Photographer Anthony McCoy (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II) decides to prepare an exhibition about the Cabrini-Green Housing Projects, which are on the verge of gentrification, and befriends one of its residents, William Burke (Colman Domingo), from whom Anthony learns about the legend of Candyman.
Anthony begins experiencing hallucinations and becomes obsessed with Candyman, concerning his girlfriend Brianna Cartwright (Teyonah Parris). A man armed with a hook begins killing investors who criticized Anthony’s exhibition. Concerned he might have committed the murders, Anthony seeks his mother, Anne-Marie McCoy (Vanessa Estelle Williams), who begrudgingly reveals that he was born in Cabrini-Green and abducted by Candyman as a child, but saved by Anne-Marie’s friend, Helen Lyle (Cassie Kramer).
Anthony returns to Cabrini-Green and is abducted by Burke, who reveals himself to be the killer. Burke claims to be the guardian of Candyman’s legend and reveals that Daniel Robitaille (Tony Todd) was just one of a larger “hive” of Candymen, who are all wrongfully killed black men. He has arranged for Anthony to become the new Candyman as Robitaille intended, and cuts off Anthony’s hand before Brianna arrives and manages to kill him. Tipped off by Burke, the police arrive, and, despite Brianna’s pleas, shoot an unarmed and agonizing Anthony while he begs for help.
The cops threaten to kill Brianna unless she corroborates their claim that they killed Anthony in self-defense. Enraged, Brianna summons Anthony, who is reborn as the new Candyman. Anthony slaughters the cops but spares Brianna and allows her to leave before returning to Cabrini-Green to start his reign anew.
Sounds like thrash. There will never be another Candyman other than Tony fucking Todd.
Tyler Collins
Where's the ceritified Jordan Peele™ social commentary?
Jaxon Flores
Gentrification and police brutality.
Nolan Ward
“Gentrification” is right there in the first sentence.
Mason Miller
>blacks good >cops bad negroids can't think nothing different from that looks like
Lincoln Ortiz
Why do niggers get their own wrongfully murdered vengeful spirits?
Ayden Rivera
>fondly remembered >horror >plot/message about race >over 25 years old the perfect movie for a shitty "ooh is it a remake? is it a reboot? better go watch it it's actually pretty good, so i'm told" sequel
Asher Lee
>multiple candymen gay as fuck
Connor Brown
>Tipped off by Burke, the police arrive, and, despite Brianna’s pleas, shoot an unarmed and agonizing Anthony while he begs for help. > >The cops threaten to kill Brianna unless she corroborates their claim that they killed Anthony in self-defense. Enraged, Brianna summons Anthony, who is reborn as the new Candyman. Anthony slaughters the cops but spares Brianna and allows her to leave before returning to Cabrini-Green to start his reign anew. Beyond laughable. I believe you 100%, this is exactly what Hollywood will do in the current year.
Jack Price
>that ending What?
Luis Martin
This is the dumbest thing ever written.
John Edwards
Honestly, this is pretty good. It seems to be a mashup of Candyman and Midnight Meat Train (i wonder what could be the link...).
I like that the cruel werewolf-like ending is responsible for the creation of a new Candyman. I dig Yahya. And it seems to be faithful to the original, that was already about gentrification and racial discrimination.
Nathaniel Russell
What kind of a name Yahya Abdul-Mateen II is? Is this nigger royalty or some shit?
I bet they made all the cops white in this movie too
Sebastian Carter
the fucking nerve of niggers to whine about gentrification when all those towns were originally built by whites, typically dutch immigrants. wtf.
Tyler Lee
dirty cops who wronged a black man get their comeuppance
Asher Ross
>the police arrive, and, despite Brianna’s pleas, shoot an unarmed and agonizing Anthony while he begs for help. But police only shoot unarmed black men when they're aggressively dancing around, resisting arrest, and trying to run away.
Or when they are after a serial-killer described as a black man without hands. You're trying too hard, nigger-haterz. The movie has potential.
Ayden Thomas
not bad for a cosplay but this one looks kinda weird. maybe with white contacts it would sell the effect better
Adam Perry
More like NIGGERMAN!!!!
Henry Parker
No. I'm not going to support a movie with a deceptive political agenda that pretends "police brutality" is a problem when black on white and black on black crime are 10 times and 20 times higher.
Part of the problem with remaking this movie is trying to recapture the essence of Cabrini Green. It was a literal hell on earth in the 80s. They tore it down for a reason. You can't fictionalize it being more scary than it actually was. That's part of the magic of Candyman, and why it's so fucking good.
Jordan Sullivan
Apparently, they also reveal that Rodney King became one of the Candymen, which I find oddly disrespectful if true.
> living in a country where feral bands of black youths organized solely for crime are routinely gunning each other down, with death rates higher than most war zones > obviously the problem we need to focus on is how police are too mean
Austin Rodriguez
So Burke tips off the police in hopes that McCoy gets killed so he becomes the next Candyman? Doesn't that make him and not the cops ultimately responsible for his wrongful death, undermining the police brutality message?
Austin Davis
Didnt this movie come out in the 80s? You can't spoil something that's old as shit
Josiah Thompson
>peele's audiences and critics >thinking about the actual plot of his movies
Carter Turner
The original Candyman is great because it shits all over white liberals and their savior complexes. This sounds like woke garbage.
Jace Campbell
The ending from the first one was kino, unlike this racebaiting one.
