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Friday, August 27, 2021
Review: CANDYMAN 2021 is a Good Horror Movie and an Even Better Black Movie
Candyman (2021)
Running time: 91 minutes (1 hour, 31 minutes)
MPAA – R for bloody horror violence, and language including some sexual references
DIRECTOR: Nia DaCosta
WRITERS: Jordan Peele & Win Rosenfeld and Nia DaCosta (based on characters created by Clive Barker and Bernard Rose)
PRODUCERS: Ian Cooper, Jordan Peele, and Win Rosenfeld
CINEMATOGRAPHER: John Guleserian (D.o.P.)
EDITOR: Catrin Hedström
COMPOSER: Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe
HORROR/DRAMA/FANTASY
Starring: Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Teyonah Parris, Nathan Stewart-Jarrett, Colman Domingo, Kyle Kaminsky, Vanessa Williams, Brian King, Miriam Moss, Rebecca Spence, Carl Clemons-Hopkins, Rodney L. Jones III, and Tony Todd
Candyman is a 2021 supernatural horror and slasher film from director Nia DaCosta. The film is written by DaCosta and Win Rosenfeld and Jordan Peele of Get Out fame. This new film is adapted from the short story, “The Forbidden,” by Clive Barker and from the 1992 film adaptation of Barker's story, entitled Candyman, which was written and directed by Bernard Rose. Candyman 2021 is also a “spiritual sequel” to the 1992 film and is set in the now-gentrified Chicago neighborhood where the legend of the notorious and murderous boogeyman began.
Candyman is set in the Cabrini neighborhood on the North Side of Chicago. Visual artist and painter, Anthony McCoy (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II), lives and his girlfriend, Brianna Cartwright (Teyonah Parris), an art gallery director, live there, navigating the treacherous world of modern art. But once upon a time, Cabrini was the infamous “Cabrini-Green Homes” (projects), which have now been gentrified beyond recognition. Still, some sections of the old Cabrini-Green still exist near where Anthony and Brianna live.
Around Cabrini, there is a ghost story (of sorts) about a white woman, Helen Lyle, who went crazy and, among many things, kidnapped an African-American baby. Anthony meets William Burke, a Cabrini-Green old-timer, and William informs Anthony of Cabrini-Green's true boogeyman, the supernatural killer, Candyman. The story goes that if someone stares into a mirror and says Candyman's name five times, he will appear and kill that person.
With his art career seeming to stall, Anthony uses the horrific nature of the legend of Candyman as inspiration for a new series of paintings and art. However, Anthony is unaware that he has unleashed something that will test his sanity and that has a shocking connection to his past. And the brutal murders have begun.
Candyman is as much about African-American history and folklore as it is about the mythopoeia (mythology) of Candyman. The writers focus on a world in which Black people, especially impoverished and powerless Black people, are moved around and used as pawns by the White supremacist power structure. The history of the Cabrini-Green Homes is the perfect example. For a long time it was low income housing i.e. the projects for African-American tenants, as seen in the original Candyman film. Beginning in the mid-1990s, Cabrini gradually underwent a process of gentrification, and is now the setting of Candyman 2021.
The White power structure moved Cabrini-Green's poor and working class African-American tenants to other places in our world. In the world of Candyman 2021, the great boogeyman of poor, Black folks that populated Candyman 1992 has been replaced by an urban legend of a new and incorrect boogeyman – Helen Lyle, who was really Candyman's ultimate victim in the original film. Candyman 2021 corrects that, restoring Black folklore and stories via Anthony McCoy.
Director Nia DaCosta and her co-writers, Jordan Peele and Win Rosenfeld, as much as they deal with issues of cultural appropriation, Black art, and history, boldly tackle the racist violence of White supremacy, here, brazenly personified as White police officers and as over-policing. Unlike the first film, which seems to (benignly) suggest that Black victims (Daniel Robitaille) become Black monsters (the Candyman), the victims in Candyman 2021 are mostly less sympathetic than Candyman.
