“It Was Always You”: Candyman’s Ominous Line To Helen Explained

Candyman has the distinction of being a creepy horror film based on urban legends with a romantic sentimentality at its core, and the line its titular villain utters, ‘It was always you, Helen,” explores that duality. In the beginning, graduate student Helen Lyle (Virginia Madsen) is researching the connection between local folk legends and inner-city blight in Chicago’s notorious Cabrini-Green community, where the mythology of Candyman (Tony Todd) has provided both fear and respect. As she uncovers the truth about the man behind the legend, a former slave turned artist who was the victim of a heinous hate crime in the 1800s, he becomes equally intrigued with her.