Even more intriguing to her is the fact that her own apartment building was designed exactly like Cabrini-Green she learns that it was intended as another housing development, but eventually the idea was scrapped when the developers realized that the location was too desirable Helen and Bernie theorize that the white developers relocated the housing project to a more forbidding area that would keep the ghetto separated from the rest of the city. The mention of the murders leads Helen to research it in archived newspapers, and she finds out the names of the victims. The people of Cabrini-Green have attributed the deaths to Candyman, as the victims have been butchered with a weapon determined to be a hook. Grant), who tells Helen about the murders that have taken place in Cabrini-Green, Chicago, the low income housing project where she lives. Henrietta Mosely (Barbara Alston) calls in another cleaning woman, Kitty Calver (Sarina C. As Helen reviews the recorded conversation in an empty classroom one night at the university, a cleaning woman overhears the story about Candyman and pays special attention to it. Then, she turns off the light and right behind her, Candyman's appears and kills her with her hooked arm. Billy only repeats it four times but when she is left alone in the bathroom, getting ready to lose her virginity to Billy and not Michael, her "too good" boyfriend, Clara repeats the name a fifth time. Clara (Marianna Elliott) dares rebel other-boyfriend Billy (Ted Raimi) to repeat Candyman's name five times in front of the mirror while she's babysitting the Johnson family's baby. The legend goes that Candyman will appear behind you if you say his name five times while looking in a mirror. One young woman tells them a story about "Candyman", a mythical being who has a hook instead of a right hand. Helen and Bernie have been interviewing numerous people about various 'urban legend' type stories. Her husband, Trevor Lyle (Xander Berkeley), is a university professor, of whom she suspects infidelity with one of his younger students, and we suspect her home life isn't quite satisfying, despite the fact that she seems to be very much in love with Trevor.
Helen Lyle (Virginia Masden) is an affluent young woman who is working with her good friend Bernadette "Bernie" Walsh (Kasi Lemmons), on a master's thesis involving modern folklore.The synopsis below may give away important plot points.