What’s Candyman? There’s more beneath the mirror than convenes the eye.

Candyman
In Theaters August 27
https://www.CandymanMovie.com

Oscar(r) winner Jordan Peele releases a fresh take on the blood-chilling urban legend: Candyman. Filmmaker Nia DaCosta( Little Woods, next year’s The Marvels) directs this contemporary incarnation of the faith classic.

For as long as citizens can recollect, the home projects of Chicago’s Cabrini-Green neighborhood were terrorized by a word-of-mouth ghost story about a superhuman gunman with a fasten for a hand, readily summoned by those daring to repeat his mention five times into a reflect. In present day, a decade after the last of the Cabrini towers were torn down, visual creator Anthony McCoy( Emmy champion Yahya Abdul-Mateen II; Watchmen, Us) and his partner, hall administrator Brianna Cartwright( Teyonah Parris; If Beale Street Could Talk, WandaVision ), move into a indulgence loft condo in Cabrini , now gentrified beyond identification and inhabited by upwardly mobile millennials.

With Anthony’s depict busines on the brink of stalling, a chance encounter with a Cabrini-Green old-timer( COLMAN DOMINGO; Zola, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom) exposes Anthony to the horrific true-life floor behind Candyman. Anxious to maintain his status in the Chicago art world, and stimulus on by his white art dealer, Anthony begins to explore these morbid items in his studio as fresh brainchild for decorates, unknowingly opening a opening to a complex past that unravels his own normality and looses a frightening beckon of violence that settles him on a collision course with destiny.

Universal Pictures presents, from Metro Goldwyn Mayer Pictures and Jordan Peele and Win Rosenfeld’s Monkeypaw Product, in association with BRON Creative, Candyman. Candyman is directed by DaCosta and is produced by Ian Cooper( 2022 ’s Nope, Us ), Rosenfeld and Peele. The screenplay is by Peele& Rosenfeld and DaCosta. The film’s executive farmers are David Kern, Aaron L. Gilbert and Jason Cloth.

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