Candyman Trailer 3 Updates: The remake of Nia DaCosta’s Candyman trailer has arrived, which consists of a bag full of information about the horror movie with a twist in its story. The original Bernard Rose’s cut of classic horror of Candyman released back in 1992, moved the action of horror author Clive Barker’s source short story “The Forbidden” from working-class Liverpool to the under-resourced projects of Illinois.
The infamous plot of the tale somehow remained the same. Candyman tells the story of Helen, a well-off student whose curiosity into urban legends leads her to the notoriously under-resourced Cabrini Green project in inner-city Chicago.
The residents feared this dreadful hook-handed monster, an unforgettable villain played by imposing Tony Todd. However, he’s different from earlier slashers like Friday the 13th’s Jason Voorhees who was summoned by a teen having premarital sex and drugs, Candyman appeared to whom with daring – and foolish – enough to say moniker five times in the mirror.
An original thought, dark take on the Bloody Mary urban myth, Candyman gave Todd’s villain character a distressful backstory that gave him the motivation to wreak bloody vengeance more understandable, believable than any other slasher.
Rose’s horror story gave a clear stratification and gentrification, with Helen who wants to study the folklore of Cabrini Green’s residents but refusing to live in that area herself in classic NIMBY fashion. In the early ’90s, it was termed terrifying and it’s recently remade by future The Marvels’ helmer Nia DaCosta.
This Candyman remake has been labeled with a spiritual sequel to the original, but by the looks of the movie’s recently released third trailer, it changes a lot about the story.
The Candyman Has A Brand New Origin Story:
In the original 1992 movie, Candyman was used to be a son of a slave who worked as an artist and fell in love with a wealthy white man’s daughter, eventually having a child with her. Knowing this his father full of rage set a lynch mob on the innocent man, with the group damaging and rapturing his body leaving him to be stung to death by bees.
This backend moving story made the villain more sympathetic compared to contemporaries slasher, and the remake looks to double down on this approach by revisiting a twist cut from Nightmare on elm street’s 2010 remake.
The Candyman’s new origin story goes like which turns him into a harmless local oddball who used to hand out candy to children, only for him to be brutalized, tortured, and murdered by police officers when a kid finds razor blades in their candy.
After regular turn up of razor blades soon after his death, Candyman’s name was cleared, but until then the damage was done and the urban legend is set in motion according to the remake’s version of events.
Candyman’s M.O. Is Still The Same:
While there is a change in Candyman’s original story, his way of killing remains the same. In the original horror movie, Candyman used to appear when anyone said his name five times in a mirror, with a lot of people summoning the character as a dare or prank. According to the trailer, it remains and operates in a similar manner in the remake.
Candyman Trailer 3: The Candyman Hero Is Now An Artist:
ScreenRantJudging by the trailer Yahya Abdul-Mateen is the hero in the movie is going to be an artist interested in the folklore surrounding Cabrini Green’s resident boogeyman. In the original, the heroine, Helen, was a white woman and a graduate student studying folklore, whereas here, the hero is a Black man who works as a fine artist ( and possibly photographer ).
It’s an interesting twist that changes the character’s motivation to learn & investigate burn legend, as this horror movie hero is more interested in the artistic, rather than sociological, the implication of Candyman myth.
Candyman Is No Longer An Artist:
While the movie’s hero is an artist, the Candyman trailer has put up no reason for viewers to believe that Candyman has kept his artist role. Judging by the trailer, he was a kooky-but-harmless person during his life, but the remake doesn’t towards his work as an artist the way the original movie did. In 1992’s version of Candyman featured a mural of him but there’s no glance of it in this teaser.
Candyman’s Journey Against Gentrification Is A Lot More Literal:
In the original movie, there was an implication that Candyman’s reign of terror was shifted upon residents of Cabrini Green extended upon onto newcomers who had hands-on gentrification of the area.
Many victims of Candyman were young artists in the movie trailer, with one of them being dragged through the bare concrete floor of a swanky gallery.
Candyman’s Revenge Gets Direct:
In Candyman’s trailer flashback it was seen that his death took place around forty years back so, there’s no doubt the corrupt officers are still there. For now, at least, as the trailer sees one boy in blue lose his face (and, presumably, life) to Candyman’s hook hand in a more cut-and-dried iteration of violent vengeance than the original iteration of the character ever got to enjoy.
Candyman May Take On To A New Host:
In the original movie, Candyman casually seeks favor from Helen over to the dark side and successfully convinced her to join him to hunt the residents.
Helen’s death saw her become his eventual accomplice. However, until that time the character was way more tortured mentally and once harmed by Candyman, where the remake appears to take another route.
Transformation of Candyman Looks slower And A Lot Painful:
In the original movie Candyman can able to control Helen by leading her towards blackout numerous times, but what he wasn’t able to do was cause the sort of David Cronenberg-style body horror seen throughout the new trailer.
While as seen in the trailer the new Candyman appears to transform slowly and painfully. If the new trailer is anything to go by, the remake will see its hero become Candyman as his hand’s skin peels away to make way for the trademark hook in its place, where Helen became his accomplice via psychological rather than psychical means.
