Oscar-winning filmmaker Jordan Peele has released the trailer for his newest horror movie, the premiere of which has been postponed until the fall.
Following the success of 2019’s “Us,” the producer is readying the reboot/sequel of the 1992 classic “Candyman.”
Peele co-wrote and produced the new effort, which stars Yahya Abdul-Mateen II as Anthony McCoy. The flick, directed by Nia DaCosta, follows a now-adult McCoy, who was the baby that the Candyman kidnapped in the original film. McCoy moves back to his former residence of Cabrini Green in Chicago. While there, he hopes to spread the story of Candyman, a supernatural, hook-handed killer who is summoned when someone says his name five times while looking into a mirror.
The trailer begins as teenage girls do just that and shrug it off when nothing immediate occurs. But a tell-tale bee flutters in and things change.
McCoy experiences the same thing after he gets in touch with an old-timer in the now-gentrified neighborhood.
“He’s the monster that’s part of this neighborhood,” the man told McCoy of the Candyman.
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McCoy later discovers that he’s brought the Candyman back and soon, he’s caught in the killer’s grip.
“He had a purpose for you to be another one of his terrible stories,” McCoy’s girlfriend, gallery director Brianna Cartwright, told him.
“I guess he found me,” McCoy said.
A haunting rendition of Destiny’s Child’s “Say My Name” plays throughout the trailer’s events.
The new movie stars Abdul-Mateen II, who starred in HBO’s “Watchmen,” “Us” and “Black Mirror,” along with Teyonah Parris from “The Photograph” and “If Beale Street Could Talk” and Colman Domingo of HBO’s “Euphoria” and “Assassination Nation.” Tony Todd returns as the dreaded killer.
"Candyman" was due in theaters June 12, but because the coronavirus pandemic has shuttered cinemas, the release has been postponed. Universal, which is the studio distributing the movie, will now release the flick Sept. 25, Variety reported.
