Candyman (2021)

Anthony, an artist looking for inspiration, hears the legend of the Candy Man and goes digging for information. After getting stung by a bee and listening to a local talk about CM, he winds up creating an art piece called "Say My Name" that looks like a mirrored medicine cabinet. He's helpfully distributed fliers explaining you have to say Candyman 5 times to a mirror to summon the killer. Because people are dumb and looking for excitement, a bunch of them die. Meanwhile, Anthony's bee sting is turning his hand and arm into a decaying mess but he's getting famous.

Though there's an interesting story spun about how Candyman is not just one person but many, and that they are born from black trauma, it's just a sidenote to a bunch of crazy nonsense. The culmination of the film has Anthony morphing into the latest iteration of Candyman and it's all kinds of stupid. There's not a moment of scary in this whole thing. The only reason it's not an "F" is because of the very cool paper puppets utilized in some of the storytelling.

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