By With Anthony’s painting career on the brink of stalling, a chance encounter with a Cabrini Green old-timer exposes Anthony to the tragically horrific nature of the true story behind Candyman.
On August 27th, Oscar winner Jordan Peele unleashes a fresh take on the blood-chilling urban legend that your friend’s older sibling probably told you about at a sleepover: CANDYMAN, a direct sequel to the original. Rising filmmaker Nia DaCosta (Little Woods) directs this contemporary incarnation of the cult classic. GET YOUR TICKETS!
Currently, Candyman can only be seen in theaters. No digital VOD release date has been announced, and is dependent on a deal between Universal Pictures and the AMC Theaters chain.
LATIN HORROR’s founder-in-chief Edwin Pagán caught up with Nia on the promotions circuit and posed some salient questions about the creepy horror/thriller reimagined. Let’s get to it, time is short. Peep the interview below —
"CANDYMAN, at the intersection of white violence and black pain, is about unwilling martyrs. The people they were, the symbols we turn them into, the monsters we are told they must have been."
For as long as residents can remember, the housing projects of Chicago’s Cabrini Green neighborhood were terrorized by a word-of-mouth ghost story about a supernatural killer with a hook for a hand, easily summoned by those daring to repeat his name five times into a mirror. In present day, a decade after the last of the Cabrini towers were torn down, visual artist Anthony McCoy (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II; HBO’s Watchmen, Us) and his girlfriend, gallery director Brianna Cartwright (Teyonah Parris; If Beale Street Could Talk, The Photograph), move into a luxury loft condo in Cabrini, now gentrified beyond recognition and inhabited by upwardly mobile millennials.
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