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Nia DaCosta’s Candyman receives an R rating for “bloody horror violence”

July 23, 2020 by Liam Waddington

While this may not be as much as a surprise, Nia DaCosta’s Candyman has received an R rating ahead of its release later this year.

Recently reported by Bloody Disgusting, Candyman has earned its R rating for “bloody horror violence, and language including some sexual references.”

Unfortunately, audiences are going to have to wait slightly longer to watch the reboot of the 1992 horror classic as earlier this month, Universal Pictures once again delayed the release date from September 25th, 2020 to October 16th, 2020.

Candyman is directed by Nia DaCosta and produced by Get Out and Us director Jordan Peele. The film features a cast that includes Yahya Abdul-Mateen II (HBO’s Watchmen), Teyonah Parris (If Beale Street Could Talk), Colman Domingo (Fear the Walking Dead), Rebecca Spence (Public Enemies), Cassie Kramer (Bimbo) and Nathan Stewart-Jarrett (Misfits), while Tony Todd is thought to be reprising his role as the titular boogeyman from the original series of slasher films.

Are you looking forward to Nia DaCosta’s Candyman? Let us know in the comments below or tweet us @flickeringmyth…

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 girlfriend, 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 terrifyingly viral wave of violence that puts him on a collision course with destiny.

 

Filed Under: Liam Waddington, Movies, News Tagged With: Candyman

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