Unlike what many would believe, Cabrini-Green was not immortalized by The Candyman (1992) as a dreadful place where all kinds of horrors co-existed.
Rather it was the latter that capitalized on the realities of the dreadful neighborhood that provided the space for the myth of the Candyman to materialize.
While the trend of widely seen movies popularizing real-world locations is a perennial one, in the case of Bernard Rose’s horror classic The Candyman, it is the movie that should thank the location for the contribution it made.
The real history of the Cabrini-Green housing project, which proved to be a breeding ground for crime and neglect, provided the perfect setting for the myth of the Candyman to evolve.
The neighborhood that became a symbol of poorly developed housing projects across the United States had all the real-world horrors to contribute to the reel-world horror of The Candyman movies.
At the 30th anniversary of The Candyman,
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