Jordan Peele’s ‘CandyMan’

Looks surprisingly good. Love the original, but the sequels have been a little iffy.

Nothing against Peele but Candyman is a Clive Barker creation. A gay white man.

Jordan Peele is boss

Jordan Peele proves again he can take a classic R&;B song Say My Name and remix it into a horror track we never knew we wanted for the #candymanmovie

Peele ruined The Twilight Zone with wokeness and will likely ruin this too.

Stick to your original material dude.

The first one was nothing worth watching again...so pass.

The first one is a horror classic

On the bottom of the 'horror classic" list

I like the idea that this one is also set at the site of the original- only all the projects have been torn down and it's a different neighborhood.

Nia DaCosta

Looks good. Love that they brought back Vanessa Williams from the original.

I never liked the original. I too will pass on this and maybe give Run a shot.

Vanessa was in the original?

R12 I was wondering how long before they did a Munchausen syndrome by proxy horror movie...

Not THAT Vanessa Williams. The Vanessa Williams they got rid of on Melrose Place. Virginia Madsen chopped her dog's head off and hid her baby in the first Candyman.

Sexy lead.

I am not a fan of the original, but I'm sure Jordan Peele will do something a little better with it.

Interesting they changed the lead from a white woman to a black man. Now they can't do the racially "star-crossed lovers" backstory for Candyman, unless they make the Candyman white and gay.

Peele isn't directing, so I wonder what we'll get.

That’s Yahya Abdul-Mateen II

More like Cockyman

Direct link to the trailer.

How many Oscars did 'Us' win?????????

R15, stop saying false things about Virginia Madsen! Candyman was the responsible party for the things you allege Virginia of having done.

For the record, this movie is about the baby Anthony all grown up.

God bless you R18

The trailer looks. Could have done without Destiny's Child in the background.

That lead - I'd spend the rest of my life on my knees in front of him...

R23, taking popular songs and making them into horror tracks has become Jordan’s signature, and audiences love it

R18, Jesus! He has a huge cock. He was cute before I knew this, but he might have just become the most attractive man in the world in my eyes.

Neither Get Out or Us were really horror films. Peele makes dramas, not horror.

Next up: "Blacula".

Wow, seems this Vanessa Williams is still a tad insecure (and pissed) about her name.

Great trailer.

You can’t say all white gays on DL are racist because I want his BBC!

R25 I know but I just wasn't feeling this one.

R31, disgusting

I like Jordan Peele's work - this should be fun

Indeed bro

Nonsense, r27 - they're definitely horror films. Just because they're more original than the genre average doesn't mean they're not part of the genre.

It will probably be better than Us.

Get out makes use of every horror trope in existence and is not even original. Skeleton Key did it better years earlier. It's definitely horror.

Should've had Tony Todd return but I guess they didn't was because of that whole they wanted to take things in a different direction crap they usually spout in cases such as these.

Black dude does a riff on ira levin’s stepford wives, gets overpraised to the skies because he’s black, now he’s just riffing on more white man’s art... groundbreaking.

Tony Todd IS returning as Candyman. Stupid me. This is why you don't post when you're half asleep like I was just now.

He should remake "Coffy" or "Foxy Brown."

I can’t Believe someone claimed they aren’t horror movies

r40- They say that about Quentin Tarantino as well, and he gets nominations and praises to the skies.

I'm pumped about this

Me too

And I should add that Quentin 's "inspirations" are Blacksploitation and Kung Fu films.

Jordan Peele is this generation's M. Night Shalalawhatever. Hopefully he doesn't make as many clunkers as M. Night.

Peele is only a producer here. They're using his name to sell it.

How about Antebellum?

Different genre / tone, r42.

[Quote] Hopefully he doesn't make as many clunkers as M. Night.

I feel like his filmography went downhill after Signs. But I enjoyed The Visit and Split.

[QUOTE] Tony Todd IS returning as Candyman.

Yeah R41 I didn’t know that until I looked into it further. They seem to be hiding it with the trailer and maybe they wanted us to be pleasantly surprised when we actually saw him in the movie.

