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| “ | Embrace my warmth, priest. | „ |
| ~ Moloch to Father Gregor |
| “ | Dexter: Father. Do you know where my mom is? I'm...freezing. My mom gives me hugs when it's cold. Could you...give me one? Give him the children, father.
Michelle: Help my son Father Gregor...give him the children. |
„ |
| ~ Moloch trying to use his illusions to manipulate Father Gregor |
| “ | Abandon all hope, priest. Their salvation is futile, they belong in my eternal flame. You are NOTHING! | „ |
| ~ Moloch |
Moloch is one of the two main antagonists (alongside the Cult Leader) of the 2018 horror comedy web series, Spooky Month.
Originally prank-called into the mortal realm using a Ouija board by Skid and Pump, he grows to resent them after they forget to let him out of the attic for two years. He escapes the attic by possessing an exterminator Lila hired and goes on a rampage but accidentally kills his vessel after getting tricked by Pump. Later on, after Dexter is being autopsied, Moloch returns and possesses the morgue worker Patty, going on a rampage after returning to the mortal realm. He is the arch-nemesis of Father Gregor.
For a majority of the series, he was voiced by the series creator, Sr. Pelo (who also voiced Bob Velseb from the same series). In Hollow Sorrows, he is voiced by Alexander Katnik.
His Evil Ranking[]
What Makes Him Close to Being Pure Evil?[]
- As implied from the ARG of Hollow Sorrows, Moloch managed to convince the Cult Leader into sacrificing 6 children to him in exchange for divine knowledge, which is implied to have indirectly led to the summoning of the Eyes of the Universe.
- When Lila, thinking Moloch was a rat, hired an Exterminator named Dexter Erotoph to kill him, Moloch attacked and possessed him, using his body as a vessel.
- While Dexter was a sociopathic and unhinged man who has presumably tortured and murdered numerous animals and cats sadistically in the past, Moloch likely didn’t know about this or didn’t really care and was just focused on escaping the attic he was imprisoned in, willing to possess an innocent man for all he knew and use him to attack and hurt others.
- It is implied that Moloch possessing Dexter’s body was painful given how his body altered and how Dexter screamed when Moloch attacked and possessed him.
- He attacks Lila (Skid’s mother), painfully squeezing her and threatening to rip her apart and keep her alive, and likely would have succeeded in doing so if Skid and Pump hadn’t intervened, with the only reason that he spared Lila being that he was more focused on killing Skid and Pump as revenge for leaving him trapped in Skid’s attic, and even then Moloch still harshly threw her to the ground.
- He threatened Skid and Pump that he would burn their skin and feast on their flesh.
- Moloch is responsible for Dexter’s death due to agreeing to turn his head to prove to Skid and Pump he is Moloch, intending to murder the kids after, only for Dexter’s neck to break when he tried, accidentally but brutally ending Dexter’s life.
- This would cause Dexter’s spirit to possess Skid’s Happy Fella doll, making Moloch indirectly responsible for Dexter becoming a deranged and murderous doll and his actions in Spooky Month 4.
- It was also revealed that Dexter’s death deeply devastated his mother, causing her to lose trust in everything.
- While killing Dexter was accidental, he shows no remorse for this.
- When Dexter’s body was taken to the morgue for autopsy, Moloch took possession of Patty, a worker at the morgue, using her body as a vessel.
- It seems Patty being possessed by Moloch to an extent traumatized her as it convinced her to want to become a police officer so she could own a gun legally to defend herself.
- When he was walking through the hospital possessing Patty, Moloch stopped at a nursery, breathing heavily at the sight of the defenseless babies resting in it, possibly meaning Moloch was going to attack and kill the infants if Dexter’s mom hadn’t distracted him, due to coming for her monthly check and looking for a doctor, where Moloch pretending to help her to lure her away, only to brutally murder her, while it was offscreen we don’t see her anymore and we see her blood everywhere in the hospital room Moloch lured her too, with her locket with a picture of Dexter being on the floor.
- When Father Gregor returned to the hospital to exorcise him, Moloch spoke in Patty’s voice begging for help to taunt Father Gregor and presumably tried to attack Skid and Pump to get revenge on them, mockingly saying to let him give them his “forgiveness”.
- He lunged at Father Gregor in an attempt to kill him.
- He presumably uses Patty’s voice calling out to Skid and Pump begging for help to manipulate them into stopping Father Gregor from exorcising him and so he could kill them.
- When Father Gregor exorcises him from Patty’s body, Moloch jumps at Skid and Pump in an attempt to kill them.
- After being exorcised from Patty’s body, Moloch mockingly told Father Gregor to embrace his “warmth”, and demanded he give him Skid and Pump so he could presumably kill them.
- Disturbingly made illusions of Dexter and his mother in an attempt to manipulate Father Gregor into dropping his guard and giving him Skid and Pump.
- This confirms that Moloch not only holds no remorse for being responsible for both their deaths, but since it is likely Moloch can go through their minds (otherwise Moloch wouldn’t have known of Dexter’s mother hugging him when it gets cold), it's likely he knew how Dexter’s death devastated his mother and yet still didn’t care, using their tragic fates at his hand to manipulate Father Gregor.
- When Father Gregor fails to fall for his illusions and throws holy water on Moloch, demanding he give Gregor his name so he can exorcise him, Moloch threatens to devour him.
