Candyman has so much potential. I think you’d be able to do a sort of combo/half and half house with the original because of the ties the new film has to the original. Some locations….
Via the original:
Cabrini green
The apartment that leads to the candyman mural
The parking garage
The mental hospital
Anne-Marie’s apartment
Candyman’s lair (where the mural is)
Bon fire scene
Helen’s apartment where her ghost appears to her ex husband
The new film played with mirrors/reflections and that could be so cool! Kind of like Us did with the funhouse mirrors. The could do stuff with the shadow puppetry as the theme plays in the background and like people come out from behind the wall (thinking a sort of split screen effect like Hollywood’s universal monster mazes have). The film also plays with the idea/concept of liminal spaces (at least in my opinion) and that could be really cool.
I think candyman has a lot of potential. It could be pretty, scary, hypnotic, and really powerful.
