Catherine Jane Holzer

都市伝説について研究している大学院生のヘレンは、黒人居住区に伝わる「キャンディマン」の伝説を調査していた。「キャンディマン」とは、鏡の前でその名前を5回唱えると現れ、名前を呼んだ者を右腕に取り付けた鉤爪で殺害するという、伝説の殺人鬼であった。 その伝説に懐疑的だったヘレンは、面白半分に鏡の前で「キャンディマン」の名前を5回唱えてしまう。それを境に、彼女の周囲で奇怪な殺人事件が次々と起きるようになる。

Roger Dollison, a police officer, and his wife, Kendra, are living the American dream. They have two children, Teddy and Sandy, a lovely home, and a dog named Rex. What they know and how they live as a family is irreparably changed one day when it is discovered that a classmate of Teddy's is the apparent victim of sexual abuse and molestation at the respected neighborhood daycare center. Like all other parents, the Dollisons are tormented — "we should have known, we should have seen" — but their devastation is complete when Teddy tells his own story, one he promised his abusers he would never tell.