MaKayla Hensley: Horror/Fantasy

The Dark Tower is a Stephen King novel that has always caught my interest. I saw the movie starring Matthew McConaughey and Idris Elba. It was definitely an interesting twist reading the one of the books afterwards. It didn't come to a surprise to me that a writer like him had his work "adjusted" for family and community audiences. Still I don't think I could have been prepared enough for I read. It's really interesting how in this hero's journey there is no distinct identity of time. No past, present or future, just a very damaged and diseased apocalyptic landscape. Another thing that really caught my interest was Roland. I got the feeling he was a kind of anti-hero from the film but they put him in a lens where audiences would still love him, but in the novel his conquest to hunt the Man in Black puts him in varying situations where his morals seem very demented. In order to hunt down one being he kills and sacrifices so many.

I wouldn't necessarily call the witches in Akata Witch to be "witch archetypes" but rather personality archetypes that are catalyzed with enchanted talents. Everyone has a companion who is known for their mischievous and playful nature that can sometimes get messy (Chichi) and everyone had a more set back and mild mannered friend who is usually responsible for cleaning up after the more chaotic of the bunch (Orlu). Chichi is an interesting character who values intelligence over monetary wealth but still pushes the bounds of how dangerous juju can be. There are a couple of other sorcerer type characters that follow this identical role (ex: Loki) but the setting that this entire tale takes place also breaks up the clarity on if this archetypes are truly holding salt or not.

Weird Horror has a kind of grey audience as to which kind of audience it would appeal to. There are some weird horror that is comedic, where the reason that it is weird is these unsettling problems are approached with almost screwball solutions. There are some horror films where the execution of unsettling phenomena is not clear cut. Instead of say a specific monster or killer, the procedure is more ornate either by tricking or influencing others. It can even go so far as the "weirdness" in most cases is a problem produced by man. Whether it's an apocalyptic future where creatures made by some conglomerate company rule the earth, or a bunch of white coats sacrifice some teens by putting them in a cabin for them to be killed by a random horror trope, or children killing their families after seeing some sort of demonic symbol or video. It is kind of a statement in that scenario, because especially in this day and age we are more aware than ever that human action and error i