In 2011, the last remaining high-rise in the Cabrini-Green housing project was demolished. Over the years, the property--which opened in 1942--gained a notorious reputation around the world for being a haven for violence, drugs, gangs, and other criminal activities. While the project's real-life history weaves its way into the narrative of Candyman, it only makes sense that Bernard Rose would want to shoot there. Which he did. But in order to gain permission to shoot there, he had to agree to cast some of the residents as extras. "I went to Chicago on a research trip to see where it could be done and I was shown around by some people from the Illinois Film Commission and they took me to Cabrini-Green," Rose said. "And I spent some time there and I realized that this was an incredible arena for a horror movie because it was a place of such palpable fear. And rule number one when you're making a horror movie is set it somewhere frightening. And the fear of the urban housing project, it seemed to me, was actually totally irrational because you couldn't really be in that much danger. Yes, there was crime there, but people were actually afraid of driving past it. And there was such an aura of fear around the place and I thought that was really something interesting to look into because it's sort of a kind of fear that's at the heart of modern cities. And obviously, it's racially motivated, but more than that--it's poverty motivated."

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