A new trailer for Nia DaCosta Candyman is out and is guaranteed to send chills down the spine. The video, posted by the 17th of June, uses shadow puppets to tell well-known stories of Black men and their murders, including the original Candyman himself. “Candymanat the intersection of the white violence and black pain, it is about willing martyrs,” DaCosta wrote in a tweet accompanying the new trailer. “The people were, the symbols that turn into the monsters we are told that it should have been.”
Two of the vignettes in the play the real-life lynching of James Byrd, Jr., in 1998 and in the run 14 years old George Stinney Jr., in 1944. Another sample of the story of the Candyman, as he said in 1992, with the supernatural horror film, inspired by the characters of Clive Barker’s 1985 short story, The Forbidden. A Black artist that was hired to paint a portrait of a rich white man to the daughter of Daniel Robitaille was lynched when it was discovered that he had fallen in love with her. A crowd cut off his hand, replaced it with a hook, and the spread of honey in it so that the bees sting him as he was burned alive.
All the scenes are tied together by a painter that shows the creation of portraits of Black people, after they have been killed, and we see him surrounded by the paintings of both fictional and real to the victims of white violence. This figure is most likely a reference to Watchmen‘o Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, who plays artist Anthony McCoy in the next “spiritual” sequel to the first Candyman. Written by Peele and Win Rosenfeld, the film returns to the original now-gentrified neighborhood as Anthony and his girlfriend Brianna Cartwright (Marvel Teyonah Parris) move in years after the events of the first film. Despite the fact that your partner is not a fan of the creepy urban legend of Candyman, Anthony is, obviously, the assassin of the height of the fairies, which inevitably leads to him daring someone to pronounce the damn name five times.
From the looks of the previously-released trailer, all of this leads to Candyman the choice of Anthony to carry out his bloody legacy, and not let anyone get in the way of his successor. If you are even a little squeamish, this is not the horror flick for you. The cast features a lot of familiar faces as the Misfits‘Nathan Stewart-Jarrett, Selma‘s Colman Domingo, and the original Candyman himself, Tony Todd. See the disturbing live-action trailer ahead. and get ready to get scared when Candyman slinks into theaters on September 25.
