Fiilmmaker Nia DaCosta has used her social media to release a rather astonishing tie-in short film for the upcoming “Candyman” revival. The short film goes into the villain’s origin using paper puppets, but also goes into wider persecution over time.
DaCosta says: “Candyman, at the intersection of white violence and black pain, is about unwilling martyrs. The people they were, the symbols we turn them into, the monsters we are told they must have been.”
As previously indicated, the film serves as a spiritual successor to Bernard Rose’s original 1992 feature based on the Clive Barker short story and dealing with the supernatural hook-wielding character who was an artist and son of a slave who was brutally murdered in the late 19th century.
The new film follows Anthony, a socially pronounced artist in Chicago who researches the urban legend of Candyman. After investigating the killer’s last known whereabouts, strange killings begin to occur around him. DaCosta directs and Jordan Peele produces the film which stars Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Teyonah Parris and Tony Todd. It opens September 25th.
