Jordan Peele is Back to Scare You with the Creepy Candyman

He will also change how you feel when you hear “Say My Name”

If you consider series like Amazon’s Hunters by Jordan Peele to be simple entertainment and prefer something terrifying, your wish has been granted. Jordan Peele is back with the Candyman, and this time, things will be scarier than before. The first trailer of the film lets you know what has happened thirty years since the release of the first movie.

 

Yes, Jordan Peele’s Candyman will be a direct sequel to the movie released in 1992 in which a graduate student was targeted by the Candyman while investigating an urban legend. Those of you who prefer horror flicks over others would know that Jordan Peele excels at delivering horror movies that can scare you to death. He did that with movies like Us and Get Out.

In this new project, Jordan Peele is collaborating with director Nia Dacosta. The trailer of the film shows the artist Anthony McCoy (who played Yahya Abdul-Mateen II in Watchmen) and his girlfriend Brianna (who played Teyonah Parris in If Beale Street Could Talk). They are in the same Chicago community that was seen in the first film.

 

Tony Todd is also returning to reprise the role of the Candyman in Jordan Peele’s project, and he seems as terrifying as ever. This movie might likely focus on the effect of gentrification on Cabrini-Green neighbourhood of Chicago. As Jordan Peele often uses horror films to focus on vital socio-economic and socio-political issues, the film will likely motivate people to talk about the effects of gentrification in low-income neighbourhoods.

 

The detailed synopsis of the film reads:

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 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.

 

Jordan Peele’s Candyman will hit the theatres on the 12th of June, 2020.