Where the hell did this come from?

Crankmonkey with an interesting observation on the film "Candyman," in short, "Why?" We have since speculated that it went something like this...

Once upon a time, the Hollywood Jewry in charge of TriStar Pictures were at the Coconut Grove, wondering amongst themselves about things that made them afraid.

"Coloreds!" one exclaimed. "They scare me."

Nodding ensued around the table, and someone scrawled "black" on a napkin.

"Hook hands," another answered. "My gardener has one and it creeps me out."

More nodding as their recorder marked "hook-handed" on the napkin.

After a long while and part of a drink later, someone else piped up, "I'm allergic to bees."

Once the recorder inscribed "bees (the kind that sting)" on the napkin, he nodded contemplatively and declared, "If we made a movie about a darkie with a hook hand that was made out of bees, it'd be the most frightening thing ever!"

"But what would we call him?" someone asked.

A delivery guy shows up and asks, "Candygram for TriStar?"

And thus, a minor horror franchise based on a Clive Barker short story was born.