A sequel to the horror film Candyman (1992) that returns to the now-gentrified Chicago neighborhood where the legend began.A sequel to the horror film Candyman (1992) that returns to the now-gentrified Chicago neighborhood where the legend began.A sequel to the horror film Candyman (1992) that returns to the now-gentrified Chicago neighborhood where the legend began.
- Awards
- 10 wins & 24 nominations
Rodney L Jones III
- Billy
- (as Rodney L. Jones III)
Storyline
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- TriviaProduction was brought back to the Cabrini Green neighborhood where Candyman (1992) was filmed. Though the high-rise buildings have long been demolished, the Rowhouses still exist.
- GoofsHaley reads from the program describing Say My Name at the Night Driver gallery. The program reads 'In foreground, Helen Lyle: a white, privileged, graduate student whose obsession with her research into a [sic] an urban legend called, "Candyman," led to her bizarre self-emulation in the housing projects courtyard in the early 90's.' The word "emulation" is confused with "immolation", which means death by fire.
- Quotes
Detective Lipez: Who are you?
Anthony McCoy: I am the writing on the walls. I am the sweet smell of blood on the street. The buzz that echoes in the alleyways. They will say I shed innocent blood. You are far from innocent, but they will say you were. That's all that matters.
- Crazy creditsThe opening Universal Studios, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Bron Studio, and Monkeypaw Productions logos are mirrored images. The opening credits of Chicago skyline seen from below, are a "mirrored" concept of Candyman (1992)'s opening credits of Chicago seen from above.
- SoundtracksThe Candy Man
Written by Leslie Bricusse & Anthony Newley
Performed by Sammy Davis Jr.
Courtesy of Republic Records
Under license from Universal Music Enterprises
Featured review
A mess
'Candyman' 2021 is a mess on every level included in the film.
It's a tonal mess, where the supposedly scary parts are mixed with parody-level dialogue (and delivery), satirized or serious social commentary, flamboyantly gay characters played as they walked right of the set of 80s or 90s comedy show and more. This was kind of anticipated after 'Us' 2019 though.
It becomes clear that there wasn't enough story for a feature film, hence the short run-time by modern standards.
Even with a lacking story and the film constantly pulling away into different themes and tones, there were no characters or character development in the film. There is none, trust me.
Acting-wise it was also very reminiscent of 'Us' 2019 since almost everyone was acting like they were trying to do an impression, a parody. I think the initial idea was to make the African-American cast act like rich white people, probably. If not - they were barely believable. The inclusion of the same-sex couple was also more comical for some reason. Again, maybe intentional.
All the political stuff was extremely overexaggerated to a point I wasn't sure if they were serious. I laughed at most of the police brutality scenes just because they were delivered this way.
To summarize the story, it seems like the Candyman is a passing spirit that protects the hood from white people's police brutality by violently murdering them for being extremely stupid and goofy.
I'm planning to see 1992 original, since this one acts more like a sequel, maybe it's better.
And yeah, there's also a theme of gentrification but the film abandoned it just like most of the other ones.
From a positive standpoint, I did like some of the shots and it was nice to see Tony Todd, even in his CGI state.
It is impossible to perceive this as horror since 90% of the murders are obscured behind the scenery. It is also impossible to view this as a mystery film since there is none. And since there were no characters or character development...it's hard to view this as a film altogether.
At first, I thought this was going to be a style-over-substance film with all the allegories to the world being upside down, even the music felt like it was playing backward, but in the end, it was just a gimmick, because mirrors, yeah, ok.
I'm looking forward to seeing the 1992 film and forgetting about this one as fast as possible. At least it was funny in places.
It's a tonal mess, where the supposedly scary parts are mixed with parody-level dialogue (and delivery), satirized or serious social commentary, flamboyantly gay characters played as they walked right of the set of 80s or 90s comedy show and more. This was kind of anticipated after 'Us' 2019 though.
It becomes clear that there wasn't enough story for a feature film, hence the short run-time by modern standards.
Even with a lacking story and the film constantly pulling away into different themes and tones, there were no characters or character development in the film. There is none, trust me.
Acting-wise it was also very reminiscent of 'Us' 2019 since almost everyone was acting like they were trying to do an impression, a parody. I think the initial idea was to make the African-American cast act like rich white people, probably. If not - they were barely believable. The inclusion of the same-sex couple was also more comical for some reason. Again, maybe intentional.
All the political stuff was extremely overexaggerated to a point I wasn't sure if they were serious. I laughed at most of the police brutality scenes just because they were delivered this way.
To summarize the story, it seems like the Candyman is a passing spirit that protects the hood from white people's police brutality by violently murdering them for being extremely stupid and goofy.
I'm planning to see 1992 original, since this one acts more like a sequel, maybe it's better.
And yeah, there's also a theme of gentrification but the film abandoned it just like most of the other ones.
From a positive standpoint, I did like some of the shots and it was nice to see Tony Todd, even in his CGI state.
It is impossible to perceive this as horror since 90% of the murders are obscured behind the scenery. It is also impossible to view this as a mystery film since there is none. And since there were no characters or character development...it's hard to view this as a film altogether.
At first, I thought this was going to be a style-over-substance film with all the allegories to the world being upside down, even the music felt like it was playing backward, but in the end, it was just a gimmick, because mirrors, yeah, ok.
I'm looking forward to seeing the 1992 film and forgetting about this one as fast as possible. At least it was funny in places.
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- Also known as
- Sát Nhân Trong Gương
- Filming locations
- DeKalb, Illinois, USA(Library Scene)
- Production companies
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- Budget
- $22,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $61,186,570
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $22,001,750
- Aug 29, 2021
- Gross worldwide
- $77,411,570
- Runtime1 hour 31 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 2.39 : 1
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