With his sidekick DyTillo, a Quasimodo-esque man whom Jeremy rescued from being hit by a car once, he brings about the Norse apocalypse by playing a magic flute and making a pact with something known as the Dark Entity.Īnd the animation – wowzers.
This time, the villain is a broken-hearted man named Jeremy who decides to bring about the end of the world after Cindy, the woman he loved, turns down his marriage proposal to follow her career. The horror here is a personal tragedy translated on a global scale, an allegory for the devastation one survives after a breakup. Maybe JMS knows more about its sustainability than we do. It’s especially spooktacular thanks to the show’s dreary visual style, which insistent on generating as much nightmare fuel as possible. Michael Straczynski episode! As a sucker for Norse mythology, I had to put this one on the list.
The icing on the pumpkin spice cake, however, is Bob Miller’s voice acting, who portrays Samhain with an extra layer of gravelly menace that just nails it.
This episode takes time building up a sense of dread that reaches far beyond the city of New York, much like the black cloud Samhain summons that stretches out across the world. Like most other RGB episodes, what makes “When Halloween Was Forever” so effective is its atmosphere. How Hunt A Killer Expands the Blair Witch Universe with New Horror Game By Aaron Sagers In fact, it’s about time for Samhain to make a comeback, don’t you think? This episode is spooky because wouldn’t you be creeped out if all those demons and monsters banded together to bring about an apocalypse of their own making? I know I would. This is the debut of Samhain, probably the most recognizable contribution RGBmade to the Ghostbusters canon. Things get weirder as a sequence straight out of a Junji Ito manga happens when the gang is caught up in a psychedelic whirlwind made up of purple and yellow eyes. Seeing ghostly apparitions made up of dusty old junk in the attic is creepy enough, but when it shifts around to become a likeness of the grim reaper himself, it’s time to run in the opposite direction while pooping yourself.
This plot device is highly similar to that of Batman’s Dark Knight, Dark City story by Peter Milligan and Kieron Dwyer. In “The Thing…”, the team runs around an elderly woman’s curiously large attic, chased by an evil cosmic entity that her late husband summoned a long time ago while performing a dark ritual.
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