As excellent as I think Candyman is as a “Black film,” it is less so as a horror movie. The reason is that this new film does not play with the monster/victim dynamic, which the first film did via Helen Lyle and Candyman. The victims are the bodies of Black folks, as seen in the scandalous shadow puppet animation (created by Manual Cinema) that plays across the end credits. The monster is White racist and supremacist oppression of African-Americans. In spite of this film's creepiness and weirdness, I still miss some old-fashioned final girl/slasher killer interplay.
In Candyman 2021, I didn't quite get the horror movie I thought I would get. I got the Black movie that I very much needed to get.
A
8 out of 10
Friday, August 27, 2021
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Read my review of the 1992 Candyman here.
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Comics Review: DEJAH THORIS VERSUS JOHN CARTER #2
DEJAH THORIS VERSUS JOHN CARTER, VOL. 1 #2
DYNAMITE ENTERTAINMENT
STORY: Dan Abnett
ART: Alessandro Miracolo
COLORS: Dearbhla Kelly
LETTERS: Simon Bowland
EDITOR: Nate Cosby
COVER: Lucio Parrillo
VARIANT COVER ARTISTS: Joseph Michael Linsner; Alessandro Miracolo; Sebastian Fiumara; (Rachel Hollon cosplay)
32pp, Color, $3.99 U.S. (August 2021)
Rated Teen+
Based on the characters and stories created by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Dejah Thoris and John Carter are characters that first appeared in the serialized novel, Under the Moons of Mars (The All-Story, 1912), written by Tarzan creator, Edgar Rice Burroughs. When it was first collected and published in hardcover, the novel was re-titled, A Princess of Mars (1917), the first of Burroughs' “Barsoom” novels, which were set on Barsoom, a fictional version of Mars.
Dejah was the title character of A Princess of Mars, the princess of the Martian city-state/empire of Helium. John Carter was a Confederate veteran of the American Civil War who was transported to Mars via “astral projection” where he got a new body that was similar to the one he left behind on Earth. John made several trips back and forth between Earth and Barsoom, and Dejah and John were married and had two children.
John Carter first appeared in comic books in the early 1950s, and Dejah has become a prominent comic book character since 2010 via Dynamite Entertainment. Now, the star-crossed lovers are the stars of Dynamite's new comic book, Dejah Thoris Versus John Carter. The series is written by Dan Abnett; drawn by Alessandro Miracolo; colored by Dearbhla Kelly; and lettered by Simon Bowland. The series finds Dejah and John caught in a war to save Mars from an ancient race, “The Longborn,” that has returned to reclaim Mars.
As Dejah Thoris Versus John Carter #2 opens, Dejah Thoris, Queen of Helium, and her forces, the “Helium Warhost,” have traveled far into the distant west to Dar Shadeth. There, she hoped to confront the rogue scientist, Rotak Gall, who had allied against her with her now-dead rival, the tyrant Kurz Kurtos. Rotak claims he wants to explain his actions and to make amends.
Dejah takes a calculated risk and trusts him, believing that Rotak could aid in defending against the dreaded Longborn. She did not expect “the Black Pirates” and Rotak's scheming. And where is her former hero, John Carter?
THE LOWDOWN: Dynamite Entertainment's marketing department recently began providing me with PDF review copies of some of their titles. One of them is Dejah Thoris Versus John Carter #2, the second issue of the series that I have read.
I found the first issue of Dejah Thoris Versus John Carter #1 to be likable, and I like this second issue even more. The art by Alessandro Miracolo still reminds me of the kind of art that readers would find in a Flash Gordon comic book. Miracolo's art and Dearbhla Kelly colors create the idea that the story takes place on a different planet simply by making the atmosphere and lighting look like they are part of an alien biosphere.
Writer Dan Abnett, a veteran comic book scribe, kicks the story into the next gear simply by placing Dejah in Rotak's clutches. Now, everything is on the line for the main characters, and Abnett amps up the anticipation for the next issue by using John Carter as a wild card. This second issue is more action oriented than the first issue. I have to say that I am enjoying Dejah Thoris Versus John Carter more than I thought I would, so I am recommending to fans of the franchise.
I READS YOU RECOMMENDS: Fans of Dynamite's Dejah Thoris and Barsoom comic books will want to try Dejah Thoris Versus John Carter.
B+
Reviewed by Leroy Douresseaux a.k.a. "I Reads You"
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