ABSTRACT
This chapter talks about three haunted house films to further substantiate this perspective:The Exorcist, Repulsion and The Others. It focuses on a particular part of the house that functions as the locus of horror: the bedroom. This space elicits fascination in the fact that it is at once a site of intimacy and transgression, both of which are intrinsically connected. Moreover, as a place associated with sexuality, the bedroom is also where private and sometimes forbidden, desires are realized. The chapter focuses on two key scenes: Regan's masturbation with a crucifix and Father Karras's death toward the end of the film. To appreciate the confluence between subject and bedroom in horror, two concepts inform the subsequent discussion. The first is an architectural idea introduced by Deleuze called the pli while the second, the extimate has its basis in Lacanian psychoanalysis. The bedroom is a pli that functions to motivate the emergence and sustenance of the subject's extimity.
