Jordan Peele’s ‘Candyman’ to Compete for Best Original Score at Oscars

Co-written and produced by Jordan Peele, Candyman competes for ‘Best Original Score’ at the 2022 Oscars. It made it an exceptional and rare horror film to be nominated within its category.

For our horror film and Jordan Peele enthusiasts, Candyman is set to compete in the 2022 Oscars nominee category for Best Score as composer and producer, Audrey Lowe graciously provided audience members a gripping and chilling score that sent us chills during the movie’s release in 2021.

As mentioned in Variety, “Lowe actually lived within a few blocks of Chicago’s Cabrini-Green housing project while in his 20s, and he returned to those now-abandoned row houses that are the focus of the film to capture the sounds of the place. He recorded “the wind rushing through the buildings, the creaking of doors, [sounds inside] old electrical boxes, insects around.”

Lowe continues, “Also, I prompted some of the actors to say certain words or phrases into the recorder. Then I took those words and phrases and granularly processed them down to where they were no longer understood as a word or voice, and used those as textural elements within the score.”

Impressively Lowe provided the film’s score with a touch of naturalism into the modern world; with the use of its sounds, depictions, and Erie auditory senses, it unlocks our 6th sense and does trigger us to shudder graciously. Through the films’ build-up within its anticipation and intense monologue, it’s a wonder how Peele’s mastery continues to shock us with awe.

The film questions our psychological state while connecting us entirely to Chicago’s Cabrini-Green. Through these historical roots and our ignorance of looking into our deceiving reflection. The movie’s original score quite remarkably enhances it, deeming to be our cherry on top of it all. Because of this, Audrey Lowe’s touch and musical creativity have left us gripping our seats and avoiding our reflections as movie lovers and horror movie fanatics.

Lowe used various modern techniques to create an unsettling mood of dread and accentuated the feeling of suffering, loss, and vulnerability, reflecting the film’s visual cues and symbolic nature of our favorite ghost story tale.

— But, he notes, “without providing any emotional bias. If you lay it on too thick it becomes coy. I like the idea of playing with illusion, something that factors quite heavily into this film — this concept of reflection, illusion, reality versus fantasy.”

Candyman, released August 27, 2021, focuses on the housing projects of Chicago’s Cabrini-Green that were terrorized by a ghost story about a supernatural, hook-handed killer. Leading an artist to begin exploring the spine-chilling history of Candyman, not knowing it would unravel his sanity and unleash a terrifying wave of violence that puts him on a collision course with destiny.

Alike the movie, we’re sure,

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Will be all the buzz this 2022 Oscar Nominee year.