re-imagining of “Candyman” might be even more bone-chilling than the original.Director Nia DaCosta shared an eerie but stunning animated teaser for her upcoming reboot of the 1992 horror classic, which resonates now more than ever amid the Black Lives Matter movement, heightened by the recent death of George Floyd and many others while in police custody.“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,” DaCosta, 30, tweeted along with a haunting puppetry animation video.The teaser, which clocks in at just over two-and-a-half minutes, depicts the origin of the movie’s central character juxtaposed with.
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