Candyman remake

This trailer is everything I wanted. This feels like a natural next step to the original and seeing a grown-up version of the kid Candyman asked Helen to kill for him is now his successor is brilliant. Also, the usage of an old R&B song in a horror movie seems like Peele's new staple. He brilliantly used a similar method for last year's Us.
 
As someone with fond memories of watching the first two films with my cousins at sleepovers I think this looks really good.
 
This looks really good honestly. is this a total reboot?
 
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Yahya’s O-face needs to become a meme.
 
Between this and Halloween Kills I am so ready for the return of slasher movies with the insanely high body counts. Outside of Halloween 2018 we really don't get those kind of mainstream, mid budget horror films anymore which is shame because I really miss them. The carnage is this looks like it's really going to deliver too, especially that bathroom scene. A sick part of me is hoping that it's as horrific as I'm imaging it to be lol.
 
It looks okay. At least the trailer is. It just kind of looks like they're copying Jordan Peele's style. It's hard to tell if that's how the trailer is cut or if it's the film. It looks like the Get Out version of Candyman; almost as if executives in a room cynically came up with it. Well I always thought Candyman was just a great film by itself first and then was ahead of its time in hindsight. It's like people are ascribing their own experiences on something and putting it through a more superficial (maybe? hard to tell) progressive 2020 lens... well... you kind of get the same exact movie with the exception of a few tangible details. The song choice just doesn't work, clearly ripping off Us's trailer but comes nowhere close to that brilliant usage of that certain song which was there for a reason; which was part of Peele's vision. Here... I'm not sure what the hell it is, and I can't even tell if this will be good.

I'm just not seeing anything that makes this look different or stand out from the original. I was open to this because of Peele producing, hoping for a totally new interpretation. Like a Watchmen-esque remix. It didn't necessarily even have to be that, just interesting on its own terms. But it just looks like the original dressed in 2020 clothes. The first is great as is and it still holds up as great movies do. This trailer isn't giving me a compelling reason why it was remade. It's difficult to see the vision here. The Peele stuff either is in the way or that's the movie. Unless the reviews are undeniable I'll wait until it streams one day.
 
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Yeah. I feel like slashers had a chance to make a comeback when they rebooted F13 and Nightmare on Elm Street, but they fumbled the ball with both of those movies. They were so bad. But maybe with Halloween and now this, the genre will see a resurgence. What are some other slashers that should get revisited?
 
Yeah. I feel like slashers had a chance to make a comeback when they rebooted F13 and Nightmare on Elm Street, but they fumbled the ball with both of those movies. They were so bad. But maybe with Halloween and now this, the genre will see a resurgence. What are some other slashers that should get revisited?

Assuming this is good, which I can't really tell if it is or not. If slasher were to make a return, it'd be nice to see it happen organically starting with something fresh and for good reason with something more original preferably. Horror historically seems to evolve, hence why I said I hope it's organic. I don't want to regress for the sake of seeing a particular brand of horror return.
 
Assuming this is good, which I can't really tell if it is or not. If slasher were to make a return, it'd be nice to see it happen organically starting with something fresh and for good reason with something more original preferably. Horror historically seems to evolve, hence why I said I hope it's organic. I don't want to regress for the sake of seeing a particular brand of horror return.

True. The problem with the horror genre is that when something fairly new comes along and is successful, they tend to milk it for all it’s worth with bad sequels and then you’ll have a ton of copycats. Scream, for example, was great. But then you had a string of mediocre follow-ups and wannabes like I Know You Did Last Summer.

Saw was a similar situation. Shocking and fresh and it could have been a horror classic but they decided to crank out bad sequels on a YEARLY basis, and then you had Eli Roth and other copycats spewing out torture porn trash that wasn’t half as good. It turned Saw into a joke.
 
Oh really. I thought it was a remake/reboot.
Kind of seems like it serves the purpose of both sequel and reboot tbh. Obviously if it follows up on points the original made, it’s a sequel, but it’s also the first Candyman movie in 21 years. There will be kids seeing this that weren’t even alive for the last one, much less the original. It’s giving the series life for a new generation.
 
Talked to a friend of mine today that attended the early test screening that occurred the same night as the Halloween Kills test screening in LA. He said as a huge fan of the franchise, he outright hated this interpretation. Said in many ways it was a disappointment and did not live up to the Candyman name. When asked if he felt if was a solid thriller in it's own right, he replied that all around it was awful and that the group of friends he went with all felt similarly.

Let's hope they fix whatever issues this flick has before June.
 
This looks like a generic horror to me.

But then again, i'm not really familliar with Candyman.
 
Kind of seems like it serves the purpose of both sequel and reboot tbh. Obviously if it follows up on points the original made, it’s a sequel, but it’s also the first Candyman movie in 21 years. There will be kids seeing this that weren’t even alive for the last one, much less the original. It’s giving the series life for a new generation.

I am betting that there is a passing o the torch.
 
No way this Candyman will be as terrifying as the last one though.


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Looks decent. Kinda better than I expected actually
 
Trailer was pretty solid. I will check this out in june. One thing i see that no ones talking about is the return of Vanessa Williams character. She was the black woman in the trailer saying no dont say his name. She played the woman in the first film that Virgina Madsen was accused of kidnapping the baby of. It looked like she shared a scene in the trailer with Yahya's character. I wonder could he be her baby all grown up?
 
I hope the second trailer draws me in a little more than this one did. I'm happy to see Tony Todd,Virginia Madsen and Vanessa Williams are in this. It's also a good sign that Clive posted the trailer on Facebook this morning.
 
Eh, pretty standard horror trailer. Candyman is one of those film franchises that I know I've seen pieces of over the years, but can't remember whether or not I've seen an entire movie. I just remember the guy who played him more than anything else.
 

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