This Black History Month already gave us one trailer for an exciting, upcoming Black horror movie with Chris Rock starring in the Saw sequel spin-off Spiral. But that’s not the only movie following up on Get Out’s culture-redefining movie melding of terror and the African-American experience.
Watch this trailer for Candyman. Watch it five times!
We mentioned Get Out as the watershed moment for this new age of Black horror movies. Candyman is even co-written and produced by Jordan Peele. But this movie is actually a remake/sequel to an earlier horror series that undeniably influenced what Peele is doing now.
In the original Candyman, the titular slasher is an urban legend who haunts Chicago’s Cabrini-Green housing projects. Once he was a Black man, a son of a slave, who loved a white woman during the Civil War. But not only was he lynched, he had his hand chopped off and replaced with a hook. And he was covered in honey and stung to death by bees! So now when you say his name five times in the mirror you’re in for a lot of buzzing, a lot of goo, and a lot of pointy murder.
This new movie is maybe in that same continuity. Tony Todd returns as Candyman after all. But instead of a naive white woman stumbling into Candyman’s infamous legacy, the protagonist seems to be Yahya Abdul-Mateen II making Candyman-inspired art. Perhaps this represents Peele’s guilt as a filmmaker using historical Black trauma for his artistic success, no matter how socially conscious it is.
Candyman is directed and co-written by Nia DaCosta and also stars Teyonah Parris, Nathan Stewart-Jarrett, Colman Domingo, and Vanessa A. Williams. It releases this June.
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