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With Jordan Peele • Nia DaCosta • Colman Domingo • Yahya Abdul-Mateen II • Vanessa Williams • Tony Todd • Teyonah Parris • Ian Cooper • Win Rosenfeld • Nathan Stewart-Jarrett • Rebecca Spence • Christiana Clark • Brian King • Kyle Kaminsky • Carl Clemons-Hopkins • Cedric Mays • Miriam Moss • Rodney L Jones III
For as long as residents can remember, the housing projects of Chicago’s Cabrini-Green neighborhood were terrorized by a word-of-mouth ghost story about a supernatural killer with a hook for a hand, easily summoned by those daring to repeat his name five times into a mirror. In present day, a decade after the last of the Cabrini towers were torn down, visual artist Anthony McCoy and his partner, gallery director Brianna Cartwright , move into a luxury loft condo in Cabrini, now gentrified beyond recognition and inhabited by upwardly mobile millennials. With Anthony’s painting career on the brink of stalling, a chance encounter with a Cabrini-Green old-timer exposes Anthony to the tragically horrific nature of the true story behind Candyman. Anxious to maintain his status in the Chicago art world, Anthony begins to explore these macabre details in his studio as fresh grist for paintings, unknowingly opening a door to a complex past that unravels his own sanity and unleashes a terrifyingly viral wave of violence that puts him on a collision course with destiny.
- 3.44 / 5.0
With Josh Eisenberg • Richard Wagner • Paul Statman • Jennifer Churchich • Angela Nicholas • Hamilton Matthews • Whitney Nielsen • Vadym Krasnenko • Nicole Krasnenko • Peter Sefchik
Josh Riverton spent 10 years working for a global chemical behemoth, notorious for their environmental dumping. When his daughter becomes ill, Josh is convinced the company is to blame. A confrontation with his boss, Woeland, turns violent, forcing Josh to take him hostage. As Josh holds him captive, he begins losing grasp on reality. Is Woeland more than he seems, or is it all in Josh's head?
- 3 / 5.0