Candyman (2020)

[OCD Geek]

The trailer for director/co-writer Nia DaCosta (Little Woods) and co-writer Jordan Peele's (Get Out, Us) Candyman sequel just dropped.

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Fun fact: The first two Hellraiser movies are part of the Doctor Who universe thanks to both Lawrence Miles' 8th Doctor spin-off Faction Paradox and Kim Newman's works (Anno Dracula: The Bloody Red Baron, Doctor Who: Time and Relative & The Diogenes Club: Cold Snap).

So...fuck it! Nightbreed and Candyman are part of the Whoniverse too. I mean, why the fuck not? A recent episode just made it canon that ghosts are real in Doctor Who.

In closing, I very much look forward to DaCosta and Peele's further expansion of Doctor Who's world.

 

[Tosk]

Love the first movie. I hope the new one is good.

 

[Mr. Adventure]

I actually saw the first one in the theater when it came out. This one definitely seems to have a different atmosphere to it but different movie, different time. I'm not quite sure what I think from the trailer though casting Victor (and more importantly his voice) from Fear the Walking Dead isn't a bad move.

 

[Qonundrum]

I'll admit that when the guy uttered "say his name 5 times in front of a mirror" I was hoping for Michael Keaton to appear and say "It's show time!"... but as I continued to watch, that teaser nails the timing and the horror element (nice touch with the flies) really well.

Nice bit of humor at 1:22 as well.

Definitely Rated R...

And I didn't notice the pale teal/orange palette until second viewing, oddly enough. The movie might just be as compelling.

 

[Tosk]

The connection to the original movie has me excited. The main character is Anthony, the baby that was taken from Cabrini Green in the first film. And that's Vanessa Williams playing his mother again...who has aged spectacularly, I might add.

 

[OCD Geek]

The connection to the original movie has me excited. The main character is Anthony, the baby that was taken from Cabrini Green in the first film. And that's Vanessa Williams playing his mother again...who has aged spectacularly, I might add.

Candyman came out in 1990. Williams looks like she stepped out of 1992. 1993 at the latest. She's either immortal or a time traveler.

 

[Captaindemotion]

Bump!

Apologies if there was a review thread for this film, but when I searched the title, this was the only one that came up. I watched the film tonight. Although interested in the film, I’d avoided all discussion of it and I thought it was a total reboot, mainly because I’d read that a new actor was playing Candyman. It’s in fact a very clever legacy sequel, which acknowledges the original film, but you don’t need to have seen it to enjoy this one. It does make me want to rewatch the original, though, but I mean that as a compliment.

The social & racial elements and themes are of course to the fore, as anyone who’s been paying attention would expect but don’t get in the way of the narrative.

As was said above, Vanessa Williams still looks pretty much the same as she looked 30 years ago!