He's Still Got it! Tony Todd Returns In A New Teaser For Candyman

June 30, 2020 Aaron

Hello nerds!

An all-new teaser for director Nia DaCosta‘s Candyman has arrived, and while terrifiyng, it also reveals the return of the franchise’s original Daniel Robitaille aka the Candyman.

For those unfamiliar, Candyman 2020, from producer Jordan Peele, is a direct sequel to the 1992 horror movie from Bernard Rose and Clive Barker, starring Tony Todd and Virginia Madsen. If you’ve seen it, you’re aware of why it’s considered to a true classic of the horror genre. Well, the original stars have been rumored to appear in this new version, and this latest teaser all but confirms Tony Todd will return. In some form.

In Candyman, we head back to Cabrini-Green (Chicago), where we meet artist Anthony McCoy, played by Yahya Abdul-Mateen II. And Anthony is trying to dig up the truth behind the legend of Candyman, but as a result, he’s either losing his mind or he’s becoming the legend himself. Prepare yourselves to be scared. Very scared.

And I adore that in the teaser, we hear the name “Candyman” only 4 times. Pure genius.

Written by Jordan Peele and Win Rosenfeld, Candyman starring Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Teyonah Parris, Nathan Stewart-Jarrett, Colman Domingo and Tony Todd hacks into theaters in September, 2020.

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 (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II; HBO’s Watchmen, Us) and his girlfriend, gallery director Brianna Cartwright (Teyonah Parris; If Beale Street Could Talk, The Photograph), 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 (Colman Domingo; HBO’s Euphoria, Assassination Nation) 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.

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