"Sabrina's Icing Adventures": episode-by-episode horror reference

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The blood of the creator of the series Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa is a horror love, which appears in "Chilling Adventures of Sabrina," his dark interpretation of the clbadic title of Archie Comics "Sabrina the Teenage Witch." In adapting his comic book for Netflix, he discussed some of these horror influences with Lee Toland Krieger, who would set the tone for the series by directing the first two episodes.

"He arranged the clip screening of some of our favorite movies," said Aguirre-Sacasa. "The three great witch movies are" Rosemary's Baby "," Suspiria "by Dario Argento and" The Witch ", Robert Eggers's movie, released a few years ago, and even more recently, Ti West's film , "House of the Devil", and "The Black Mantle Girl", from Oz Perkins, with Kiernan [Shipka] Actually. As for the devil movies, we talked about "The Omen", we talked about "The Exorcist", the "Evil Dead" by Sam Raimi. "

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References to these cultures and other pop cultures are scattered throughout the series, as well as references to the Salem Witch Trials of 1692 and 1693. Sabrina Spellman (Kiernan Shipka) and her family of witches live in Greendale, which has also been affected by moral panic. of this time.

Here are each tributes and Easter eggs, episode by episode:

"Chapter One: Country of October"

"Icy Adventures of Sabrina" and "Thriller"

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• "The country of October": Ray Bradbury's 1955 horror anthology is the inspiration for the title of this episode. Two of the 19 new macabre stories in the collection focus on the Elliotts, a family of supernatural people, much like the Addams family or the Spellmans.
• Clbadic horror movies: At the Paramount Theater, where Sabrina and her friends are watching George A. Romero's "Night of the Living Dead", four posters present Horrorthon's other offerings: the science-fiction glove for ants "Them", the film Horror "Freaks", preceding the Code, "And the 1970 British film" Taste Dracula's Blood ". Later, Harvey (Ross Lynch) quotes a replica of the zombie movie that they watched: "They come to pick you up, Barbara.
• "Thriller" Sabrina is parallel to the character of Michael Jackson in "Thriller" at the cinema, both dressed in red and cheerfully munching popcorn while the rest of the audience is visibly disturbed by the horror on the screen. "Thriller" is a video music masterpiece directed by John Landis, with a scary voice-over of the legend of the horror Vincent Price.
• "Halloween": When Sabrina greets her teacher, Mrs. Wardwell (Michelle Gomez) in the Paramount lobby, she is surprised that this woman loves scary movies. Ms. Wardwell responds, "Who does not enjoy a good fear from time to time, especially in this time of year?" The line picks up one of the most famous lines of the film's John Carpenter in 1978, when, having surprised Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis), Sheriff Brackett (Charles Cyphers) said, "It's Halloween, I guess everyone is entitled to a good scare."
• Dr. Cerberus: Aguirre-Sacasa wrote a play of the same name on a teen obsessed animator of the animated TV show Saturday Night Horror, Dr. Cerberus. In "Sabrina", it is also the name of the owner of the store Cerberus Books (played by Battlestar Galactica alumni, Alessandro Juliani), where Sabrina and her friends meet after the movie. Cerberus is also a Greek mythology with three heads guarding the gates of Hell, and an image of the creature is visible on the signage. Could that be why Dr. Cerberus's eyes shine in the last episode?

