Candyman is a Black Lives Matter film; it is a protest film; it is a horror; it is a satire. It riffs constantly on Say Their Names; it is about historical trauma caused by state-sanctioned anti-Black racism. No one's saying the new Candyman is bad. But it gets those three-stars-a-good-film-but &

Within Houston Heights, an outwardly average and friendly guy, Dean Corll, worked locally as an electrician. Corll was known to residents as The Candy Man,  a nickname he'd earned himself from working at his mother's candy company when he was younger.