After a series of delays, Nia DaCosta's Candyman reboot (though we're hearing it will actually serve as more of a sequel) is set to hit theatres later this month, and a bloody first clip from the movie is now online.
In this sneak peek, we drop in on a very familiar situation, as a group of girls dare each other to say "Candyman" in the mirror five times. One thinks better of it, but the others complete the ritual as the urban legend dictates, and pay the price.
Unable to escape the bathroom, the teens begin to fall victim to the hook-handed demon while their friends look on in terror.
Check out the clip below along with a new international poster, and let us know if you plan on seeing Candyman next week.
"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 (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II; HBO’s Watchmen, Us) and his partner, gallery director Brianna Cartwright (Teyonah Parris; If Beale Street Could Talk, The Photograph), 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 (Colman Domingo; HBO’s Euphoria, Assassination Nation) 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 terrifying wave of violence that puts him on a collision course with destiny."
Candyman is set to hit theaters on August 27.
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