A good modern horror film, full of guts and gore, but scary enough to make you fight shy of the bathroom cabinet mirror when you go to bed. Virginia Madsen again demonstrates her amazing range, in an anguished role far from her sometimes glamorous image. She's a mature student who opens up a particularly disgusting can of worms when she calls up the vast black phantom known as Candyman who guts his victims from, well, ear to there. British director Bernard Rose ensures that there are not too many uncalled-for giggles in the bloodsoaked but (by the standards of the genre) logical developments that follow.

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