Candyman 2021's Connections to the Original Make It Great
Candyman Isn't Just a Good Horror Movie; It Might Be the Golden Standard For Sequels
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Although titled Candyman, the 1992 film really focuses on Helen and her journey to uncover the urban legend. The latest addition to the franchise makes Helen a footnote to Candyman's overall legend and puts the focus back on the supernatural entity. It also continues to play with the themes of racism and classism seen in the first film by making the lead a Black artist in a recently gentrified area of Chicago versus a white grad student encroaching upon an urban housing project.
"The film is really about how storytelling is used around these horrific events, to either help process or to campaign or to create a martyr out of people who ended up leaving us too soon through these terrible acts of racial violence," director DaCosta told Collider. "You have to balance with the real world themes that we're talking about. For me, it was just that I really care a lot about those things and I care about portraying them in the right way."