Yahya Abdul-Mateen II in ‘Candyman’: Film Review

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In Candyman, Nia DaCosta uses the 1992 film as a jumping-off point for bone-chilling horror that expands on the urban legend within the context of Black history, as well as the distorting white narrative that turns Black victims into monsters Review:

, this new entry from his Monkeypaw Productions stable uses horror as a powerful lens to reflect Black trauma, encompassing a legacy that dates back more than a century and continues with today’s

cycle of violence. “Candyman is how we deal with the fact that these things happened,” explains one character of the enduring myth and its relationship to racial violence. “That they’re still happening.”

 

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And how about the black narrative that turns the white lead of the original into a monster even though at least 2 of the characters would tell the real story. And there is only one Candyman and that's Tony Todd and this doesn't deserve to use those two seconds at the end of him

Sounds like woke sjw bullshit. Shame. I’ll be watching the original Candyman

what BS. Hollywood stopped portraying black people as any kind of villain decades ago. They are now laughably unrealistic & out of touch with real world cause hardly any criminals in film or Tv are black. Now even the ONE famous horror villain is spun as a victim!

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