face it, folks. There are no alligators in the sewers. No, it's... It's around the campfire. It's bedtime stories. See, these stories are modern oral folklore. They are the unselfconscious reflection of the fears of urban society."

"[Narrating over swarm of bees] They will say that I have shed innocent blood. What's blood for if not for shedding? With my hook for a hand, I'll split you from your groin to your gullet. I came for you."

"[To Helen] I am the writing on the wall, the whisper in the classroom. Without these things, I am nothing. So now, I must shed innocent blood. Come with me."

"[Dancing with Helen] The pain, I can assure you, will be exquisite. As for our deaths, there is nothing to fear. Our names will be written on a thousand walls. Our crimes told and retold by our faithful believers. We shall die together in front of their very eyes and give them something to be haunted by. Come with me and be immortal. [Candyman opens jacket to reveal a hollow chest and a mouth full of bees]"

"[To Helen seeing herself in a wall drawing] It was always you, Helen. It was always you."

"[Showing her the hook on his bloody stump] Be my victim. Be my victim."

"[To Helen over wanting to live] Why do you want to live? If you had learned just a little from me, you would not beg to live. I am rumor. It is a blessed condition, believe me. To be whispered about at street corners. To live in other people's dreams, but not to have to be. Do you understand?"

"[To Helen that her death will be a tale to frighten children] Your death will be a tale to frighten children, to make lovers cling closer in their rapture. Come with me, and be immortal."

"[Walking up to Helen as she remains hypnotized by him] You were not content with the stories, so I was obliged to come."

"COME BACK TO ME, HELEN! COME BACK TO ME! COME BACK!"

"This is the scariest story I ever heard and it's totally true. It happened a few years ago near Moses Lake in Indiana. Clara was babysitting for the Johnsons, and, uh... Billy pulls up on his motorcycle. She wasn't even going out with Billy, she was actually going out with Michael for about six months. But, um... she always kind of had the hots for Billy, 'cause he was like a bad boy. And Michael was... he was just so nice. So anyway, she decides that tonight's the night, that she's going to give Billy what she never gave to Michael."

"[Reciting to Helen and colleagues the legend of Candyman in a restaurant] The legend first appeared in 1890. Candyman was the son of a slave. His father had amassed a considerable fortune from designing a device for the mass producing of shoes after the Civil War. Candyman had been sent to all the best schools and had grown up in polite society. He had a prodigious talent as an artist and was much sought after when it came to the documenting of one's wealth and position in society in a portrait. Well, it was in this latter capacity, that he was commissioned by a wealthy landowner to capture his daughter's virginal beauty. Well, of course, they fell deeply in love and she became pregnant. Hmm... poor Candyman. Her father executed a terrible revenge. He paid a pack of brutal hooligans to do the deed. They chased Candyman through the town to Cabrini Green, where they proceeded to saw off his right hand with a rusty blade. And no one came to his aid. For this was just the beginning of his ordeal. Nearby there was an apiary. Dozens of hives, filled with hungry bees. They smashed the hive and stole the honeycomb and smeared it over his prone, naked body. Candyman was stung to death by the bees. They burned his body on a giant pyre and then scattered his ashes over Cabrini Green."

"[Referring to a Candyman's victim boy whose crotch was hacked off by the Candyman] They found 'it' floating in the toilet... can't fix that, you're better off dead."

"You say you're doing a study? What 'you gonna study? How we're bad? We steal? We gang-bang? We're ALL on drugs right?... We ain't all like them assholes downstairs, you know. I just wanna raise my child good."

"[Reciting Candyman with Billy who is touches her body from behind then turns around to face Billy] No one ever got past four."

"[To Helen in haunted washroom] I hear you're looking for Candyman, bitch. [Holds Helen by her neck] Well, you found him! [Swings the back of his hook across her face]"

"Virginia Madsen as Helen Lyle"

"Tony Todd as The Candyman"

"Xander Berkeley as Trevor Lyle"

"Kasi Lemmons as Bernadette Walsh"

"Vanessa Williams as Anne-Marie McCoy"

"DeJuan Guyas Jake"

"Marianna Elliott as Clara"

"Ted Raimi as Billy"

"Ria Pavia as Monica"

"Mark Daniels as Student"

"Lisa Ann Poggi as Diane"

"Adam Philipson as Danny"

"Eric Edwards as Harold"

"Carolyn Lowery as Stacey"

"Barbara Alstonas Henrietta Mosely"

"Sarina C. Grant as Kitty Culver"

"You don't have to believe... just beware."

"Candyman, Candyman, Candyman, Candyman... Don't Say Again!"

"From the chilling imagination of Clive Barker."