Clive Barker

This hit 1992 slasher centers on The Candyman - a murderous soul with a hook for a hand, the son of a slave killed in the late 19th century - who is accidentally summoned (by saying his name five times in the mirror) by a sociology student (Virginia Madsen) researching the monster's myth.

Surreal horror, the debut film from Clive Barker - based on his own novella. An unfaithful wife encounters the zombie of her dead lover, who's being chased by demons after he escaped from their sado-masochistic Hell.