A movie about a white academic who is determined to learn the truth behind an urban legend, no matter how many black people have to die for her to do it.
Show Notes
Fear Level: Spooky/Existentially disconcerting
Trigger Warnings: Blood, guts, gaslighting, reckless endangerment of children, white male academia, pet death, strobing, needles, the r-slur.
Candyman is a movie all about race, urban legends, poverty, and academia. But they question you'll be asking yourself for months afterward is "does this movie know it's about white feminism?"
Topics of Discussion:
- Ted Raimi, international bad boy
- Is this a sex thing?
- IS your husband made entirely of red flags? We can help.
- Doing a racism
- Climbing through mirrors
- This music goes hard
- Dangling threads
- Toilet full of bees
- Implied dick loss
- Phantom of the Parking Deck
- Don't like that...
- If you ignore black problems, you are black problems
- Bee mouth
- $23,000
- Burnin Helen
Recommendations:
- Ring Shout
- Riot Baby
- Tales from the Hood
- Attack the Block
- American Gods Season 1
- Anansi Boys
- X-Files
- Lovecraft Country
- Paranoia Agent
- Perfect Blue
- Candyman (2021)
- Hellraiser 1&2
- Get Out
- Night of the Living Dead
- Eve's Bayou
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What is Progressively Horrified?
A podcast that holds horror to standards horror never agreed to. Hosts Jeremy Whitley, Ben Kahn, Emily Martin and guests watch, read, listen to, and check out movies, tv shows, comics, books, art and anything else from the horror genre and discuss it through a progressive lens. We'll talk feminism in horror, LGBTQ+ issues and representation in horror, racial and social justice in horror, disability and mental health/illness in horror, and the work of female and POC directors, writers, and creators in horror.
We're the podcast horror never agreed to take part in.