ZACH MORTICE reviews the vigilante historic preservation of the Candyman movies.

By placing a hook-handed killer in Chicago's Cabrini-Green projects, the 1992 movie Candyman is an architectural horror cult classic. It presents the failure of public-sector Modern architecture besieged by neoliberal policy and racism as the ideal setting for gothic urban legend. It's 2021 remake, directed by Nia DaCosta and produced by Jordan Peele, is indeilby altered by the dynamiting of Cabrini-Green, and traces the Candyman's looping trajectory of violence as it spirals out into the city.

Zach Mortice is a Chicago design journalist and critic who focuses on the intersection of design and politics in landscapes and buildings.

PAULA VILAPLANA DE MIGUEL reviews the psychic shops of New York.

Vilaplana de Miguel is a curator, designer, and scholar based in New York. Her work focuses on exhibition spaces and cultural initiatives, with an emphasis on media, technology, and bodily practices.