Oscar( r) winner Jordan Peele unleashes a fresh take on the blood-chilling urban legend: Candyman. Filmmaker Nia DaCosta( Little Woods, upcoming Captain Marvel 2) places this contemporary manifestation of the sect classic.

For as long as citizens can retain, the dwelling projects of Chicago’s Cabrini-Green neighborhood were oppressed by a word-of-mouth ghost story about a supernatural executioner with a hook for a hand, readily bidden by those daring to repeat his appoint five times into a mirror. In present day, a decade after the last of the Cabrini fortress were torn down, visual artist Anthony McCoy( Yahya Abdul-Mateen II; HBO’s Watchmen, Us) and his partner, hall conductor Brianna Cartwright( Teyonah Parris; If Beale Street Could Talk, The Photograph ), move into a luxury loft condo in Cabrini , now gentrified beyond approval and colonized by upwardly portable millennials.

With Anthony’s cover vocation on the verge of stalling, a chance encounter with a Cabrini-Green old-timer( Colman Domingo; HBO’s Euphoria, Assassination Nation) discloses Anthony to the tragically frightful nature of the true story behind Candyman. Anxious to maintain his status in the Chicago art world, Anthony begins to explore these frightening details in his studio as fresh grist for draws, unknowingly opening a opening to a complex past that deciphers his own sanity and unleashes a frightening motion of violence that employs him on a collision course with destiny.

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