Candyman Official Trailer (2021) Jordan Peele, Yahya Abdul Mateen II

Oscar winner Jordan Peele unleashes a fresh take on the bloodchilling urban legend: Candyman. For as long as residents can remember, the housing projects of Chicago s CabriniGreen neighborhood were terrorized by a wordofmouth 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 AbdulMateen II) and his partner, gallery director Brianna Cartwright (Teyonah Parris), 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 CabriniGreen oldtimer (Colman Domingo) 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