A new trailer for Nia DaCosta’s Candyman is out, and it’s guaranteed to haunt your dreams. The film, which is being described as “spiritual” sequel to the first Candyman, follows Watchmen‘s Yahya Abdul-Mateen II as an artist named Anthony McCoy. Written by Jordan Peele and Win Rosenfeld, the movie returns to the original’s now-gentrified neighborhood as Anthony and his girlfriend, Brianna Cartwright (Marvel’s Teyonah Parris), move in years after the events of the first film. Though his partner isn’t a fan of the grisly urban legend of Candyman, Anthony is obviously into the killer’s tall tale — which inevitably leads to him daring someone else to utter the cursed name five times. From the looks of the previously released trailer, this all leads to Candyman choosing Anthony to carry on his bloody legacy, and he’s not letting anyone get in the way of his successor.
A previously released trailer from June 2020 gives more backstory on the infamous Candyman as it uses shadow puppets to tell well-known stories of Black men and their murders. Two of the vignettes play out the real-life lynching of James Byrd Jr. in 1998 and the execution of 14-year-old George Stinney Jr. in 1944. Another depicts the story of the Candyman as told in the 1992 supernatural horror film, inspired by characters from Clive Barker’s 1985 short story, The Forbidden. A Black artist who was hired to paint a portrait of a wealthy white man’s daughter, Daniel Robitaille was lynched when it was discovered that he had fallen in love with her. A mob cut off his hand, replaced it with a hook, and spread honey on him so bees would sting him as he was burned alive.
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