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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!
Maika Monroe (Longlegs) isn’t the only one reuniting with It Follows director David Robert Mitchell on the sequel They Follow. The filmmaker revealed key collaborators are also joining the project.
Speaking with Empire, Mitchell confirmed that multiple crew members are returning for the sequel, and that it’ll feature a new score from Disasterpeace!
“Maika is back for this, and [cinematographer] Mike [Gioulakis], and the editor, Julio [C. Perez IV],” Mitchell told the outlet. “Disasterpeace will be doing a score.“
That’s great news, considering how impactful the artist’s score was on the original 2014 film. Mitchell agrees: “I wouldn’t want to do a sequel without him. That first movie is so much to do with his fantastic music, so I’m excited about seeing what he does with this.”
The filmmaker notes that he’s also proud of his script for They Follow, which will do its own thing while still being connected to the original film. Of course, plot details remain scarce at this time.
“It’s very dark,” Monroe recently teased. “We’re pushing the boundaries on this one for sure.”
In the first movie, Maika Monroe’s Jay Height is a young woman followed by an unknown supernatural force after a sexual encounter. In the sequel, the threat is now EVERYWHERE.
Naomi Ackie (Blink Twice) is reportedly joining the sequel.
NEON and Good Fear Content are producing They Follow.
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