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Did You Know There Was a ‘Candyman’ Board Game?!
Beware… the Candyman will dare you to say his name five times.
You’ve heard of Candy Land, but what you probably don’t know is that the Candyman franchise spawned a board game of its own back in the mid ’90s.
The Bill Condon-directed sequel Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh was released in 1995, and the Gramercy Pictures marketing team whipped up the board game as a fun promo item!
The game, which is very hard to find (a friend gifted me with one a while back) has a playing board that is designed to look like a map of New Orleans. You’re tasked with traveling the streets on the hunt for clues to solving the Candyman Murder mysteries, all while making sure you don’t become a victim yourself.
Along with the board, the game includes 1 die, 10 Hook Cards, 19 Candyman Cards, 1 Mansion Key Card, 30 Voodoo Cards and 5 game pieces…
“To win, player must proceed clockwise along the streets of New Orleans and get to the mansion with the key card in order to unlock the secret to Candyman’s power.”
Each player starts with a token and places it on the start square on the playing board. All players then roll the die; the player with the highest roll moves first. Once gameplay begins, you lose a turn if you roll a “5” on the die – after all, saying Candyman’s name five times is what gets you killed in the movies.
If a player lands on the Bee Sting square, the player will have to return to the beginning. Landing on other squares, such as Lost Mardis-Gras Mask and Cemetery, requires you to draw a card off the deck. Each of the cards has a different power, with the Candyman Cards being the most deadly. If you draw five of them, you lose the game. As for Hook Cards, they allow you to unload Candyman Cards on other players.
The Hook Cards also allow you to take the coveted Key Card from another player – this is the secret to defeating the Candyman, as you can’t win the game without it.
Other horror movies that got their own board games? Jaws, Freddy vs. Jason, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Alien and Dawn of the Dead!
Universal has been having a hell of a time getting their Universal Monsters brand back on a better path in the wake of the Dark Universe collapsing, with four movies thus far released in the years since The Mummy attempted to get that interconnected universe off the ground.
First was Leigh Whannell’s The Invisible Man, to date the only post-Mummy hit for the Universal Monsters, followed by The Last Voyage of the Demeter, Renfield, and now Abigail. The latter three films have attempted to bring Dracula back to the screen in fresh ways, but both Demeter and Renfield severely underperformed at the box office. And while Abigail is a far better vampire movie than those two, it’s unfortunately also struggling to turn a profit.
Where does the Universal Monsters brand go from here? The good news is that Universal and Blumhouse have once again enlisted the help of Leigh Whannell for their upcoming Wolf Man reboot, which is howling its way into theaters in January 2025. This is good news, of course, because Whannell’s Invisible Man was the best – and certainly most profitable – of the post-Dark Universe movies that Universal has been able to conjure up. The film ended its worldwide run with $144 million back in 2020, a massive win considering the $7 million budget.
Given the film was such a success, you may wondering why The Invisible Man 2 hasn’t come along in these past four years. But the wait for that sequel may be coming to an end.
Speaking with the Happy Sad Confused podcast this week, The Invisible Man star Elisabeth Moss notes that she feels “very good” about the sequel’s development at this point in time.
“Blumhouse and my production company [Love & Squalor Pictures]… we are closer than we have ever been to cracking it,” Moss updates this week. “And I feel very good about it.”
She adds, “We are very much intent on continuing that story.”
At the end of the 2020 movie, Elisabeth Moss’s heroine Cecilia Kass uses her stalker’s high-tech invisibility suit to kill him, now in possession of the technology that ruined her life.
Stay tuned for more on The Invisible Man 2 as we learn it.
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