- Despite Skid and Pump defending him and trying to protect him from Father Gregor, Moloch still tried to grab Pump likely in an attempt to kill him, only stopping when he gave out his name, which is what would allow Father Gregor to exorcise him from the mortal realm, where Moloch then runs away, breaking the hospital wall in the process, showing Moloch to be a coward.
- When Father Gregor, Skid, and Pump began chasing him, Moloch committed several acts of property damage, attempted murder, and possessed numerous people:
- He destroyed and wrecked the front of Mayor Evermore’s limo.
- Possessed Roy.
- Trampled a kid when running away from Father Gregor, Skid, and Pump.
- Possessed Kevin and started wrecking the candy store, breaking glass, throwing candy everywhere, and throwing several sharp lollipops that almost hit Father Gregor, and presumably was going to lunge and attack Radford to kill him.
- Broke through the wall of the candy store, crushing a random person to death.
- Rammed into the costumed Happy Fella, causing him to fall into a dumpster.
- Moloch would exploit Skid and Pump’s care for him into letting him inside their bodies to possess them.
- Possessing Skid and Pump, Moloch would attack and wound Father Gregor, taunting the priest by saying Skid and Pump’s salvation are futile, and that they belong in his eternal flame, heavily implying Moloch was going to send Skid and Pump’s souls to Hell possibly or an equally horrific fate, mocking Father Gregor and calling him "nothing".
- Although he is mourned by Skid and Pump after Father Gregor exorcises him, it’s not played for sympathy in the context of the narrative since the duo are too young and naive to understand his true nature, which Moloch had continuously taken advantage of.
- While he was completely played for laughs at first, he's taken more and more seriously in each episode he appears in, culminating in him being taken dead seriously in "Hollow Sorrows" (with the exception of him making it rain free candy while possessing Kevin, which was far too brief to distract from his threat, especially considering he attacked Father Gregor with spiked treats in that scene), where he becomes the most evil villain in the series, with Bob Velseb being the only one to give him any competition.
What Prevents Him from Being Pure Evil?[]
- Some of his worst actions rely on a bit too much Fridge Horror with his other acts while still brutal, aren't completely enough to make Moloch stand out enough for Pure Evil.
- It wasn’t dwelled into how painful, horrific, and traumatizing his possession is, while Dexter did scream when Moloch possessed him, it wasn’t confirmed whether because Moloch taking over his body was painful or because he was scared by a demon attacking him, it seems that the victims Moloch possess are unconscious during this possession, while “Patty” calls out to Skid and Pump begging for help when Moloch possessed her, this was more likely Moloch using her voice to manipulate them into stopping Father Gregor from exorcising him rather than Patty being conscious and being in pain considering how Moloch specifically called out to Skid and Pump, the kids he wants revenge on and the ones who weren't trying to harm him, still had his orange eyes signifying his possession when using her voice, and despite “Patty” begging Skid and Pump for help, still held shoulder against face to block the incoming holy water Father Gregor threw. The fact that most of Moloch’s possessed victims recover pretty quickly from his possession further adds on how his possession doesn't seem to be that horrific or bad.
- While he does threaten to burn Skid and Pump’s skin and feast on their flesh, the brutality of this threat isn’t expanded upon much even if it still would be brutal.
- It was never confirmed if Moloch was actually going to murder the infants in the nursery.
- Nothing confirms he was going to try and kill Rick and Ignacio as he does nothing except roar at them, lowering his attempted kill count to just Skid, Pump, Father Gregor, and likely Radford.
- Moloch had no idea of the random person he crushed to death when he broke through the candy stores wall.
- It was never exactly dwelled into what Moloch meant that Skid and Pump’s salvation were futile and that they belong in his eternal flame, while this heavily implied Moloch was going to damn Skid and Pump’s souls and send them to Hell, nothing is confirmed nor was it dwelled into if this is true how horrific it would be.
- With all this said, Moloch fails the heinous standards to Bob Velseb (a serial killer who gruesomely murdered via dismembering them and cannibalized several more people than Moloch, with his cannibalism arguably being a worse crime than Moloch’s attempted man-eating due to eating his own kind, as well as successfully leaving someone to a horrific fate with Bob mutilating Streber and leaving him to bleed out still conscious, with it being shown in "Hollow Sorrows" that Streber survived but is now an amputee, as well Bob has a much higher attempted kill count as well with 7 victims), and arguably Dexter (who has a much larger attempted kill count of 12 and has heavily implied and likely to have murdered numerous animals prior, with animals in the Spooky Month universe seeming to be sapient as evident by a cats utter fear when Dexter took him to the “vet”), both having not only far lesser resources as Bob is while an incredibly durable and strong, and Dexter was just a possessed doll while Moloch is a powerful demon, but also lesser screen time than Moloch due to Moloch physically appearing in Spooky Month 1, 2, 3, and 6, while Bob only appears in 1 and 5, and Dexter in 3, 4, and only in flashbacks in 6, while true Moloch is responsible for Dexter’s death that led to his spirit inhabiting a doll, preventing him from satisfying his urges to kill and leads to him trying to kill anyone he sees, this was incredibly indirect and unintentional on Moloch’s part.
External Links[]
- Moloch on the Villains Wiki.
- Moloch on the Spooky Month Wiki.
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