First ‘Candyman’ Trailer Terrifying A Whole New Generation Of Chicagoans

By Meha Ahmad, Stephanie Kim
First ‘Candyman’ Trailer Terrifying A Whole New Generation Of Chicagoans
A March 22, 1981, file photo of the Cabrini-Green public housing project. Cabrini-Green is the setting of the original 1992 "Candyman" movie and of the new reboot coming out in June 2020. Jim Bourdier / AP Photo
First ‘Candyman’ Trailer Terrifying A Whole New Generation Of Chicagoans
A March 22, 1981, file photo of the Cabrini-Green public housing project. Cabrini-Green is the setting of the original 1992 "Candyman" movie and of the new reboot coming out in June 2020. Jim Bourdier / AP Photo

First ‘Candyman’ Trailer Terrifying A Whole New Generation Of Chicagoans

By Meha Ahmad, Stephanie Kim
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The first trailer for Nia DaCosta’s reboot of the 1992 horror film Candyman dropped this week, and it already has people refusing to look in the mirror. 

Reset talks about reactions to the trailer, and the city of Chicago as a character in the films.

GUESTS: Arionne Nettles, journalist, lecturer at Northwestern University

Tanikia Carpenter, actress, writer and creator of Sunday School Productions and Black Owned Chicago