Rick and Morty follows the insane misadventures of a mad scientist and his innocent grandson. The show is basically the premise of Back to the Future, but Doc has a heavy drinking problem, and the two of them travel through different dimensions instead of time.
The show admires a wide spectrum of horror and science fiction, paying homage to things like David Cronenberg, Frankenstein, and Zardoz. While the show may expand to many horror genres, it has a fondness for Cosmic Horror. A genre made popular by horror icon HP Lovecraft, the Cosmic Horror genre focuses on the unknown, and things we can never comprehend. Rick and Morty uses the universe to explore deep philosophical questions by making the audience question what hides in the deepest
Freaks and Geeks gives a new and realistic portrayal of adolescence in a nice small package of a television show. It strays from the media stereotype of adolescent by showing adolescent life in a new light. It reveals the lesson that many adolescents have to learn to become a mature adult, the choices they have to make that will affect their life in a major or minor way, and the struggles many endured that makes them take rash decision or lost in what they do. Freaks and Geeks is a show that I recommend to many who are sick of stereotypical shows that media broadcast on television.
Rick and Morty is one of the very few shows that allow us to examine and question our own existence. On one hand,
The horror genre is synonymous with images of terror, violence and human carnage; the mere mention of horror movies evokes physical and psychological torture. As remarked by noted author Stephen King “the mythic horror movie…has a dirty job to do. It deliberately appeals to all that is worst in us. It is morbidity unchained, our most base instincts let free, our nastiest fantasies realized.” (King, 786). At manageable intervals, we choose to live these horrific events vicariously through the characters in horror movies and books as a means of safely experiencing the “what if”. The horror genre allows us to explore our fears, be it spiders, vampires, loss of our identity, or death of a loved, under the most fantastic and horrible circumstances conceivable. King also points out that by watching horror movies we “may allow our emotions a free rein . . . or no rein at all.” (King, 784). According to psychiatrist James Schaller, by vicariously “experiencing contrived fears, a person develops a sense of competence over similar types of fears.” (Schaller). Horror films allow the viewer the opportunity to safely examine their fears safely and to the depth and extent they wish to do so. Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 provides the opportunity for the viewer to consider a diverse range of fears, with a little humor thrown in for balance, from the safety of a darkened room, a comfortable seat and in less than 120 minutes.
Family Guy, an animated sitcom about a New England family and their everyday dilemmas, is a way for viewers to see the comedic side of a dysfunctional family. The Griffins consist of Peter and Lois, the patriarch and matriarch, and Meg, Chris, and Stewie are the children(Family Guy). Every character is different from the next character. They are also weird in their own way. The television show itself displays feminism, structuralism, and gay and lesbian criticism. Each character in the show also displays those criticisms in a certain fashion. Family Guy can be offensive to viewers with its satire, and the way the show delivers its message can make the family and the other characters in the show seem dysfunctional.
Carpenter also gives his audience a sense of aesthetic distance through his numerous in-jokes and references to other horror films.
Film scholars around the world agree that all genres of film are part of the “genre cycle”. This cycle contains four different stages that a specific genre goes through. These stages are: primitive, classic, revisionist, and parody. Each stage that the genre goes through brings something different to that genre’s meaning and what the audience expects. I believe that looking at the horror genre will be the most beneficial since it has clearly gone through each stage.
...ifferent genres branching off the horror genre – it is not as popular as it used or as it should be. For instance:
Monsters are symbols and representations of a culture. They exist because of certain places or feelings of a time period. Monsters are “an embodiment of a certain cultural moment”. Author of Grendel, John Gardner, and author of Frankenstein, Mary Shelley, both create a monster to represent something larger than itself in order to have the reader reflect on their “fears, desires, anxiety, and fantasy” in society, which is explained in Jefferey Cohen's Monster Culture (Seven Theses). The latest trend in monster media, zombies, also fit into Cohen's theses on what a monster is.
Much of the initial appeal of monster stories comes from the fact that they, like their twisted
H.P Lovecraft writing embodies the appalling aspects of society during his time. For him the real monsters and true horror lies with the decline of the white race and an increase in people of color. His beliefs are in line with the eugenics movement, which is the scientific belief that it is possible to control the breeding of the human population so you can weed out the undesirable traits, basically to make a superior race.
Rick and Morty is considered one of the most bizarre and creatively written new cartoons on Adult Swim. In the show, an alcoholic scientist, Rick Sanchez, goes on countless adventures through space with his dimwitted grandson, Morty Smith. Beyond employing science fiction tropes, creators Justin Roiland and Dan Harmon also write episodes with overarching themes in mind. For example, this series also portrays Sartre’s Existentialism in the sense that, regarding the relativity of perspectives, it forces viewers to consider human insignificance in the greater universe. In one episode, Rick states that “Listen, Morty, I hate to break it to you but what people call ‘love’ is just a chemical reaction that compels animals to breed. […] Rise above.
Stephen King, a very well-known writer and director, has a passionate voice when it comes to anything dealing with horror. In “Why We Crave Horror Movies,” King calls us out for knowing that we love the adrenaline rush and how we are so captivated by horror movies. He explains how we watch horror movies for the level of fun. King proposes that we go to defy ourselves; to see how far it can push us and that is what makes the experience so interesting. We lock our inner psycho from reality and feed it with the demonic, bloody violence found in horror movies. Doing this suggests that horror movies are our fix for our psychotic thoughts. Stephen King’s “Why We Crave Horror Movies” portrays that we are all insane in some weird way through
Horror films are designed to frighten the audience and engage them in their worst fears, while captivating and entertaining at the same time. Horror films often center on the darker side of life, on what is forbidden and strange. These films play with society’s fears, its nightmare’s and vulnerability, the terror of the unknown, the fear of death, the loss of identity, and the fear of sexuality. Horror films are generally set in spooky old mansions, fog-ridden areas, or dark locales with unknown human, supernatural or grotesque creatures lurking about. These creatures can range from vampires, madmen, devils, unfriendly ghosts, monsters, mad scientists, demons, zombies, evil spirits, satanic villains, the possessed, werewolves and freaks to the unseen and even the mere presence of evil.
b. Thesis Statement: Stephen King uses many different elements in order to scare his readers. The elements include supernatural elements, real life scenarios, and fear of the unknown.
Authors have used view of point, resolution, and different genres to surprise and terrify readers. Once a reader reads a horror book, they are left out with many ideas but with these techniques they're able to determine what the book it's about or it's going to be about. These techniques have gave us a better understanding of terrifying books. After all, reading suspenseful book are interesting but can also lead to consequences based how it is explained. Readers make a great job to describe characters and create a tension between horror