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‘Candyman’: Watch Anthony “Say His Name” in First Clips! [Video]
We’re just two weeks away from Nia DaCosta‘s upcoming Candyman, which looks to breathe new life into the franchise that was birthed from a short story by Clive Barker.
The film is a direct sequel to the 1992 horror classic and this time stars Yahya Abdul-Mateen II as Anthony, an aspiring artist living in a luxury loft condo in Cabrini, now gentrified beyond recognition and inhabited by upwardly mobile millennials.
The legend of Candyman has returned and Anthony is consumed. In this first clip, watch as Anthony says “His” name. Is he brave enough to repeat it four more times?
In a second piece of footage, Anthony is convinced he’s seen the Candyman. When his girlfriend, Brianna (Teyonah Parris), attempts to prove that Candyman’s not real, Anthony loses it and breaks all the mirrors in the room. There’s a bonus here in Anthony’s art, which appears to tip a hat toward the “hive” theory.
Bloody Disgusting told you two years ago that Tony Todd would be returning as the Candyman. So who are these other Candy Men? Find out on August 27th.
In Candyman, co-written by Jordan Peele, “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) and his girlfriend, gallery director Brianna Cartwright (Teyonah Parris), move into a luxury loft condo in Cabrini, now gentrified beyond recognition and inhabited by upwardly mobile millennials.”
“With Anthony’s painting career on the brink of stalling, a chance encounter with a Cabrini Green old-timer (Colman Domingo) exposes Anthony to the tragically horrific nature of the true story behind Candyman. Anxious to maintain his status in the Chicago art world, Anthony begins to explore these macabre details in his studio as fresh grist for paintings, unknowingly opening a door to a complex past that unravels his own sanity and unleashes a terrifyingly viral wave of violence that puts him on a collision course with destiny.”
Michael Hargrove as “Candyman” Sherman Fields in Candyman, directed by Nia DaCosta.
Two things that have proven to be pretty dependable at the box office in recent years are horror movies and Christopher Nolan movies. With Nolan’s The Odyssey absolutely dominating the box office this past weekend, many fans of Nolan’s work have been left hungry for a Nolan-directed horror movie. After all, The Odyssey does whet the appetite for Nolan nightmare fuel.
Christopher Nolan has brushed up against the horror genre in the past with 2002 thriller Insomnia, but does he have any interest in someday making a full-on horror movie?
Nolan tells the Empire Podcast in a new chat, “I’ve always been interested in doing a horror film.”
“But horror is most successful when the conceptual framework of whatever the story is is just so undeniable. I think there are very few really great horror movies,” Nolan continues.
So why hasn’t Christopher Nolan directed a horror movie yet?
He explains to Empire, “I’ve never clicked with a particular idea or concept that worked for me. I love the genre. Of all genres, it’s the most visceral. Where the direct response to the audience is the most important. That is to say, you’re trying to make people literally feel something in their bones about what’s going on on-screen.”
Nolan calls horror “a genre in which experimentation is demanded.” He explains, “I go to see a lot of horror films with my kids these days, and you’ll see things in the first half an hour, 45 minutes of any horror film that you’d never see in another genre. Risks that are taken. Dangerous approaches to things. Admittedly, a lot of movies can’t sustain that to the end. But in the horror genre, that kind of innovation is not just respected – it’s really demanded.”
Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey is now playing in theaters.
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