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Creepy new ‘Candyman’ movie indicts gentrification as the real horror
Who can take a sunrise and sprinkle it with … dread?All seems well in the initial moments of “Candyman,” the modern-day remake of the 1992 horror classic, which opens with the sweet sounds of Sammy Davis Jr.’s classic “The Candy Man.”But then the song — and the film itself — slowly becomes a spooky nightmare. “We love doing stuff like that,” producer and “Candyman” co-writer Win Rosenfeld told The Post. Twisting an otherwise innocent pop song has become a signature of his production company, Monkeypaw, which he runs with Jordan Peele. The team did the same kind of creepy remix of Luniz’s “I Got 5 On It” in the trailer for the company’s breakout hit “Get Out.”The team’s new “Candyman” is a decidedly contemporary tale.
