Candyman: The one who leaves and comes back because they call him

Pablo O. Scholz

08/25/2021 20:01

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Updated 08/25/2021 20:01

It is already known that if there is something that does not abound in Hollywood, it is ideas.

And it is not new to take up the characters of a horror movie and transform that production into a new saga, or at least give it a twist and adapt it to the present times.

With one eye on all that, another clearly on the box office, and if there were a third in diversity - most of the performers are African-American, as are those responsible behind the camera, it is directed by a woman and there is an interracial gay couple- ,

Candyman will

not disappoint slasher lovers.

Which is, in short, what matters to those who pay their ticket.

Spooky!

Anthony (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II) sees Candyman in a mirror.

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You don't need to have seen the 1992 horror classic, nor its sequels.

Jordan Peele, the actor-turned-screenwriter and director of

¡Huye!

and

We

co-wrote and co-produced this spiritual sequel, as marketers like to call the

Candyman

21st century version.

The original and this

The character in the original film was a specter who returned with a thirst for revenge.

They explain it here, with a kind of projected puppets.

Now, what was an urban legend has become a metaphor - although it is quite explicit - about the mistreatment of the black community.

The film is much bloodier, and bloody, than the 1992 original. Photo UIP

The candy man, who had a hook for his left hand, an entourage of bees, and a long fur coat, was derived from an artist who painted a portrait of the daughter of a white tycoon in the late 19th century.

Well, in addition to painting her, he had an affair with her, who got pregnant and the white man had him lynched.

They cut off his hand, sprinkled it with honey, the bees stung it, and then set it on fire.

That ghost returns if it is mentioned, if its name is repeated five times.

There are nods, not just to the first movie, but to the author of the original short story, Clive Barker.

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Do not try it at home.

Today, Anthony (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, who was Bobby Seale in

The Chicago Trial of the 7

) is another artist.

He grew up in the Cabrini-Green houses of Chicago, where the

Candyman

directed by Bernard Rose took place, about a story by the great Clive Barker (

Hellraiser

; stay tuned because there is a nod to Baker in the film).

Paired with Brianna (Teyonah Parris), who works for a somewhat unbearable gallery owner, Anthony is preparing material for a show.

The protagonist acted in the Oscar nominee "The Chicago 7 Trial."

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And it goes that, daring more than avant-garde, Anthony looks to Candyman for inspiration.

He wants to get out of the ordinary, creates something similar to performance art, an installation.

And well.

Candyman returns.

And not because he left without being called.

That's why saying Candyman five times.

No, don't say it in front of a mirror.

Nia DaCosta, the director, is now filming the sequel to "Captain Marvel."

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The director Nia DaCosta, why don't you know what she's filming?

The Marvels

, the sequel to

Captain Marvel

, is not afraid to show how the Candyman, who, rather than presenting the boys with a candy in his hand, has nothing, can cut the neck, or how another man's arm is torn off , And so on to infinity.

Sadism in the foreground.

There are good effects and it can surely be trumpeted that this

Candyman

is more of an allegory about white supremacists, because of the housing complexes that were like a ghetto.

But we already know what the audience that is going to see

Candyman

wants to see.

And DaCosta, Peele and the cast give it to him on a platter.

"Candyman"

Good

Terror.

USA, 2021. 91 ', SAM 16.

From:

Nia DaCosta.

With:

 Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Vanessa Williams, Colman Domingo.

Rooms:

 Hoyts Abasto, Cinemark Palermo, Cinépolis Avellaneda, Showcase Norcenter.

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