Film Review: “Candyman” (2021)

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Chris Salazar
5 min readAug 28, 2021

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Yahya Abdul-Mateen II in Candyman (2021)

When I was in the fifth grade, I went through a major horror phase that started with watching Freddy vs. Jason on HBO. I soon moved on from Freddy and Jason to Ghostface from Scream, Michael Meyers, and all of the other slashers that the horror genre had to offer. At the time, however, not very many horror villains had as much to say Tony Todd’s titular Candyman did in the 1992 horror…

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Chris Salazar

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