History YMMV / Candyman2021

* HilariousInHindsight: Brianna's GenreSavvy moment becomes this considering producer Creator/JordanPeele takes the gag up to eleven in [[Film/{{Nope}} his next project.]]

* TearJerker:
** Anthony's manipulation at the hands of [[spoiler: Burke]], ending in [[spoiler: his mutilation, death, and ultimate assimilation into the Candyman legend.]]
** Sherman Fields's death at the beginning of the film, and the unwitting role that [[UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom Burke]] plays in it.
** The fact that Helen Lyle, a good, well-intentioned woman who saved Anthony's life at the cost of her own, has been villainized by time and myth, to the point that Troy believes that she was a multiple murderess and kidnapper.
*** This TearJerker also applies to the original film, given that Helen becomes a murderous spirit at the end.
*** Not even Anne-Marie's realization of her innocence wasn't big enough of an impact to redeem Helen's image despite being the one who first WronglyAccused her for Anthony's kidnapping [[UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom that started all to begin with]].
*** Similarly, Helen's actions were AllForNothing. [[spoiler: Her HeroicSacrifice becomes a SenselessSacrifice with Anthony becoming a Candyman in the end.]]
** The various acts of racial violence that have fueled the Candyman legend, including Daniel Robitaille, whose death is described in disgusting detail. Even Burke tears up when he's describing it to Anthony.
** The end credits are very somber, portraying real cases of hate crimes and racial violence with shadow puppets as it shows the origins of each "Candyman":
*** The first puppet potrays the murder of Anthony Crawford. A wealthy South Carolina farmer in post-Civil War America, who got into an argument with a store owner over the price of seed he was trying to sell. While leaving the store, Anthony was attacked, but managed to escape. However, a lynch mob soon gathered (many people hated him for his race, wealth, prideful attitude or a combination of the three) and attacked him at his cotton mill, killing him with a knife and taking his corpse to a fairground where his body was destroyed by the mob who used it for target practice.
*** The second depicts the wrongful conviction and execution of George Stinney Jr. A 14-year-old boy who was arrested in 1944 for the murders of two white girls aged 11 and 7. He was given an unfair trial and executed in the electric chair. Stinney is the youngest American to be sentenced to death in the 20th century. In 2014, he was declared innocent due to the unfair trial he received.
*** The third shows the lynching of James Byrd Jr. A vacuum cleaner salesman who was beaten and murdered when three white supremacists tied him up, hooked him to the back of a truck and dragged him for over three miles. Two of the supremacists were later executed for the crime, while the third received a life sentence.

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* AlternateCharacterInterpretation.

* AuthorsSavingThrow: The reveal of Candyman's true nature. Purcell's exposition in the first movie stated that the Candyman died at Cabrini Green, which is in Chicago; however, the sequel then established that Daniel really lived and died in New Orleans. With the reveal that there is a whole league or "hive" of them with the original Candyman (Daniel Robitaille) as their 'Queen Bee' as it were, and ''a'' Candyman died in Chicago, so both places of death are technically correct!

** Does Candyman recruit the souls of those who die unjust deaths, or does he enslave them? See TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot for more.

* HilariousInHindsight: Brianna's GenreSavvy moment becomes this considering producer Creator/JordanPeele takes the gag UpToEleven in [[Film/{{Nope}} his next project.]]

* SugarWiki/VisualEffectsOfAwesome: Considering the film's relatively low budget of $25 million [[spoiler: Tony Todd's appearance at the end of the film is ''astounding'', completely surpassing the UncannyValley that comes with the territory of DigitalDeaging.]]

* HilariousInHindsight: Brianna's GenreSavvy moment becomes this considering producer Creator/JordanPeele takes the gag UpToEleven in [[Film/{{Nope}} his project following this film.