Nia DaCosta’s CANDYMAN Rated R for Bloody Horror Violence & More
Mike Sprague
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Nia DaCosta’s Candyman has officially been slapped with an R-rating for bloody horror violence, and language including some sexual references.
The spiritual sequel from producer Jordan Peele (Get Out, US) was set to hit earlier this month but was delayed until October 16th due to COVID-19.
Written by Peele, Win Rosenfeld, and DaCosta based on Clive Barker’s short story, it stars Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Teyonah Parris, Nathan Stewart-Jarrett, Vanessa Estelle Williams, and Tony Todd.
Here’s the synopsis: For as long as the 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 the present day, a decade after the last of the Cabrini towers were torn down, a visual artist named Anthony McCoy and his girlfriend, a gallery director named Brianna Cartwright, moved into a luxury loft condo in Cabrini, now gentrified beyond recognition and inhabited by the upwardly mobile millennials. With Anthony’s painting career on the brink of stalling, a chance encounter with a Cabrini Green old-timer exposes Anthony to the tragically horrific nature of the true story behind the 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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