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Hi everyone, BEST MOVIE REVIEW here.

Today’s movie is “Candyman” 2021.

Spoilers ahead.

1977 – In the Cabrini-Green projects, a young boy is told

by his mother to do laundry.

When he goes to the laundry room, he passes some police officers.

While alone in the room, the boy hears a man humming and then watches

as the man emerges from a hole in the wall with a hook for a hand.

The boy screams, and the police rush inside.

Present Day: Cabrini-Green has now become gentrified.

Troy Cartwright is bringing his boyfriend Grady Greenberg to meet

Troy’s sister Brianna and her boyfriend Anthony McCoy in their new apartment.

While there, they discuss the urban legends from the area, including

one of a woman named Helen Lyle.

She was a student looking for a story of what happened in Cabrini-Green.

Still, she went crazy and kidnapped a baby before a mob took the baby

back, and Helen walked into a large bonfire and burned to death.

Anthony later looks up info on what Troy was talking about.

While out the next day, Anthony meets William Burke, who tells him

how Cabrini-Green didn’t use to have such a large police presence until

more white people started moving in.

Burke tells Anthony about the neighborhood’s legend of

Candyman, a figure of terror.

For Burke, he was introduced to Candyman as a child.

In the opening scene, he was the boy as he knew a man named Sherman

Fields, a local who had a hook hand and would give kids candy.

Sherman was the prime suspect when a little white girl found a razor

blade in her Halloween candy.

Burke unwittingly let the police see Sherman after he screamed.

The police brutally beat Sherman to death until he was unrecognizable.

When more razor blades showed up in candy, later on, people realized

that Sherman was innocent too late.

The legend states that if one looks in the mirror and says

Candyman’s name five times, he will appear and claim his victim.

Anthony takes some photos in the area and is stung in his right hand by a bee.

Anthony works as an artist and has a display at a gallery where Brianna works.

The display is a mirror where onlookers are dared to stare at their reflections

and speak Candyman’s name five times.

Anthony meets critic Finley Stephens, who criticizes him and

other artists for trying to have an outspoken view of societal issues.

Annoyed, Anthony flips out at an attendee who asks him a patronizing question

before snapping at Brianna’s coworkers Clive Privler and Jerrica Cooper, the

former stating that Anthony only got into the gallery because of Brianna.

Still, Anthony manages to get a diss in at Clive before leaving.

Brianna tries to comfort Anthony at home.

Meanwhile, Clive and Jerrica try to hook up at the gallery after closing.

They stand in front of the mirror, and Jerrica playfully

says “Candyman” five times.

After a few seconds, Candyman appears in the reflection

and slashes Jerrica’s throat.

Clive sees Candyman in the shadows getting closer to him, but even though he tries

to run, Clive is slashed to death and has his corpse laid next to Jerrica.

Brianna later finds Clive and Jerrica’s bodies the next morning.

This triggers a flashback to when she was a child and witnessed her father

jump out the window to his death.

When the news reports that their bodies were found in front of Anthony’s

display, he has a dazed milky look in his eyes before simply stating that

he’s happy he got mentioned, which both Brianna and Troy and disgusted by.

The bee sting on Anthony’s hand grows more rotted over time,

requiring him to use a bandage.

He later goes for an interview at Finley’s home, where he

discusses his feelings about the gentrification in the area and overall.

He dares Finley to say Candyman’s name.

As she goes to the bathroom, Anthony is drawn outside the apartment.

He looks in the mirror and appears to see Candyman as his reflection, his

hook right where Anthony’s hand is.

Anthony leaves, and we see the invisible spirit of Candyman attack Finley in

the bathroom, slashing her throat and dragging her face across the window.

Anthony starts to do more research on Candyman and Helen Lyle.

At the library, he goes over recordings that Helenleft, detailing what she saw

and learned while in Cabrini-Green.

While in the elevator, Anthony considers a piece of candy drop to the

floor, but he cuts his finger on it because there is a razor blade inside.

He is spooked by the image of Candyman again before he flees.

Anthony revisits Burke, where Anthony talks about how he sees Candyman’s

victims and reflects them in his art.

Burke explains that Candyman represents many victims of racial injustice.

Still, the earliest example goes back to the late 1800s, where a black

man named Daniel Robitaille worked as an artist for a white family.

He and the eldest daughter fell in love with each other.

After she got pregnant, her father found out.

He sent a mob after Robitaille, leading to them torturing him, severing his

hand, covering him in honey to attract bees, and finally set him on fire.

Brianna sees Anthony’s paintings and expresses concerns for his sanity.

Anthony smashes the mirrors when she tries to say Candyman’s name, driving

her away to stay with Troy and Grady.

Elsewhere at a prep school, a group of teenage girls gathers in the bathroom

to say Candyman’s name after one of them saw Anthony’s display at the gallery.

One of them flees before it’s done, and another girl sits

in a stall while this goes on.

After nothing happens, the girls try to leave the bathroom,

but the door is locked.

One of the girls goes back to the mirror, and the others only hear the sounds of

Candyman’s hook digging into her flesh.

The girl in the stall can only watch through a reflection in a

small mirror the vague imagery of her classmates being slaughtered.

With his body and mind continuing to erode, Anthony

visits his mother, Anne-Marie.

He starts to bring up Candyman and what he learned about Cabrini-Green.

He realizes he is the baby that was taken decades earlier.

Still, Anne-Marie explains that while she believed Helen did kidnap him, she was

saving him from Candyman, as he had picked Anthony specifically for a dark purpose.

Anthony leaves, feeling that his mother lied and kept things from him.

When Anthony and Brianna appear ready to reconcile, they

are both captured by Burke.

He takes them to a rundown church, where he calls the police

and feigns a distress call.

Burke views Candyman as a symbol against racial oppression and knows Anthony,

whose body is half-decayed, is set to join Daniel Robitaille and Sherman

Fields as the new embodiment of Candyman.

Burke saws off Anthony’s right hand and places the hook there.

Brianna frees herself just as the police start to arrive.

Although Burke pursues her, Brianna stabs him to death with a pen.

Anthony falls into her arms as he is weakened.

The police burst in and shot him dead.

Brianna is taken into police custody by some dirty cops.

The lead officer tries to get her to spin the story either to make Anthony

the sole culprit of the murders, or make her look like an accomplice.

Knowing what the cops are trying to do, Brianna asks to look at

herself in the mirror in exchange for saying whatever the cops want.

She summons Candyman, and an officer emerges from the

building with his throat slashed.

Anthony is now the spirit of Candyman, and he proceeds to kill the other officers.

The lead cop runs out as Anthony follows.

Brianna exits the car and witnesses Anthony kill the cop.

A swarm of bees consumes Anthony, and he takes the form of Robitaille.

As more police start arriving, Robitaille has one request

for Brianna: “Tell everyone.”

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