Images give a new look at Nia DaCosta’s spiritual sequel to Candyman

Last Updated on July 30, 2021

A new issue of Total Film magazine is set to arrive on store shelves this Friday, an issue that boasts a "massive horror preview" – with the cover story going to director Nia DaCosta's "spiritual sequel" to the 1992 horror classic CANDYMAN (which you can watch HERE). From this issue, a few new images from the film have been released online, and these images can be seen below. Fair warning before you scroll down: the online versions of these images are low quality, which will probably help entice CANDYMAN fans to purchase the issue.

More interesting to me are the shots of the magazine cover, which are of a higher quality and give a good, although obscured, look at this film's take on the title character. That's not Tony Todd as Candyman, who appears to have a honey comb scar on the side of his face.

DaCosta wrote the screenplay for the film with Jordan Peele and Win Rosenfeld. Peele and Rosenfeld also produced the film with Ian Cooper, through Peele's company Monkeypaw Productions. 

The synopsis: 

Don’t say his name.

For as long as residents can remember, the housing projects of Chicago’s Cabrini Green neighborhood were terrorized by a word-of-mouth ghost story about a supernatural killer with a hook for a hand, easily summoned by those daring to repeat his name five times into a mirror. In present day, a decade after the last of the Cabrini towers were torn down, visual artist Anthony McCoy and his girlfriend, gallery director Brianna Cartwright, move into a luxury loft condo in Cabrini, now gentrified beyond recognition and inhabited by upwardly mobile millennials. 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.

Oscar-winner Jordan Peele unleashes a fresh take on the blood-chilling urban legend that your friend’s older sibling probably told you about at a sleepover: Candyman.

Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Teyonah Parris, Colman Domingo, and Nathan Stewart-Jarrett star in the film, with original CANDYMAN cast member Vanessa Williams returning to reprise the role of Anne-Marie McCoy. The Anthony McCoy mentioned in the synopsis is believed to be Anne-Marie's son, the baby from the first film. Tony Todd is also involved, but it's not clear how much of a role he plays.

Rated R for "bloody horror violence, and language including some sexual references", CANDYMAN is scheduled to receive a theatrical release on October 16th.