Candyman Trailer Reveals the Disturbing Origin Story for the Urban Legend

Candyman Trailer Reveals the Disturbing Origin Story for the Urban Legend

The newest trailer for Universal Pictures’ remake of Candyman by Nia DaCosta details the horrifying details behind the urban legend’s origin story.

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A new trailer for the Candyman remake uncovers the horrifying origin story of the urban legend.

The video for Nia DaCosta’s remake of the classic Candyman begins with a voiceover telling us, “This is where it all began,” as we see the Chicago Cabrini Green housing projects. The story of Candyman starts with a local man handing out candy to the little kids in the neighborhood. However, he soon began to hide razor blades among the candy. The police then come and apprehend the Candyman, beating, torturing and eventually killing him on the spot. After finding out Candyman was innocent, it appears he has begun to terrorize everyone in the community.

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After moving into the Cabrini, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II’s Anthony McCoy becomes intrigued by the legend of the Candyman, detailing the instructions that it takes to allegedly summon him. As the trailer progresses, we learn how studying and becoming obsessed with Candyman starts to dominate Anthony’s life.

The synopsis for Candyman can be found below.

For as long as the 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 the present day, a decade after the last of the Cabrini towers were torn down, a visual artist named Anthony McCoy and his girlfriend, an art gallery director named Brianna Cartwright, moved into a luxurious loft condo in Cabrini, now gentrified beyond recognition and inhabited by the upwardly mobile millennials.

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With Anthony’s painting career on the brink of stalling, a chance encounter with a Cabrini Green old-timer exposes Anthony to the tragically horrific nature of the true story behind the 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.

Directed by Nia DaCosta from a script by Jordan Peele, Win Rosenfeld and DaCosta, Candyman stars Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Teyonah Parris, Nathan Stewart-Jarrett, Colman Domingo, Vanessa A. Williams, Rebecca Spence, Cassie Kramer and Tony Todd. The film arrives in theaters on Aug. 27.

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