Riverdale
Riverdalemay be a camp teen drama from the CW web , but it ’s also the best repugnance show on television .
While it ’s for sure not marketed as repulsion , Riverdaleshares unwashed motifs , plots , and zany references to classical horror films . The show has try out multiple time that it ’s mean to be included with other repulsion TV . It goes further than ripping off aspects and even direct chronological sequence from iconic horror moving picture likeA Nightmare on Elm StreetandScream . The teen drama has a benighted , almost horror noir component that is continually steeped in all the constituent of a good execution mystery . For example , the intact first time of year is a ' mystery story ' caper to see remove the heir to the Blossom maple syrup empire , Jason Blossom , in cold blood line .
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While that may fathom tame , Riverdaleseems to get dark-skinned with each subsequent time of year and has germinate over the course of four season from a comparatively basic slaying mystery to an installment ofThe Conjuringfranchise .
The Black Hood Is A Serial Killer And “Loving” Father
The second season center on a sequential grampus have it away as The Black Hood in a direct nod to films likeThe Town That Dreaded Sundown(there ’s even an episode with that title ) who is hell - bent on punishing the sinners of Riverdale for their offence . The character is introduced at the end of time of year one , when he germinate Archie ’s father , Fred ( Luke Perry ) , in Pop ’s Chock’lit Shoppe .
Betty ends up get earpiece calls from The Black Hood as he starts to arrogate morevictimsand work up an impressive body tally for a show that is n’t meant to be horror . He even dispatch a student , Midge , during the high school ’s product ofCarrie : The Musicalin a veryPhantom of the Operafashion .
Once The Black Hood ’s identity is revealed as none other than Betty ’s father , the two engage in a Clarice Starling andHannibal Lecterstyle relationship where she periodically visits him in a prison house cell ( which is almost identical , shoot for shot , to the scenes inSilence of the Lambs ) to use his aid now and again , since he has a killer ’s mind .
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The Gargoyle King Is Basically Nightmare Fuel
The third season take Dungeons and Dragons to a newfangled floor of creepy with its incubus creature , The Gargoyle King , who leads many masses to commit felo-de-se while play a distorted biz . While The Gargoyle King does n’t murder people directly , his total story fiddle out a scrap like theSawfranchise , where he is the tool master behind a group of minions who are all doing his bidding by test multitude who bring " griffon and gargoyle " .
It ’s adequate share psychopathic biz headmaster and foreign religious cult dynamics , like we ’ve get word in motion picture likeHalloween 6 : The Curse of Michael Myerswith its Cult of Thorn . Granted , there ’s no mysterious curse of craze giving The Gargoyle King his power . He ferment out to be aScooby Doovillain , a material man in an elaborate costume being behind the crime , which are pull in part by Cheryl ’s mother , Penelope , and impart out by Betty ’s not quite half comrade , Chic . Also , there was a whole side plot line about a different cult who brainwashed Riverdale High Students and other townsfolk so they could harvest their electronic organ .
Riverdale’s Newest Resident: A Haunted Doll
Though the quaternary season is fresh afoot , its early first appearance of a haunted doll seems to be mark a standardized stride with hold on horror element front and centre of attention . The doll , Julian , is reportedly inhabit by the disgruntle tone of Cheryl and Jason ’s long - lose trey , who may or may not be theAntichrist . Showrunner Roberto Aguirre - Sacasa has hinted at these demonic aspects of the Blossom family andBlossoms 666 , one of the comedian , revolved around a plot line where Cheryl and Jason ’s third sib , Julian , was kidnapped by a religious cult because he was the Antichrist .
Also , the show is meant to tie intoThe Chilling Adventures of Sabrina , which is a twisting - off serial and passel heavily with the supernatural , but in a very obscure way . Even though it does n’t lean on its obvious horror chemical element on the surface , the show is understandably a part of the horror music genre and even though its construction and twist shift at breakneck , from time to time exhausting speeds , it ’s the best one on television . Seriously .
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