In June, Candyman director Nia DaCosta unveiled a concept trailer that showed the origin of Candyman through shadow puppets.
The horror that the Candyman underwent is what turned him into a vengeful demon.
The people they were, the symbols we turn them into, the monsters we are told they must have been.”
With DaCosta’s tweet of the trailer, she also included this message, “CANDYMAN, at the intersection of white violence and black pain, is about unwilling martyrs.