Jeff Ewing is a critic, entertainment journalist, interviewer, and screenwriter in LA with a life-long love of horror and film history. He has an M.S. in Sociology from the University of Oregon, and a ...

Do you dare say his name in front of a mirror? You probably wouldn't go through with it if British filmmaker Bernard Rose, the writer and director of the original "Candyman" movie, had his way in 1992 ...

Story time - when I was a kid, my older brother would scare me to death by going in the bathroom and turning off the lights and saying, Bloody Mary, over and over again. (SOUNDBITE OF MICHAEL RIESMAN ...

Tony Todd, an American actor known for leading the “Candyman” horror franchise as its eponymous hook-wielding ghost, died Wednesday at his home in Marina Del Rey, Calif. He was 69. Todd’s death was ...

Bernard Rose's 1992 horror classic "Candyman," an American reimagining of Clive Barker's short story "The Forbidden," was about an ambitious graduate student named Helen (Virginia Madsen) who trekked ...