I am a fan of the original 'Candyman’ (1993), so I sat down last night to watch this 2021 remake…
Well…when I sit down to watch a film, I expect to be entertained - not to be lectured to by a Director (Jordan Peele) who thinks that all the World’s woes are purely down to the ‘White Race’.
This film starts off pretty well, and seems quite promising…we have the obligatory Gay characters, so a box ticked there…I have no problem with that, despite the undeniable fact that it a ‘woke’ statement in the present day, added to appease a small minority.
As for ticking boxes, I don’t recall seeing any disabled characters, but I may have missed that one - Oh, of course, ‘Candyman’ himself, with a hook for a hand…silly me.
But then… we have the anti-white propaganda kick in big time, and I do mean ‘Big Time’.
Nasty white people are portrayed as racist, greedy, self-seeking, bullying scum of the earth.
The white police in this ‘hate leaflet’ posing as entertainment, are quite clearly fascists, with no redeeming features, and don’t hesitate when it comes to using their bare hands and feet to punch and kick an ‘innocent’ black man to death…sound familiar?
Later on, another black man is lying defenceless on the ground, and white police shoot him to death for no apparent reason other than the fact that they like doing that sort of thing…are you getting the picture?
Candyman’s victims - unless I’m mistaken - are all white folk; while the woes of the black neighbourhood (housing etc) are ‘simply’ the result of the ‘superior white race’ caring more about making a profit than the lives of ‘down-trodden’ poor people…the list of grievances and rants goes on and on…
For example: One black character comments: [on racial violence ] “Candyman is a way to deal with the fact that these things happened to us, are still happening!”
Another black character, a misunderstood artist, paints and displays a picture of a black face being beaten to death by a sea of white hands…
To sum up: Last night I really fancied a good horror movie - not to be at a seminar/sermon, where every opportunity possible was used (manufactured?), by the film-makers to air their grievances.
As far as I’m concerned, film-makers (of any colour, class, back-ground or upbringing) should keep their hidden (in this case, not so much hidden, as thrust in the viewers face!) agenda and political beliefs to themselves.
The film-makers of this ‘Candyman’ adaption, appear to have not only chips on their shoulders, but bloody big pieces of battered cod too…
They have across as being holier than thou, whilst preaching about the evils of racism…
Unfortunately, and to their detriment, the ‘Candyman’ film-makers have shown that they are as ‘blinkered’ as the next person. They are blissfully unaware of their own arrogant righteousness, unconcealed racism and bias, by attempting to suggest that such an abhorrent vice such as racism is, and has always been, one-sided - and that there is one skin colour, in particular, which is wholly and solely responsible for such a narrow-minded view…
No prizes for guessing which colour that is…
‘Candyman’ (2021)…What a wasted opportunity…a film that had so much potential, which was then hijacked by people with a bone to pick… 
