Starring: Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Teyonah Parris, Nathan Stewart-Jarrett, Colman Domingo, Kyle Kaminsky, Vanessa Williams, Rebecca Spence, Christiana Clark, Cassie Kramer, Brian King, Tony Todd, Miriam Moss
Story:
Horror thriller reboot directed by Nia DaCosta and co-written and co-produced by Jordan Peele. Candyman (2021) follows artist Anthony McCoy (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II), who becomes obsessed with the legend of the serial killer, Candyman, as he returns to the neighborhood where the legend began, the now-gentrified section of Chicago where the Cabrini-Green housing projects once stood.
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We’ll add the best quotes once the movie is released and we’ve had a chance to watch it, but for now here’s a small selection.
Quotes:
[five teenage girls are standing in front of a bathroom mirror]
Teenage Girls: Candyman. Candyman. Candyman. Candyman. Candyman.
[pause]
Teenage Girl #1: Well, we’re still alive.
[someone enters the public bathroom]
Teenage Girl #2: Let’s go.
[they are unable to open the door]
Teenage Girl #2: Trina, you broke the door.
[they start seeing bees appear]
Trina: This isn’t funny!
Anthony McCoy: I feel really connected to this neighborhood. Cabrini-Green. It was the projects.
Anthony McCoy: I just moved here, around the corner.
William Burke: The old candy factory.
Anthony McCoy: I’m an artist
William Burke: You look up the Candyman. He’s the monster, it’s part of this neighborhood.
William Burke: This is where it all began, the story of Candyman. Local character, he’d walk around handing out candy to the neighborhood kids. One day, a couple of kids get razor blades in their candy. The police come around. That’s when I saw the true face of fear.
William Burke: They beat him. Tortured him. Killed him, right there on the spot. A couple weeks later, more razor bladed, and more candy. He’d been innocent.
Anthony McCoy: So he’s real?
William Burke: Candyman ain’t a he. Candyman is the whole damn hive.
William Burke: If you’re out here looking for Candyman, you ask me, stay away.
Troy Cartwright: That neighborhood is haunted.
Anthony McCoy: I feel really connected to this story.
Brianna Cartwright: Go on.
Anthony McCoy: Right here, in this neighborhood, the legend started.
Brianna Cartwright: Uh-huh.
Anthony McCoy: And the legend is, if we say his name five times, while looking in the mirror, we could summon him. He appears in the reflection, and it kills you.
Brianna Cartwright: Hell no. Who would do that?
Anthony McCoy: Candyman.
Brianna Cartwright: Anthony, no!
Anthony McCoy: Candyman.
Brianna Cartwright: Stop!
Brianna Cartwright: You better not to do that last one.
Brianna Cartwright: I don’t want to be creeped out in my new apartment before bed.
Brianna Cartwright: Why are you drawn to this?
Anthony McCoy: I’m hoping to spread the story, all about Candyman.
Anthony McCoy: The mirror invites you to summon him.
Grady Smith: Summon the Candyman.
Troy Cartwright: Black people don’t need to be summoning.
Anthony McCoy: You should say it. Say his name.
Anthony McCoy: You should say his name. I dare you.
Grady Smith: Candyman.
Finley Stephens: Candyman.
Troy Cartwright: Candyman.
Brianna Cartwright: Anthony, are you okay? What the hell is going on?
Anthony McCoy: Candyman.
Anne-Marie McCoy: Ssh. Don’t. Don’t say that.
Anthony McCoy: I think it made a mistake. I brought him back.
Brianna Cartwright: Candyman isn’t real!
Anthony McCoy: Something is happening to me.
Anne-Marie McCoy: He chose you. He has a purpose for you to be another one of his terrible stories.
Anthony McCoy: I guess he found me.
Anthony McCoy: You want to be a part of the story, right?
Brianna Cartwright: No!
Anthony McCoy: Say his name.
Brianna Cartwright: This is not real! This is not real!
Candyman: I am the writing on the wall, the sweet smell of blood. Be my victim.
Trailer: