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In this final episode of this year’s Ghoulvie Screamset, Will & Hesse take a look at Michael Wadleigh’s “Wolfen” (1981) and Bernard Rose’s “Candyman” (1992). Two films taking advantage of real urban environments the horrors of city life, from the intrusion of primordial natural evil in Wolfen, to manifesting the everyday horror of urban poverty in Candyman.

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Anonymous

As per Candy Man and the erotic gothic stuff Will mentioned: I find this film (as a horror movie) very interesting because it’s the only one I’ve seen this year that wasn’t almost directly about jouissance (in its terrifying form from early-ish Lacan - Ethics Seminar/Kant avec Sade). This film is instead about desire - she follows her desire to discover the truth about Candy Man to the end and regretting the fulfillment of her wish (much like Antigone’s regret when she has been condemned to be buried alive). Even at the end, when she has nothing, between-two-deaths - she spends the last corporal moments of her life saving the baby; very Antigone. However, even if this film isn’t about jouissance proper it’s definitely about the “death drive”. Desire is always a mirage - and dissipates once the object has been apprehended. Her lack (of dissertation) led her to pursue a thread to the end with horrifying and unimaginable consequences. Also Candy Man is always talking about his desire for her - she has become his fantasy object that he pursues without knowing what he wants (he says at some point “all you have left is my desire for you” or something like that); what’s terrifying for her, is what will happen to her once he has her and immediately loses interest in her as an object of desire? This is what is so terrifying about an Other’s desire, it’s so fickle. Forgive me for name dropping Lacan.

Anonymous

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