The Whorrors‪!‬ Elyse Rose & Shay Gilly

Mirror mirror on the wall, which version of Candyman will be my downfall?  Our 2nd installment of Take 2 June is taking us to the other side of the medicine cabinet as we revisit Cabrini Green in 2021’s Candyman.



***CONTENT WARNING: discussions of racial violence, police brutality, suicide



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Sources: 


Candyman 2021 IMDB https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9347730/trivia/


Candyman 2021 Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candyman_(2021_film)


How “Candyman” Fails Black Women and Femmes by Jessica Lanay : https://electricliterature.com/how-candyman-fails-black-women-and-femmes/


Nia DaCosta Breaks Down the Silhouette Stories from 'Candyman' by Alyssa Miller: https://nofilmschool.com/dacosta-breaks-down-candyman-shadow-puppetry


They Came in Through the Bathroom Mirror: A Murder in the Projects by Steve Bogira: https://chicagoreader.com/news-politics/they-came-in-through-the-bathroom-mirror/

For Shay’s birthday episode, we’re taking a trip back down Elm Street to swoon over Kyle Gallner and meet Freddy’s new face in 2010’s A Nightmare on Elm Street.  



***CONTENT WARNING: discussions of childhood sexual abuse, sexual assault, suicide, self-harm



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Sources: 


ANOES 2010 IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1179056/trivia/


ANOES 2010 Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Nightmare_on_Elm_Street_(2010_film)


Christensen, Kyle. “‘Look What You Did to Me!’: (Anti)Feminism and Extratextuality in the Remake of A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010).” Journal of Film and Video, vol. 68, no. 2, 2016, pp. 29–45. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.5406/jfilmvideo.68.2.0029. Accessed 12 Apr. 2024


Pied Piper wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pied_Piper_of_Hamelin


Robert Englund: an Exclusive Interview by Aaron Williams: https://www.comingsoon.net/horror/news/725682-robert-englund-an-exclusive-interview

We’re covering two movies with “man” in the title, but DON’T BE FRIGHTENED - there’s lots of ladies committing trickery in the folk horror flick, The Wicker Man (1973 & 2006).



***CONTENT WARNING: discussion of sexual assault, spoilers for Midsommar



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Sources: 


Campbell, Dr. Danny. “Weekly Sermons: The Unholy Trinity.” The Tabernacle Family. The Tabernacle, 2022. https://www.thetabernaclefamily.org/tabernacle-sermons/weekly-sermons/sermon/650-the-unholy-trinity. Accessed December 2022. Web. 


Chambers, Jamie. "Troubling Folk Horror: Exoticism, Metonymy, and Solipsism in the "Unholy Trinity" and Beyond." JCMS: Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, vol. 61 no. 2, 2022, p. 9-34. Project MUSE, doi:10.1353/cj.2022.0014. Accessed December 2022.


“Constructing The Wicker Man: Film and Cultural Studies Perspectives.”Offscreen.com. https://offscreen.com/view/wicker_man#:~:text=Ashurst's%20essay%20demonstrates%20how%20The,the%20usual%20male%2Ddriven%20narrative.


Poole, W. Scott. “Monstrous Beginnings.” Monsters in America: Our Historical Obsessions with the Hideous and the Haunting. 2nd edition. Waco, Texas: Baylor University Press, 2018. Print.


The Wicker Man (1973) Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wicker_Man 


The Wicker Man (1973) IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070917/ 


The Wicker Man (2006) Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wicker_Man_(2006_film) 


The Wicker Man (2006) IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0450345/ 

This is not a test.

This is your emergency broadcast system announcing the commencement of The Whorrors!’s coverage of The Purge (2013). Commencing at the siren, any and all crime, including murder, will be legal for 12 continuous hours. Listen in to hear about this hellish nation reborn.



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Sources:


McClendon, Blair. “The ‘Purge’ Films Reveal the Ugly Truth About America.” NYTimes.com. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/27/magazine/the-purge-movies.html
The Purge Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Purge_(2013_film)
The Purge IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2184339/?ref_=ttpl_ov

It’s Elyse’s birthday!  As a treat for our historical context giving, period piece adoring, and literary loving host, we present you something campy that has it all: 2016’s Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.



***CONTENT WARNING: discussions of enslavement



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Sources: 


Baiesi, Serena.  “Remediating Jane Austen through the Gothic: ‘Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.’” 2017. https://hdl.handle.net/1889/5045. Accessed 29 March 2024. Web.  


Miquel-Baldellou, Marta. “‘As Soon As Ever She Died, the Hauntings Began’: Revisiting the Victorian Fallen Woman as a Gothic Archetype in Susan Hill’s The Woman in Black." Ex-centric Narratives: Journal of Anglophone Literature, Culture and Media [Online], 0.5 (2021): 164-183. Web. 27 Apr. 2023


Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (2016) Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pride_and_Prejudice_and_Zombies_(film) 


Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (2016) IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1374989/ 


Tongco, Tricia. “What 'Pride and Prejudice and Zombies' Tells Us About Women And Marriage” Huffpost.com. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/pride-and-prejudice-and-zombies-marriage_n_56bbfa21e4b0b40245c55ec9. Web. 

This is no dream, this is really happening…we’re finally covering Rosemary’s Baby.



***CONTENT WARNING: r*pe, discussions of childhood sexual abuse, abortion



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Sources: 


Carstensen, Thorsten. “Is It Really Happening? The Postmodern Horror of Roman Polanski’s Rosemary’s Baby.” American Studies in Scandinavia, vol. 55, no. 2, 2023, https://doi.org/10.22439/asca.v55i2.7039.


Jacobs, Laura. “The Devil Inside: Watching Rosemary’s Baby in the Age of #MeToo.” VanityFair.com. https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2018/05/watching-rosemarys-baby-in-the-age-of-metoo 


Rosemary’s Baby (1968) Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosemary%27s_Baby_(film) 

Rosemary’s Baby (1968) IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063522/