Jaxon Butler
Why the fuck couldn't they just have Tony Todd pick up where he left off? It's not like he's too busy to reprise the role.
Daniel Young
>Daniel Robitaille (Tony Todd) was just one of a larger “hive” of Candymen > Enraged, Brianna summons Anthony, who is reborn as the new Candyman. Anthony slaughters the cops but spares Brianna and allows her to leave before returning to Cabrini-Green to start his reign anew.
please tell me this is a joke. Even ignoring the racebaiting bullshit, this is above and beyond the worst ending/twist Ive ever heard
Technically, yes, but the cops still shoot him while he's clearly not a threat and his girlfriend begs them not to, so the curse still applies.
Josiah Hill
So Candyman was an innocent soul all this time? Then why did he castrate that random black kid in the first movie? Or kill Helen's friend and frame her for it?
Owen Gray
He probably wanted more than they were willing to spend.
Alexander Kelly
Because Clive Barker.
Connor Sanders
>no Virginia Madsen why watch this?
Hunter Price
Candyman was an innocent soul corrupted by revenge after his wrongful death in the first movie already, his only crime was loving a white woman.
Jason Thompson
I thought that Tony Todd was going to be in the movie? Is it just a cameo?
Elijah Johnson
Not even. He's only mentioned and never shown.
Thomas Cook
Now tell us how much you love HBO’s Watchmen, shill.
Dylan Miller
yeah because he just set up his girl to get a murder beef. a murder beef with cops.
Jackson Diaz
it wasn't though. she was a college student doing oral histories/ urban legends for her thesis. this one just happened to be in a project, the movie wasn't really about gentrification. the only discrimination IIRC was at the candyman when they killed him.
Liam Price
>And it seems to be faithful to the original, that was already about gentrification and racial discrimination.
No it wasn't. That's just fart-sniffing. It gives the supernatural killer a tragic backstory and makes them a bit more sympathetic but Candyman is still a monster and the villain. It's not about things like "black revenge" or gentrification. Cabrini Green is a creepy setting because it was a hellhole.
Andrew White
>it wasn't though. she was a college student doing oral histories/ urban legends for her thesis. this one just happened to be in a project, the movie wasn't really about gentrification. the only discrimination IIRC was at the candyman when they killed him.
They don't even get the point of the original story. It's like how they assume that The Witcher is a polemic against "racism" when in reality The Witcher is a deconstruction of the fantasy/fairytale genre by inserting historical race-group conflict to make it more realistic and naturalistic.
Hunter Hill
>So Candyman was an innocent soul all this time? Then why did he castrate that random black kid in the first movie? Or kill Helen's friend and frame her for it?
Candyman wasn't innocent. He became a monster and that is why he is the villain. Then disgusting leftists and blacks try to make him into some kind of hero in their own twisted view.
Kayden Ward
>unarmed
Reminder that black people in America aren't even allowed fingers no more.
>The cops threaten to kill Brianna unless she corroborates their claim that they killed Anthony in self-defense Next time trying being a bit more subtle
Daniel Barnes
>Cabrini Green >gentrification Lolwut? It was a nigger shithole until it was torn down
Aaron Clark
sorry doctor nigger
Chase Carter
This. I mean in real life too. I'd rather be hooked to death by a guy then get caught in the wrong stairwell in Cabrini in the 80s.
Lincoln Allen
>Unless there's something extraordinary about it, or unless there's a news hole needing plugging, a murder in a CHA project isn't going to make the Sun-Times or Tribune. Project killings just aren't news ordinarily; CHA residents are blown away, knifed, and kicked to death almost every week—two or three times a week in warmer weather. McCoy was only one of three ABLA residents murdered in the waning days of April. Two days after her body was found, unknown assailants used a stick and their hands and feet to beat to death a 40-year-old man who lived in an ABLA row house. The killing occurred on a street just two blocks east of McCoy's building. Three days after that, a 25-year-old female resident of one Abbott high rise ended an argument with a 20-year-old resident of McCoy's building by plunging a knife into her chest. That killing took place just outside McCoy's building. >The Tribune did run a brief story on the McCoy murder on June 10, after a second suspect had been arrested and indicted. The killing apparently had been made newsworthy by a new fact: detectives had determined, and the Tribune reported in the story's lead, that McCoy's killers had entered her apartment through her medicine cabinet. They removed the cabinet in the adjacent apartment, broke through McCoy's cabinet, and climbed through the wall into her apartment, according to the story. >But these angles apparently did not captivate news editors. The Tribune article, which ran deep in its "Chicagoland" section, would be the last story on the killing in any Chicago daily, the Defender included.
The editors' indifference is understandable. In CHA towers, babies have been tossed out of windows and teenagers shoved down elevator chutes; intruders sometimes bust right through apartment walls to rape and murder tenants. So what's so unusual about a medicine cabinet murder?
Levi Green
>public DEMAND THE RELEASE of police footage >footage is released and the pigs are vindicated every time lel youtube.com/watch?v=m7tvGJB7guc
Cooper Mitchell
Holy shit that's one stupid nigger.
Lincoln Murphy
This 100%, Candyman actually tackled race in a horror movie in the proper way. What happened to him was an injustice, but after he became a spirit everything that happened to him was on him. He murdered innocent people, including the black best friend of the main character, just to increase his own mythos and grow more powerful, he was an asshole and deserved to be burned to death the way he was.
But of course Peele is going to make this all about bad white cops and make Candyman innocent. Such bullshit.