• Putnam family: Susie (Lachlan Watson), Sabrina's friend, has the same name as the Putnams, two of whom were prominent accusers at Salem Witch's trials.
• Wardwell: Sabrina's teacher, Wardwell (Michelle Gomez), is probably named after Samuel Wardwell, a man accused of being later executed for witchcraft in Salem Witch's trials in 1692.
• Dr. Saperstein: Mrs. Wardwell announced that she would take the girl she would have found on the road to this doctor, who has the same name as recommended by the evil doctor recommended in "Rosemary's Baby."
• "Hellraiser": Elements of Mrs. Wardwell's house, wallpaper with stained glbad, are inspired by the Cotton family's home in Clive Barker's 1987 film.
• "Suspiria": When a bat flies through Sabrina's window, she crushes it with a book in a scene that echoes Suzy who kills a bat with a stool while she's lying at the dance academy.
• "The house of the seven gables": The exterior of the Spellmans' house is inspired by that of the 1940 Gothic horror film, adapted from the novel of the same name by Nathaniel Hawthorne. The entrance door even sports the iconic iron spikes. The book refers to a man who had been executed for witchcraft in the 17th century.
• Tom Vinegar: Aunt Zelda (Miranda Otto) is referring to her dead dog, Tom Vinegar, which was familiar to her. "Tom's Vinegar" is Caryl Churchill's 1976 British play that examines gender and power relations through the prism of 17th-century witchcraft trials in England.
• Principal Hawthorne: The name of Sabrina's principal (played by Bronson Pinchot) is a nod to John Hathorne, one of the leading judges of the Salem Witch Trials. His descendant, author Nathaniel Hawthorne, added a "w" to the spelling of the name.

Ross Lynch, Kiernan Shipka and Jaz Sinclair, "Chilling Adventures of Sabrina"

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• The Archies: Sabrina wears a vintage thermos on which are archies.
• Stolas: Mrs. Wardwell's familiar raven has the same name as a demon mentioned in the Ars Godetia who is a great prince of hell, described as being either "an owl crowned with long legs, a raven or a man."
• Sabrina's decor Among the smart keys observed in Sabrina's room are a "Nosferatu" poster, a witch's bottle on her vanity, and a poster by David Bowie, a chameleon who presented himself fluently and adopted images of occultism. . His video clip for "Blackstar" shows him holding a book with a black star – or maybe a pentagram – on it, and includes pictures of what could be a ritual involving women and a skull.
• "The witch": In trying to convince Sabrina to sign the Dark Lord's book, Zelda says it's the price to pay for the "extraordinary and delicious gifts that he offers us". This is reminiscent of the line in "The Witch" when Black Phillip asks Thomasina, "Do you want the taste of butter? A pretty dress? Do you want to live deliciously?

"Sabrina's Frozen Adventures" and "Suspiria"

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• Gibson Girl Screen Background: The Spellman house is adorned with feminist images, but one of the most important is the head of the Gibson Girl, repeated in an eye-catching wallpaper in the main living room. The Gibson girl was originally conceived by artist Charles Dana Gibson as an ideal of feminine beauty at the end of the nineteenth century and, throughout her use, she sent contradictory messages that would undermine or support sociopolitical change. women. The black and white backdrop also mimics the black and white flower wallpaper that is seen in the roommate's apartment in "Suspiria".
• "Zodiac": When Ambrose (Chance Perdomo) brings Connor Kemper's body to the morgue to embalm it, Donovan's "Hurdy Gurdy Man" plays, with slow motion and yellow filter. This echoes the opening scene of David Fincher's "Zodiac", where the song is performed in the brutal attack by Darlene Ferrin and Michael Mageau. Connor's family name is that of another serial killer, Ed Kemper.
• "Wizard of Oz" and "Snow White": While a demonic scarecrow pursues and attacks Sabrina through a maze of hay, it is shown that Wardwell controls the scarecrow from afar through a flapper, a doll made to represent a person who will cast spells. She says, "There will be no apple picking for you, darling." This sequence seems to channel both the Wicked Witch of the West, who tried to throw trouble on Dorothy's path by magic, and the wicked Queen in "Snow White," who turned into an idol and offered to the princess a poisoned apple.
• "The brilliant": Sabrina's labyrinth of hay is similar to Danny's maze of garden hedges as he tried to flee Jack in Stephen Kubrick's Stephen King's novel.
• Malum Malus: Translated literally as "apple of evil," this fruit will supposedly give Sabrina a glimpse of the future if she eats it. It's like Eve was biting in the apple of the tree of knowledge.
• Faustus Blackwood: The high priest (Richard Coyle) probably owes his name to Faust, a legendary German character who has made an agreement with the devil to obtain unlimited knowledge and earthly pleasures.

