Candyman
Anthony and his partner move into a loft in the now gentrified Cabrini-Green. After a chance encounter with an old-timer exposes Anthony to the true story behind Candyman, he unknowingly opens a door to a complex past that unravels his own sanity and unleashes a terrifying wave of violence.
- Released: 2021-08-25
- Runtime: 91 minutes
- Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thrillers
- Stars: Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Teyonah Parris, Colman Domingo, Nathan Stewart-Jarrett, Kyle Kaminsky, Vanessa Williams, Brian King, Miriam Moss, Rebecca Spence, Carl Clemons-Hopkins, Christiana Clark, Michael Hargrove, Rodney L Jones III, Ireon Roach, Breanna Lind, Heidi Grace Engerman, Sarah Lo, Malic White, Mark Montgomery, Torrey Hanson, Cassie Kramer, Sarah Wisterman, Cedric Mays, Alec Silver, Hannah Love Jones, J. Nicole Brooks, Pamela Jones, Genesis Denise Hale, Katherine Purdie, Tien Tran, Mike Geraghty, Aaron Crippen, Dan Fierro, Nadia Simms, Nancy Pender, Johnny Westmoreland, Guy Spencer, Daejon Staeker, Tony Todd, Virginia Madsen, Ben Marten
- Director: Nia DaCosta
Comments
- Artemur - 14 March 2024
It's more like social commentary about racism and injustice than a horror movie.
This sequel expanded on Candyman's muddled fictional mythology and mixed this mythology with some real people and events to give sociological and political background on some hot topics like racism and injustice to African Americans in the United States. I found it strange that they mixed some real-life racism-related crimes and their victims with a classic horror movie's fictional story for social commentary, but it's just my personal opinion. There are too many problems in this sequel, and I think the biggest problem is that this movie is definitely not as scary and thrilling as the first one. It's narrative is also unfocused, and that makes the story hard to follow because they crammed too many things into the script, which makes the script kind of messy, drawn out, and convoluted. I wasn't also impressed by the acting. The main guy's acting is really wooden; the character he played is also quite bland and hard to empathize with, and the supporting actors and characters aren't better than him. The movie is also quite slow-paced. It lasts 1.30 hours, but it feels much longer because of its slowness. Overall, I found this movie less scary and less enjoyable. It's a well-made movie; that's why I didn't give a low point, but it just couldn't give you the first movie's suspense, thrill, and horror. - ywahuae - 21 September 2023
I hated every second of this movie.
A horror movie?... Or a social injustice flick? The story was cringy and boring. Unnecessarily use of CGi (Which was bad). It was over the top and I had a hard time watching it (mostly because of the story) If it was only me I would stop watching but unfortunately I wasn't. The people I was with thought it might get better haha. Spoiler - it didn't!! It's a horrible movie and everyone was glad it was over. Why make it like this? And what's with the critics score?? Afraid to be honest or trying to be the equivalent of a male feminist? I think it's awful what happened to black people in the past and what happens to black people to this day. But to watch a movie and hearing over and over how evil white people are is making me sick. I used to love black movies, yes also the ones with terrible evil whites with horrible facts, but this is getting ridiculous lately. Keep feeding the race battle Hollywood, I'm out!!
