There is a tight, lean story at work throughout that actually has something to say and readily succeeds in making you think about exactly what it wants you to. Although some may feel nostalgic for the Candyman of old (that character even made it onto our Top 10 Horror Movie Villains of ...
I also appreciate that Candyman stays true to the events of the first film and expands on them. I expected a pretty standard reboot, and to some degree, the 2021 movie does follow that path, as it presents us with a new Candyman for another generation. However, the film links pretty ...
But of course, we all know Candyman is in this movie so, thus, we know that somebody says his name five times in a mirror and the rest is history from that point onward. Whenever he first appeared in this movie, my stomach dropped. Truly. Not because I was terrified of what I was...
Candyman (2021) Review Artist Anthony (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II) and his partner Brianna (Teyonah Parris) move into a new apartment in the now gentrified Cabrini Green. After learning the true story behind the local urban legend of Candyman and displaying it as a new art piece, Anthony unknowin...
Daniel Robitaille, better known as the Candyman, is the titular main antagonist of the Candyman franchise, based on the short story "The Forbidden" from Clive Barker's horror anthology novel Books of Blood. Despite his nature as a brutal killer and a ven
There are also some interesting ideas about urban environments and architecture in this movie. The opening sequence seems to set up the city as this malevolent force. Bernard:Definitely the film is about architecture and the way that people can exist in the same space, but it’s how the spac...
” when those credits started. I understand what they were trying to achieve with their ending but after hoping to see Todd reprise his role the whole movie, I got to say, I was left very disappointed. With little scares, less gore than the original, I am perfectly content with the ...
The Candyman films assemble traditions of extreme trauma whereby past events, despite local efforts of collective disremembrance, return in the form of a violent avenger killing strangers as symbolic substitutes. Innocent Black men systematically targete
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The lore is messier and more confusing than ever, and that's not helped by the fact that this movie has ZERO character development for anyone involved.It's established that the lead character, Anthony, is estranged from his mother. But we never learn why and this plot thread is never ...