"Chapter Two: The Baptism of Darkness"

• "Witches' Sabbath": A copy of Goya's mural appears in Spellman's house and represents a witches' enclosure that curls up in front of Satan, who has the head of a goat.
• The Lord of Darkness: When Sabrina uses the term The Devil and says that it is the incarnation of evil, Father Blackwood corrects it and says that the Dark Lord is actually the incarnation of free will. This fits with Anton LaVay and Satan's interpretation of Satan as a symbol of enlightenment, just as the "false god" is a source of oppression.

Lucy Davis, "Sabrina's Icing Adventures"

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The many faces of Eddie Munster

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• Eddie Munster: Susie dresses up as the son of "The Munsters" for Roz's Halloween party. It is also a sneaky reference to Issue No. 7 of the Chilling Adventures of Sabrina comic strip, which plunges into the story of Edward Spellman, Sabrina's father. As a young boy, he is brought to resemble Eddie Munster, to the old-fashioned group and the extreme widow's summit.
• "The ruins": When Sabrina flees her dark baptism and is captured by spelled vines, this scene resembles that where the character of Laura Ramsey tries to escape the predatory vines in the 2008 horror film taking place in a Mexican jungle . It also looks like the infamous tree scene of "The Evil Dead" in 1981.
• "Fighting spirit": When Hawthorne's principal calls Sabrina through the intercom, Roz (Jaz Sinclair) says, "He's scared!" In the same way Carol Anne says, "They're here!" And "They're back ! "In the films" Poltergeist ".

«Chapter Three: The Sabrina Spellman Trial»

• "The devil and Daniel Webster": Stephen Vincent Benet wrote this short story that highlights Faustian's clbadic narrative, which tells the story of a farmer who trades with the devil and hires lawyer Daniel Webster to defend him. In this episode, Sabrina is sued for not having spent the baptism in the darkness. The lawyer she hired also calls Daniel Webster. It turns out that he also spent a bargain with the devil at one point. Later, it was revealed that Sabrina's father had also made an agreement with Satan to marry a mortal.
• "Carrie": In the girls bathroom at Baxter High, a leaflet reads: "Keep the water: plug it in, plug it in, plug it in!" This is a reference to the opening of "Carrie" in which girls harbad and launch products at Carrie when she panics for having her period for the first time.
• "Hellraiser": A side table in Father Blackwood's office is designed to resemble the Hellraiser puzzle box.

"Chapter Four: Witch Academy"

Liam Hughes in "Chilling Adventures of Sabrina" and Jacopo Mariani in "Suspiria"

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• "Fly": Sabrina's friends discuss the subtext of the two versions of the horror movie: the 1958 sci-fi movie and David Cronenberg's body horror version starring Jeff Goldblum in 1986.
• "Support me": On her first day at the Academy of Unseen Arts, Sabrina walks the tracks, recalling how the boys traveled in "Stand by Me," the next-generation film based on Stephen King's short story , "The Body".
• Gehenna: The Academy is labeled Station Gehenna. Gehenna is a small valley in Jerusalem where some kings of Judah have sacrificed their children by fire, according to the Hebrew Bible. This bodes well for Sabrina's education. Gehenna can also be synonymous with hell.
• Scary child: Quentin (Liam Hughes) is Sabrina's child at school, but her old clothes are a clue that something else is coming. He is dressed almost like the nephew of the director of "Suspiria" of Dario Argento.
• Clive Barker: The master of horror loaned 150 original paintings to the series to line the walls of the Academy.
• Baphomet: The giant sculpture of Satan with the goat's head in the center of the Academy is inspired by Baphomet, a deity whom the Templars were falsely accused of venerating. It has become a symbol of the occult. Anecdote: "Baphomet" (actually, "Baa-phomet") is also the name of the goat sacrificed by Sabrina in the comic "Chilling Adventures".
• Charles Manson: The choir sings "I'll never say, never, always," one of Charles Manson's songs. Here are the words below:
  

  Always is forever forever
  As long as we are one
  In you for your father
  Everything is bad all is not everything is one.
  It's time to put our love behind you
  The illusion is that a dream
  The valley of death and I will find you
  Now it's when on a sunbeam
  So bring us young perfection
  Because here we will surely
  No clothes, tears or hunger
  You can see that you can see that you can be.

