#candyman 2020

[quellstak]

Brief pause.

[chicagoscreenshots]

Candyman, 2020, among the Cabrini Green row houses.

(screenshot from the trailer)

[thorin-smokin-shield]

pros of dating the Candyman

-1890s gentleman

-handsome

-voice

-fur coat

-artist and hopeless romantic

cons

-murder

-full of bees

[demifiendrsa]

Candyman (2021) -  “The origins of Candyman” short.

CANDYMAN, at the intersection of white violence and black pain, is about unwilling martyrs. The people they were, the symbols we turn them into, the monsters we are told they must have been.

[accras]

Beautiful as ever!

[svpermonster]

“ The legend first appeared in 1890. Candyman was the son of a slave. His father had amassed a considerable fortune from designing a device for the mass producing of shoes after the Civil War. Candyman had been sent to all the best schools and had grown up in polite society. He had a prodigious talent as an artist and was much sought after when it came to the documenting of one’s wealth and position in society in a portrait. Well, it was in this latter capacity, that he was commissioned by a wealthy landowner to capture his daughter’s virginal beauty. Well, of course, they fell deeply in love and she became pregnant. Poor Candyman. Her father executed a terrible revenge. He paid a pack of brutal hooligans to do the deed. They chased Candyman through the town to Cabrini Green, where they proceeded to saw off his right hand with a rusty blade. And no one came to his aid. For this was just the beginning of his ordeal. Nearby there was an apiary. Dozens of hives, filled with hungry bees. They smashed the hive and stole the honeycomb and smeared it over his prone, naked body. Candyman was stung to death by the bees. They burned his body on a giant pyre and then scattered his ashes over Cabrini Green. ”

[dragonswereabducted]

Candyman (2020) dir. Nia DaCosta

[virginiaisforhaters]

2012/2020