Candyman 3: Day of the Dead

Candyman 3: Day of the Dead is a straight-to-video franchise entry that lost almost everything that made the original special, and there's little reason to seek it out beyond franchise curiosity. Tony Todd remains committed to the role and gives it more dignity than the material deserves, but the film reduces Candyman's tragic racial history to background noise in favor of a generic slasher plot involving corrupt cops and a stolen art collection. Shot on a budget under a million dollars in eighteen days, the seams show constantly, and the racial commentary that gave the first two films real weight is almost entirely absent here. It's watchable in the way most direct-to-video 90s horror sequels are watchable, which is to say barely. For completionists only.