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First Trailer for Candyman drops this Thursday! (Jordan Peele writing, producing/Nia DeCosta directing)
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I bet this is one of those instances where the trailer doesn't actually spoil anything, but seems like it does
Hopefully.
Looks good though. My wife will like that as well. She loved the first two.
Looked pretty good. It's been a minute since a movie trailer got me excited like this. I do hope we didn't get spoiled on a lot of the stuff though.
Nice cameo from the mother in the first Candyman movie, at least I'm guessing that's just a cameo and not connected to what she experienced in the first film.
I thought the trailer was kinda meh, and I chuckled a little bit from hearing "Say My Name". Still going to see it as Candyman is one of my favorite horror films.
I thought the trailer was kinda meh, and I chuckled a little bit from hearing "Say My Name". Still going to see it as Candyman is one of my favorite horror films.
Looks different & happy it feels like it's got some good scares. But seems like Todd isn't really in it much unless they're really hiding him for the first trailer. You'd think though if he was playing Candyman, they'd want to show him off as at least a good stinger.
Guess the main guy is going to turn into Candyman after being stung by the bee. That's different.
Guess the main guy is going to turn into Candyman after being stung by the bee. That's different.
I'm interested, but I can't lie the "I Got 5 On It" re-attempt with that Destiny's Child song had me laughing. We gonna get Boyz II Men horror remixes next ?
Tony Todd is in the movie but folks aren't sure if he's actually Candyman or some other character.
If this is a stealth sequel like people have been saying, there's no reason not to bring him back.
According to the official synopsis, the main character's name is Anthony, so with the time lining up; he could be the baby from the first Candyman movie if they really wanted to go the low-key sequel route.
He is the baby from the first movie. That is what this movie is about.
Sequel as a soft reboot, I believe. So it has narrative connective tissue to the first film.
wow, it looks good! Glad they didnt show too much of Todd
reimagining
This is great. Maybe I should watch the first movie.
It's 100% a sequel considering the trailer uses imagery from the first movie, ie the big Candyman mural.
Oh, I didn't know this was being made as a spiritual sequel. I'm guessing it ignores the events of the other Candyman sequels.
It's probably best to ignore the events of Candyman 3 for everyone's sake.
I watched five minutes of that about a month ago because it was on Amazon Prime and holy MOLY is it terrible.
One of the strongest aspects of the first movie was the kind of class, race and real estate version of body-horror - the buildings, the neighborhoods, the decay and the ever present danger of violence - you saw the contrast with the deluxe condo VS the project - identical architecture but a gulf of wealth and inequality with Virginia Madsen being placed as contrast in both places. She also ties the racial disparity by being this perfect, blond, waspy figure. She's sympathetic as a character and to the plight of the people in Cabrini Green, but she's completely out of her depth.
Her resurrection subplot also shows the cycle of violence and the utter lack of change. The slaves are still in the same place in the future, and the legal status has changed, but the decay and violence and societal ceilings are intact.
So you have the terror of the supernatural, the sort of societal fear of the other, and the fear of violence and crime - Madsen being shocked by it and the locals being ground down and corroded by it - and becoming it - so there's this permanent all encompassing Matryoshka doll of different layers of fear and dread.
That's actually one of the things I loved about Get Out - which was that it recaptured elements of Candyman - especially for white people - the dread and discomfort came from knowing that the underlying facts are true and that people - who should be your equals and peers and safe in the nice condo - are living in a nightmare that you only have to visit - either as a theater goer or through the eyes of Madsen's character. All of that discomfits and undermines the foundational sense viewers have of the film - so that when th traditional horror happens, you're already in a very bad place and a place that isn't fantasy - it's recognition of something totally real.
Imagine watching the Exorcist but in a world where demonic possession is actually real. That's a bad place and it amplifies the scraes and the substance.
Candyman is such an amazing film - the score, the subject, the power it all has - for what should have been just another schlocky horror film, but it's deliberately and artfully subversive. Glad Peele is involved because he's the spiritual successor to the original. Wish he was directing tho.
I hope they lean into those aspects hard.
Her resurrection subplot also shows the cycle of violence and the utter lack of change. The slaves are still in the same place in the future, and the legal status has changed, but the decay and violence and societal ceilings are intact.
So you have the terror of the supernatural, the sort of societal fear of the other, and the fear of violence and crime - Madsen being shocked by it and the locals being ground down and corroded by it - and becoming it - so there's this permanent all encompassing Matryoshka doll of different layers of fear and dread.
That's actually one of the things I loved about Get Out - which was that it recaptured elements of Candyman - especially for white people - the dread and discomfort came from knowing that the underlying facts are true and that people - who should be your equals and peers and safe in the nice condo - are living in a nightmare that you only have to visit - either as a theater goer or through the eyes of Madsen's character. All of that discomfits and undermines the foundational sense viewers have of the film - so that when th traditional horror happens, you're already in a very bad place and a place that isn't fantasy - it's recognition of something totally real.
Imagine watching the Exorcist but in a world where demonic possession is actually real. That's a bad place and it amplifies the scraes and the substance.
Candyman is such an amazing film - the score, the subject, the power it all has - for what should have been just another schlocky horror film, but it's deliberately and artfully subversive. Glad Peele is involved because he's the spiritual successor to the original. Wish he was directing tho.
I hope they lean into those aspects hard.
oh HELL yes. So ready for a rewatch. I haven't seen the sequels, weirdly. I'm sure they're terrible, but I *love* watching mindless horror sequels trying to justify themselves.