Production designer Cara Bower had a big world to create with “Candyman.” There is the city of Chicago, of course, but also the art world and the mythology surrounding the titular character.
Director Nia DaCosta’s sequel is a fairly intimate psychological horror movie, too, so Bower had to communicate its themes in environments ranging from the realistic to the stylized.
For the most part, though, Bower and DaCosta wanted to show the real Chicago, while also taking inspiration from a greatest hits list of heightened horror films.”Candyman” isn’t Bower’s first entry in horror.
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