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Candyman

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Candyman

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Candyman: Animated Prequel (S)

Original title: Candyman
Year: 2021
Running time: 91 min.
Country: United States
Director: Nia DaCosta
Screenwriter: Jordan Peele, Win Rosenfeld, Nia DaCosta. Remake: Bernard Rose. Novel: Clive Barker
Music: Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe
Cinematography: John Guleserian
Cast: Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Teyonah Parris, Nathan Stewart-Jarrett, Brian King, Colman Domingo, Kyle Kaminsky, Vanessa Williams, Rebecca Spence, Carl Clemons-Hopkins, Miriam Moss, Cassie Kramer, Mark Montgomery, Genesis Denise Hale, Rodney L Jones III, Pamela Jones, Hannah Love Jones, Tony Todd, Torrey Hanson, Ireon Roach, Deanna Brooks, Mike Geraghty, Nadia SimmsSee 9 More
Producer: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), Monkeypaw Productions, Bron Studios, Creative Wealth Media Finance. Distributor: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
Genre: Horror | Supernatural. Sequel
Movie Groups: Candyman
Synopsis: 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.

Critics' reviews

"Director and producer remind Hollywood that you can make a pointed film about societal divides regardless of the brand or scale (...) It is enthralling start-to-finish, one of the best films of the year (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"

Brandon Katz: The New York Observer
"New 'spiritual sequel' has striking images to show and bold things to say (...) Gory yet strikingly beautiful and socially relevant (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"

Richard Roeper: Chicago Sun-Times
"It pays homage to the existing saga, but it also digs deeper into the mythos, unearthing volatile ideas that had always lurked just beneath the series surface. The result is inventive, introspective, and above all, unsettling"

Siddhant Adlakha: IGN
"Its screenplay is remarkably didactic (...) In 'Candyman', the filmmakers are interested in the Black body but not the soul and mind that animates it"

Angelica Jade Bastien: Vulture
"'Candyman' caters to fans of the original without sacrificing its own vision and story (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"

Odie Henderson: rogerebert.com
"DaCosta’s continuation of the 'Candyman' saga becoming not only fascinating but terrifying in how even the events of the first time are craftily repurposed depending on who’s mentioning the story and why"

Leslie Byron Pitt: The Playlist
"Leave it to Nia DaCosta’s alternately artful and brutal 'Candyman' sequel to make plain the power of political symbolism in good, old-fashioned gore"

Kate Erbland: IndieWire
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