Film
Candyman
- Director
- Nia DaCosta
- Certificate
- 15
- Running Time
- 91 mins
Bernard Rose’s 1992 adaptation of the Clive Barker short story The Forbidden was a fine horror flick. But if you found its racial politics a tad troubling (or ‘problematic’ in modern jargon), you’ll be delighted to find that this sequel is produced by Get Out and Us director Jordan Peele and directed by Nia DaCosta, who will shortly make history as the first black woman to direct a Marvel superhero flick (the upcoming Captain Marvel sequel).
Tony Todd reprises his role as the memorable supernatural, hook-handed psycho who can be summoned by reciting his name five times into a mirror. But the sequel is set a decade on from the original film, during which time the run-down housing projects of Chicago’s Cabrini Green (remember that truly revolting toilet sequence?) have been demolished and the neighbourhood gentrified. Enter visual artist Anthony McCoy (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II) and his gallery director girlfriend Brianna Cartwright (Teyonah Parris), who’ve just moved in to a swanky new condo on the site…
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