Review of Candyman (2021) by Entitet — 21 Sep 2021

It's pretty clear by now that Jordan Peele have a gigantic chip on his shoulder when it comes to white people (which is kinda funny since he's half white) and he's never subtle with his feelings in his movies. In Candyman it's more blatant than ever; all white people (and white cops) are cruel, stupid, mean and evil, so kill all the white people!

I don't know if Peele gets off on being "provocative" in his blatant unwitty ways and goes "Haha! Look at all these b*tthurt angry racists react!" - but either way, it's not clever and it's probably more counterproductive than helpful. His "anti racism" is equivalent to pushing a dogs face in filth, until the dog, one day, bites back. It's fueling dislike, hate and anger in both ways, instead of handling problems and bringing people together.

But besides this, Candyman is a strange "horror" movie. The fact that the director chose to play down and make most of the killings happen off screen, makes it play out more like a quite boring flatlining tv drama, instead of an intense horror movie and the story isn't intriguing or good enough to stand on it's own legs, without the "flavour" of gore and suspense.

The acting and cinematography was pretty decent tho and kudos for not using tons of jump scares ...but not kudos for removing scares totally.