He further researches the information which leads him to encounter a neighborhood laundromat owner who also reveals his version of the urban legend, which is learned to be of an amputated hook-handed man in the 1970s named Sherman Fields who was wrongfully murdered at the hands of Chicago police officers which Cabrini Green residents believed him to be "The Candyman" who harmed children with razor blades in candy. He learns about an old urban legend that took place in the project housing developments at Cabrini Green of a grad student name Helen Lyle who became mentally insane during her research and sacrificed herself to save a baby, which sparks his interest. A young, over-confident visual artist named Anthony McCoy struggles to find inspiration to get him further exposure. It is a direct sequel to the first film, taking place twenty-seven years later, in Cabrini Green, Chicago. Yahya Abdul-Mateen II stars in the film, while Tony Todd returns to the eponymous role.
Nia DaCosta, Jordan Peele & Win RosenfeldĪ fourth film in the series was produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Monkeypaw Productions and was released on August 27, 2021. A direct sequel to the original Candyman (which ignores previous two films), directed by Nia DaCosta and produced by Jordan Peele, was released on August 27, 2021.Īlan Poul, Steve Golin & Sigurjon Sighvatsson Two sequels, Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh (1995) and Candyman: Day of the Dead (1999), were released. A novelizationĪnd a comic adaptation of the film were released in the same year.
Although the film initially underperformed at the American box office, it became a cult classic. Its film adaptation, Candyman, directed by Bernard Rose in 1992, starred Tony Todd as the title character. American supernatural slasher film series CandymanĬandyman is an American supernatural horror- slasher film series originating from the 1985 short story " The Forbidden" of the collection Books of Blood by Clive Barker, about the legend of the " Candyman", the ghost of an artist and son of a slave who was murdered in the late 19th century.
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