Say “Candyman” to the mirror five times in a row and a butcher appears, or at least in Cabrini-Green, a gentrified Chicago neighbourhood plagued by racism, social deprivation and violence in the last third of the 21st century. Jordan Peele, the Oscar-winning screenwriter and director of Get Out and Us, saw an opportunity to update a 1992 black horror classic.
Review
Candyman: the black butcher has good reason to attack you
He left the directing up to Nia DaCosta, a young talent from New York who is now directing a superheroine film for Marvel. She stages the macabre scenes with confidence, brings the social issues to the fore and links the slaughterer to white violence against black Americans.
CANDYMAN
US, dir.: Nia DaCosta, act: Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Teyonah Parris
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