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/