Candyman

"They will say that I have shed innocent blood... What's blood for, if not for shedding?"

- ---Candyman The Candyman was the titular main antagonist of the 1992 slasher horror movie of the same name and its sequels, based of off the short story "The Forbidden" form the anthology book Books of Blood, written by Clive Barker. Although a brutal killer and a vengeful spirit, Candyman has an especially tragic past compared to most horror icons, which arguably made him more sympathetic - though he was nevertheless just as dangerous and deadly as any other slasher movie antagonist.

Candyman takes up the form of a lean and really tall African-American man, six feet and five inches, easily dwarfing over all the other characters in the Candyman movies. His attire consists of a large, brown fur trenchcoat, a white cravat around his neck, gray pants, a pair of polished leather shoes and a bloody hook in place for his right hand, which he uses to mutilate his victims. His trenchcoat is used in order to conceal his grotesque mutilations, the product of the torture that he suffered shortly before his death. Underneath it reveals candyman's skinless ribcage and hollowed-out abdomen, as well as his internal organs that are being infested by the many bees living within him. His hair is jet-black and curly, but kept very short.

Candyman used to be a slave whose owner humiliated him by covering his skin with bee wax and cutting off his hand, leading a large group of bees to attack him. The attack resulted in his death, but making him a demon that haunted around the mortal world seeking for revenge on mankind which he'd lost faith in. Due to unclear reasons, he could only be summoning up by saying his name five times before a mirror, in this way he became a mysterious urban legend that fascinated a number of people.

In brief, as with Clive Barker's earlier slasher icon, Pinhead, the character of Candyman was intentionally designed to be very charismatic and articulate, his main source of fear being derived from his warped sense of reasoning.