![]() ![]() The one area the film loses me is with it's central antagonist. ![]() The story is excellent too, building on what the original did in unique ways and deepening the use of the history of racial trauma within the Candyman mythology to expand his hive. There is a genius use of point of view, wherein we only see Candyman in the mirror or reflective surfaces that is until we are seeing from the pov of the character summoning him. The horror is superb with gruesome kills and very clever direction. I have a great love for the original Candyman, but this new one just takes what that one did and does it that much better. Not only that, but this new Candyman is a clearer, and more cohesive film that takes the mythology of the original and cranks it to 11, even using little moments and incorporating them in clever ways. The racial undertones of the original Candyman become racial overtones in what is a film with a message. Anxious to maintain his status in the Chicago art world, Anthony begins to explore these macabre details in his studio as fresh grist for paintings, unknowingly opening a door to a complex past that unravels his own sanity and unleashes a terrifying wave of violence that puts him on a collision course with destiny. With Anthony's painting career on the brink of stalling, a chance encounter with a Cabrini-Green old-timer (Colman Domingo HBO's Euphoria, Assassination Nation) exposes Anthony to the tragically horrific nature of the true story behind Candyman. In present day, a decade after the last of the Cabrini towers were torn down, visual artist Anthony McCoy (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II HBO's Watchmen, Us) and his partner, gallery director Brianna Cartwright (Teyonah Parris If Beale Street Could Talk, The Photograph), move into a luxury loft condo in Cabrini, now gentrified beyond recognition and inhabited by upwardly mobile millennials. For as long as residents can remember, the housing projects of Chicago's Cabrini-Green neighborhood were terrorized by a word-of-mouth ghost story about a supernatural killer with a hook for a hand, easily summoned by those daring to repeat his name five times into a mirror. ![]()
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