Don’t say his name.
Oscar® winner Jordan Peele unleashes a fresh take on the blood-chilling urban legend that your friend’s older sibling
probably told you about at a sleepover: Candyman. Rising filmmaker Nia DaCosta (Little Woods) directs this
contemporary incarnation of the cult classic.
For as long as residents can remember, the housing projects of Chicago’s Cabrini Green neighborhood were terrorized
by a word-of-mouth ghost story about a supernatural killer with a hook for a hand, easily summoned by those daring to
repeat his name five times into a mirror. In present day, a decade after the last of the Cabrini towers were torn down,
visual artist Anthony McCoy (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II; HBO’s Watchmen, Us) and his girlfriend, gallery director Brianna
Cartwright (Teyonah Parris; If Beale Street Could Talk, The Photograph), move into a luxury loft condo in Cabrini, now
gentrified beyond recognition and inhabited by upwardly mobile millennials.
With Anthony’s painting career on the brink of stalling, a chance encounter with a Cabrini Green old-timer (Colman
Domingo; HBO’s Euphoria, Assassination Nation) exposes Anthony to the tragically horrific nature of the true story
behind Candyman. Anxious to maintain his status in the Chicago art world, Anthony begins to explore these macabre
details in his studio as fresh grist for paintings, unknowingly opening a door to a complex past that unravels his own
sanity and unleashes a terrifyingly viral wave of violence that puts him on a collision course with destiny.
