Nia DaCosta’s film places an act of artistic inquiry inside a supernatural story.
An artist’s exploration of the Candyman legend drives the 2021 film directed by Nia DaCosta. The story connects his present-day inquiry with a supernatural killer associated with Chicago’s Cabrini-Green. Primary source: official synopsis and credits.
The artist is entering a story already circulating before his involvement. Universal’s synopsis describes his research as the beginning of a sequence of violence, tying his attempt to understand the legend to its renewed consequences. Primary source: official synopsis and credits.
Yahya Abdul-Mateen II stars alongside Teyonah Parris, Nathan Stewart-Jarrett and Colman Domingo. Universal lists the film as a 2021 horror thriller with a running time of 91 minutes. Primary source: official synopsis and credits.
Cabrini-Green is the setting attached to the fictional haunting. The premise concerns the artist’s encounter with that invented supernatural history; the legend’s violence is not a factual description of the people who lived in the real neighborhood. Primary source: official synopsis and credits.