Candyman
2021 · Movie · 91 min. · United States
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.
Direction Nia DaCosta
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 Simms
Soundtrack Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe
Screenplay Jordan Peele · Win Rosenfeld · Nia DaCosta · Bernard Rose · Clive Barker
Cinematography John Guleserian
Original title Candyman
5.0
4K votes (FilmAffinity)
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