You Have to Say Candyman 5 Times to Watch the Chilling New Trailer — Do You Dare?

A new trailer for Nia DaCosta's Candyman is out, and it's guaranteed to haunt your dreams. The film, which is being described as a "spiritual" sequel to the first Candyman, follows Watchmen's Yahya Abdul-Mateen II as an artist named Anthony McCoy. Written by Jordan Peele and Win Rosenfeld, the movie returns to the original's now-gentrified neighborhood as Anthony and his girlfriend, Brianna Cartwright (Marvel's Teyonah Parris), move in years after the events of the first film. Though his partner isn't a fan of the grisly urban legend of Candyman, Anthony is obviously into the killer's tall tale — which inevitably leads to him daring someone else to utter the cursed name five times. To view the latest Candyman trailer, fans must go to IDareYou.CandymanMovie.com and say his name five times into the microphone while bees buzz loudly in the background.

For anyone not willing to risk saying his name aloud, a previously released trailer from June 2020 gives more backstory on the infamous Candyman as it uses shadow puppets to tell well-known stories of Black men and their murders. Two of the vignettes play out the real-life lynching of James Byrd Jr. in 1998 and the execution of 14-year-old George Stinney Jr. in 1944. Another depicts the story of the Candyman as told in the 1992 supernatural horror film, inspired by characters from Clive Barker's 1985 short story, The Forbidden. A Black artist, Daniel Robitaille, who was hired to paint a portrait of a wealthy white man's daughter, was lynched when it was discovered that he had fallen in love with her. A mob cut off his hand, replaced it with a hook, and spread honey on him so bees would sting him as he was burned alive.

All the vignettes are tied together by a painter who is shown creating portraits of Black people after they've been murdered, and we see him surrounded by the paintings of both fictional and real victims of white violence. If you're even a tad squeamish, this is not the horror flick for you. The cast features plenty of familiar faces including Misfits' Nathan Stewart-Jarrett, Selma's Colman Domingo, and the original Candyman himself, Tony Todd. Watch the eerie trailers ahead, and get ready to be spooked when Candyman slinks into theaters on Aug. 27.