I’ll repeat “Beetlejuice” any number of times, but “Candyman” five times in a row? Never. Maybe it’s because I was too young to see the 1992 horror movie or because I’m a fearful person, but I’d prefer not risk my life. Is a bee-hooked assassin on his way to kill me? Thank you, I’m OK. So I guess I won’t be seeing Nia DaCosta’s Candyman’s new trailer because the only way to see it is to go to IDareYou.CandymanMovie.com and state his name five times into the microphone. Warning: According to IGN, this will cause a “swarm of bees to appear on-screen during the procedure, becoming larger with each progressive iteration.”
For my fellow cowards out there, don’t worry, there’s no new footage.
Here’s more:
Visual artist Anthony McCoy and his fiancée, gallery director Brianna Cartwright, move into a luxury loft condo in Cabrini, now gentrified beyond recognition and populated by upwardly ambitious millennials, a decade after the last of the Cabrini towers were demolished. A fortunate encounter with a Cabrini Green old-timer exposes Anthony to the terribly horrible truth of the true tale behind Candyman, just as his painting career is about to stagnate. In order to keep his standing in the Chicago art community, Anthony begins to examine these gruesome details in his studio as new fodder for paintings, unwittingly opening a door to a complex history that unravels his sanity and unleashes a wave of violence that puts him on a collision course with destiny.
Candyman, which stars Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Teyonah Parris, Nathan Stewart-Jarrett, and Colman Domingo, and Vanessa Estelle Williams and Tony Todd from the original film, opens on August 27.
