“I think I made a mistake. I brought him back.”

MGM will bring a horror icon back to life on June 12, 2020 with the release of director Nia DaCosta‘s (Little Woods) Candyman, a “spiritual sequel” to the original classic from 1992.

From producer Jordan Peele, who also co-wrote the film with Win Rosenfeld, this year’s Candyman has finally received its first official trailer today, and you’ll find that down below.

The trailer begins with a brief recap of the franchise’s mythology and then gives us a taste of the Candyman’s wrath before getting to the meat of the new story. It looks like Yahya Abdul-Mateen II (Us, Aquaman) plays an artist who’s looking to uncover the truth about Candyman and tell his story to the world. In the process, he’s starting to *become* the legend.

Unless I’m misreading the trailer completely, it seems DaCosta’s Candyman is something of a body-horror film, quite literally documenting the creation of a new Candyman. The original Candyman, of course played by Tony Todd, doesn’t actually appear in the trailer (or does he?), but the premise of the movie would seem to allow for at least some kind of cameo.

Check out the official trailer below!

“For as long as residents can remember, the housing projects of Chicago’s Cabrini Green neighborhood were terrorized by a word-of-mouth ghost story about a supernatural killer with a hook for a hand, easily summoned by those daring to repeat his name five times into a mirror. In present day, a decade after the last of the Cabrini towers were torn down, visual artist Anthony McCoy (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II) and his girlfriend, gallery director Brianna Cartwright (Teyonah Parris), move into a luxury loft condo in Cabrini, now gentrified beyond recognition and inhabited by upwardly mobile millennials.”

“With Anthony’s painting career on the brink of stalling, a chance encounter with a Cabrini Green old-timer (Colman Domingo) exposes Anthony to the tragically horrific nature of the true story behind Candyman. Anxious to maintain his status in the Chicago art world, Anthony begins to explore these macabre details in his studio as fresh grist for paintings, unknowingly opening a door to a complex past that unravels his own sanity and unleashes a terrifyingly viral wave of violence that puts him on a collision course with destiny.”

Alongside Peele, Win Rosenfeld and Ian Cooper produced for Monkeypaw Productions.