He's already out of ideas and making remakes. Well, that didn't last long did it?

It’s not a remake, it’s a sequel. Basically like Halloween 2018.

Can’t stand Peele’s -over-hyped because he’s black- work.

Racist much, R56? Peele’s work would stand on its own if he were white.

If you've ever watched Key and Peele, they both have deep love, appreciation and knowledge of cinema and television.

R49 I thought he wrote the screenplay too.

Disgusting racism

Bump

I'd like to see it even though I think it's kind of funny how he blackwashed the main character.

While I don't think Get Out deserved any Oscar love, it was a good movie that was well written and thoughtful. Us was a bit of a mess, but it had good moments, too. I still like Peele, but I do think that Oscar stuff might have been the worst thing to ever happen to him. People are going to expect too much of him on every project from now on and, since he's peddling in the horror genre which doesn't always get critical love, he might be in trouble.

R62, how did he “blackwash” the main character when the main character in this is the grownup black baby from the first film?

Exactly

Highly-anticipated slasher, ‘Candyman’ has been bumped from June 12 to Sept. 25

(via @DEADLINE |)

Hardly surprising. At least we'll have a nice number of horror films to look forward to this fall.

I’m excited for this.

Well, COVID-19 may have pushed CANDYMAN to a September release.

But it looks like the horror video game DEAD BY DAYLIGHT is moving forward with plans to introduce the Candyman as a killer this month!

You'll be able to play as the Candyman and maybe one of his victims. My fingers are crossed for a bee attack!

[Quote] My fingers are crossed for a bee attack!

[Italic] Excellent [/Italic]

Can anyone top Tony Todd, though?

Tony Todd is reprising his role as Candyman in the Jordan Peele movie, r71.

So everybody wins.

It looks like DEAD BY DAYLIGHT's new chapter is for SILENT HILL, not CANDYMAN. You can now play as Pyramid Head or Cheryl Mason.

This isn't the first time DBD has incorporated old video games into theirs. The creators are major, horror gaming fanboys and they incorporated Bill Overbeck and several character outfits from LEFT 4 DEAD previously.

This doesn't mean the Candyman rumors are bullshit. Maybe they simply moved the Candyman chapter to release in September with Jordan Peele's movie.

I know if I were the studio, I would want the DEAD BY DAYLIGHT chapter to come out at the same time as the film for promotional purposes.

Tony Todd is sexy.

I like that Tony Todd's coming back, but it doesn't make a lot of sense since the first movie implies that he's banished or what-have-you and that Virginia Madsen's character is the new bogeyman you can summon through a mirror. It also doesn't make sense that he would age.

Doesn’t make a lot of sense? We’re talking about horror movies here, R75.

Meh. His films are overrated. “Get Out” was entertaining, but nothing special. “Us” just plain sucked.

He’s not directing this movie, R77.

R75: ITA. For continuity - Virginia Madsen (or a white actress who looks like her) should play the new boogeyman. Tony Todd with (makeup/CGI to look younger) could be her accomplice. I like the grown-up baby Anthony story though!

R15: Didn't Candyman kill the dog and hid the baby to setup Helen? Helen didn't do any actual killing until her husband in the final scene.

Correct. Candyman killed the dog and stole Anthony.

Weren’t there already two sequels without Virginia Madsen and Candyman returned to his place as the villain? The ending of the original was discarded long ago. Come on, man. Should we discuss the haphazard continuity of the Halloween films? I mean they just came out with one that outright jettisoned 30 years worth of sequels. And before that, Rob Zombie made an awful remake with the same title. In fact there’s now three movies called “Halloween”!

R82: True, but 2 and 3 were terrible and panned! It would be great if this Candyman was the true sequel to replace the other 2 (similar to the latest Terminator which ignored the terrible interim sequels after Terminator 2 by bringing Hamilton back).

But nobody wants to see Virginia Madsen or anyone who looks like her as the villain. For christ sake, we want Candyman. He’s one of the greatest horror movie icons and one of the few boogeymen who still scares me as an adult. Why would you want to mess with that?

R84: Yeah, he is pretty damn scary! I will ignore the continuity issue👍