Well I can't say I am that surprised that this book was crap. First of all, remakes seldom work (although this one is more a continuation) of some sorts. When the franchise is done I never saw a remake being made and being good. The only one I think it work was Halloween which the new movies are okish. Well, abou this one - well it's woke crap as almost everything being performed nowadays. But this one is stupid woke crap. So you got this artist who is dire need of ideas for creating new art and inspires on Candyman stories. So far so good. But afterwards everything went down the hill. So he killed people, some innocent some were not but the last monologue feels like "You are not innocent". Damn...
So what it's woke? Well there are gay characters who have no importance to the stories are were created just to be there and be inclusive - gay black characters with white characters. So you already tick two boxes.
Then the gay black character and his family complain about white people having to capitalize on black communities while building very good communities on which the white guy say - like this one you are living? Damn - Awkward silence...
Then there are some other woke elements, like police = bad; black people = good and marginalized even in 2021 and so on...
The story is so crap because it try to capitalize on woke elements and never really going onward on the plot and horror. There are some killing but almost all of them are off-screen just watching glimpses of blood and such. CRAPPY movie. Unless you are a woke person don't watch it. Go watch the original (that it's crap but compare with this is golden) with Virginia Madsen. What a gal!
PS: This is nothing to do of being black characters. Our female main character was a good one. The rest are just crap.
1 out of 10 stars