As if the forthcoming Candyman could get any scarier, director Nia DaCosta just shared a chilling new teaser that reveals the killer’s origin story.
And much like the history of America, it’s steeped in what DaCosta calls “Black pain.”
The director shared the teaser on Twitter Wednesday, writing in the caption: “CANDYMAN, at the intersection of white violence and Black pain, is about unwilling martyrs.
The final scene of the teaser, which features “shadow puppetry” by Manual Cinema, explains Candyman’s origin as a Black painter, who befalls to a lynch mob after falling in love with a White woman whose portrait he captured.
Desperate to make a name for himself in his stalling career, McCoy begins painting versions of Candyman and unknowingly opens a door for the menacing to continue.
