The “spiritual sequel” to the 1992 film takes a dramatic turn in its final act \u2013\u00a0read on for everything you need to know. <\/p>
The brand new Candyman<\/a> film has finally<\/em> opened in cinemas after several COVID-related delays, and fans of the 1992 version of the film can expect plenty of references to the original movie.<\/p>\n Billed as a \u201cspiritual sequel\u201d to Bernard Rose\u2019s film, the follow-up continues the story from the perspective of visual artist Anthony, while also slightly reinventing the mythology for the modern era.<\/p>\n Towards the end of its runtime, the film goes in some pretty wild directions \u2013 if you\u2019ve watched it and need a little help unpacking, then read on to have the Candyman ending explained.<\/p>\n It goes without saying the following article contains major spoilers for Candyman<\/strong>, so proceed with caution.<\/p> Towards the end of the movie, Anthony discovers that his mother has lied to him about his birthplace \u2013 and when he confronts her about it she reveals a secret: he was the baby that was saved from the Candyman by Helen Lyle all those years ago.<\/p>\n Of course, while that is a big reveal for Anthony himself, it won\u2019t come as much of a surprise for viewers, given that Universal had made no secret about Anthony\u2019s identity prior to the release, and moreover that he has the same name as the baby from the original film.<\/p>\n But what follows is much more shocking. As Anthony has continued to research the Candyman legend, he has slowly been losing his mind \u2013 and the bee sting he suffered after his first encounter with Colman Domingo\u2019s William Burke has also developed what looks like rather a nasty infection.<\/p>\n After Anthony\u2019s visit to his mother, he goes missing, and Brianna\u2019s attempts to find him in Cabrini-Green only lead to her being kidnapped by Burke, who then proceeds to take her to an abandoned church.<\/p>\n Here we find Anthony tied up and in a trance, and Burke reveals his plan: he reckons Cabrini-Green needs <\/em>the Candyman in order to stave off the continued gentrification, and that Anthony is a perfect person to frame given the \u201cperfect symmetry\u201d of him being the same child taken by the Candyman back in the first film.<\/p>\n\n And so with Brianna watching, Burke proceeds to saw off Anthony\u2019s hand and replace it with Candyman\u2019s iconic hook, before calling the police \u2013 presuming that when they arrive they will kill Anthony, believing him responsible for the recent spate of murders, and thus creating a brand new Candyman.<\/p>\n Brianna fights back and is able to kill Burke, but she isn\u2019t able to stop the police from arriving, and when they do they predictably shoot Anthony dead while also arresting her. In a cop car they then try to coerce her into parroting their version of events so as to escape scrutiny, but Brianna has other ideas.<\/p>\n Looking at the rear-view mirror she says Candyman five times in order to summon him \u2013 and when she does so Anthony appears, surrounded by the Candyman\u2019s trademark bees, and brutally kills each of the cops.<\/p>\n But then, when Brianna follows Anthony, he turns around and she sees not her late boyfriend but the original Candyman: Daniel Robitaille, played by Tony Todd. He then whispers \u201ctell everyone\u201d before the credits roll.<\/p>\n The film had been clear from early on that Candyman is not one man, but a group of Black men who had been wrongly killed and unwillingly made martyrs, and Anthony\u2019s death makes him the latest in a long line of Candymen.<\/p>\n In instructing Brianna to \u201ctell everyone\u201d the Candyman is trying to keep the legend alive \u2013 and attempting to ensure that the stories of all the Candymen are truthfully told going forwards.<\/p>\n The “spiritual sequel” to the 1992 film takes a dramatic turn in its final act \u2013\u00a0read on for everything you need to know. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":3651,"template":"","categories":[1],"acf":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/08\/candyman-ending-explained-what-happened-to-anthony.png",1920,800,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/08\/candyman-ending-explained-what-happened-to-anthony-150x150.png",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/08\/candyman-ending-explained-what-happened-to-anthony-300x125.png",300,125,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/08\/candyman-ending-explained-what-happened-to-anthony-768x320.png",768,320,true],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/08\/candyman-ending-explained-what-happened-to-anthony-1024x427.png",800,334,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/08\/candyman-ending-explained-what-happened-to-anthony-1536x640.png",1536,640,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/08\/candyman-ending-explained-what-happened-to-anthony.png",1920,800,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"The \"spiritual sequel\" to the 1992 film takes a dramatic turn in its final act \u2013\u00a0read on for everything you need to know.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/3650"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Candyman ending explained<\/h2>\n
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