Candyman’s Vanessa Williams to live tweet the original film today

Last Updated on August 2, 2021

Twenty-eight years after playing the role of Anne-Marie McCoy in the '90s horror classic CANDYMAN, actress Vanessa Williams is returning to the franchise in director Nia DaCosta's 2020 CANDYMAN. On her Twitter account, Williams appears to have confirmed that she is reprising the role of Anne-Marie in the new film, and has also lended some credibility to the rumor that the story focuses on Anne-Marie's son Anthony.

These are things Williams might be talking about later today, as she is set to host a live tweet watch-along of the original CANDYMAN on the Shadow and Act Twitter account. Fans are encouraged to tweet along using the hashtags #LockedDownLiveTweet and #Candyman. The fun begins at 4pm Eastern.

TOMORROW! 3/18 @ 1PM/4PM ET @NessaWilliams is taking over Shadow And Act’s Twitter for a #LockedDownLiveTweet of the original 1992 #Candyman! Stream for free on @netflix and tweet along with us! pic.twitter.com/lw9ocNxOxG

— Shadow And Act (@shadowandact) March 17, 2020

Directed by Bernard Rose and based on Clive Barker's short story The Forbidden, CANDYMAN was released in 1992 and has the following synopsis: 

A children's ghost story comes to terrifying life in this gut-wrenching thriller about a graduate student whose research into modern folklore summons the spirit of the dead. Helen Lyle (Virginia Madsen) laughs when she interviews college freshmen about their superstitions. But when she hears about Candyman, a slave spirit with a hook hand who is said to haunt Chicago's notorious Cabrini-Green housing project, she thinks she has a new twist for this thesis. Braving the gang-ridden territory to visit the site of a brutal murder, Helen arrogantly assumes Candyman can't really exist… until he appears, igniting a string of terrifying, tragic slayings. But the police don't believe in monsters, and they charge Helen with the grisly crimes. Only one person can set her free: CANDYMAN.

Directed by DaCosta from a screenplay she wrote with Jordan Peele and Win Rosenfeld, the new CANDYMAN has been described as a "spiritual sequel" to the original film, but if Anne-Marie and Anthony are back that's more than just a "spiritual" connection. It's scheduled to reach theatres on June 12th, if movies are being released as planned by then.