Candyman: Director Nia DaCosta Creates Haunting Teaser

Director Nia DaCosta’s new installment of the 1992 horror classic Candyman will head to theaters this fall, thanks to the global pandemic. The film picks up in the modern day, gentrified, Chicago neighborhood of Cabrini-Green where the legend began.

The film was originally supposed to hit theaters this month, but was pushed back like most films this year. Even though fans will have to wait until fall, DaCosta took to Twitter today to share a new paper-puppet teaser to get fans ready to say his name.

It’s been 28 years since the first film starring Tony Todd as the hook handed slasher. However, the social issues that the original film focused on, are only amplified by recent occurrences all over the United States.

You can check out the haunting video below. Candyman comes to theaters on September 25, 2020.

CANDYMAN, at the intersection of white violence and black pain, is about unwilling martyrs. The people they were, the symbols we turn them into, the monsters we are told they must have been. pic.twitter.com/MEwwr8umdI
— Nia DaCosta (@NiaDaCosta) June 17, 2020