• Nicholas Scratch: Sabrina's new clbadmate at the Academy has a nickname – Old Nick and Mr. Scratch – but he also shares the name of a comic book warrior "The Fantastic Four".
• "Carnival of Souls": Roz and Susie are watching Herk Harvey's 1962 independent horror film that inspired David Lynch and George Romero.
• "The girl of the black coat": Kiernan Shipka also starred in Oz Perkin's 2015 horror film, in which her character uses a public phone at her boarding school, like Sabrina at the Academy.

Kiernan Shipka in "The Girl in the Black Coat" and "The Icing Adventures of Sabrina"

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• Acheron configuration puzzle box: The blue puzzle box that Sabrina has to solve bears the name of Acheron, one of the five rivers of the underworld of Greek mythology.
• Light as a feather, stiff as a board This levitation game dates back to the 17th century and was seen in "The Craft" and the Hulu series "Light as a Feather". Quentin and the other children killed by a heartbreaking song are part of a levitation spell.

«Chapter Five: Dreams in a Witch House»

• "Dreams in the witch house": The title of the episode is inspired by a film from HP's Lovecraft story about a man who rents an attic apartment in a house that once housed a person accused of witchcraft but who has disappeared from prison in 1692. The man makes strange, disturbing and more and more violent dreams.
• BATIBAT: The name of the Sleep Demon is inspired by a demon of Ilocano folklore inspired by the Bangungot demon, which means "nightmare" in Tagalog.
• "Freddy": Batibat haunts the dreams of all, turning his worst fears into murderous nightmares is like Freddy Krueger.
• "Buffy against the vampires": The plot of the episode is very close to the last episode of season 4, "Restless", in which Buffy and her friends are trapped in their dreams after the accidental invocation of The First Slayer . Batibat also looks like The First Slayer.
• "Suspiria": Zelda opens a secret door in the wall that is painted to resemble the "Suspiria" mural that has opened in a secret pbadageway by turning the painted blue iris.

Miranda Otto, "The Frosty Adventures of Sabrina" and Jessica Harper, "Suspiria"

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• Sabrina's nightmare: She dreams that Harvey offers her at school and that, in the original comics, Harvey really offers it in real life.
• "Sleeping hollow": When Sabrina is forced to enter Iron Maiden and blood flows, it reminds of Tim Burton's "Sleepy Hollow" flashback scene, where Ichabod Craine (Johnny Depp) remembers the death of her son. mother, supposed to be a witch, in the hands of her own hyper-religious father.
• "Hamlet": In the embalming room of his dream, Ambrose paraphrases an excerpt from Hamlet's speech about a dead comrade: "Alas, poor Ambrose, I knew him well."
• Parasitic twins: In Hilda's nightmare, she imagines the principal Hawthorne confessing to having a parasitic twin named Bob, whose torso is an integral part. "I absorbed it in the womb, I ate it, my own brother. I swallowed it like a little greedy pig. This trope has been seen in science fiction, including a story by Philip K. Dick, and horror. Hawthorne also uses the wording of cannibalism in which witches participate throughout the series.
• "Suspiria": The living room that Zelda reads to the children has the same stained glbad window as in the first scene of death in "Suspiria".
• Cain and Abel: In Zelda's nightmare, she kills Hilda again, expecting her to be resurrected in their special plot at the cemetery. But when the Dark Lord asks her where Hilda is, she distorts Cain's words after he kills Adam: "Am I my sister's guardian?"

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