Rick and Morty Season 6 just launched another one of the series horror-themed episodes, but instead of borrowing from the works of David Cronenberg or films like The Purge, this time we got an homage to so many horror films that deal with the idea that there could be alternate, evil, personas lurking inside of someone. There is a pretty broad list of horror stories that fit into that category – here are some of the ones we spotted.
Here are Rick and Morty's Night Family Episode Horror Movie Easter egg and References Explained Rick and Morty has had many odes to Rod Serling The Twilight Zone over the years, but in titling Season 6 Episode 4 Night Family it seems like the show is paying homage to a different work of Serlin: The Night Gallery.
Running from 1969 1973, Night Gallery was Serling dipping more into horror rather scifi storytelling. Every week viewers got a new horror story each week, based on a painting hanging the gallery of an old museum. Rick and Morty may have done a lot of fans the favor of turning them onto it, after this .This quote opens Rick and Morty's Night Family is a from poet T.S. Eliot's "Fragment of an Agon" a part of his unfinished verse drama Sweeney Agonistes Fragment of an Aristo phanic Melodrama. It's unclear why exactly this exact work –other than the suggestive wording – but "Sweeney Agonistes is itself a reference to Milton's "Samson Agonistes, with both works examining themes of violence, revenge, tortured souls,
and even fores hadowy elements like female betrayal.John Carpenter isn't just the pioneering filmmaker behind classics like The Thing and Halloween he's also a pioneering composer, whose sonic composition went on to define a lot of Hollywood horror that came after. Rick and Morty' soundtrack for Night Family certainly pays a lot of homage to Carpenter's creepy sound, as the show runners confirm in their episode breakdown.
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