American Horror Story: Freak Show premiered Oct. 8, and this season looks to out
do all the rest. The fourth season is set in 1950s Jupiter, Fla., and is
focused around a traveling circus that features characters that are out
of the ordinary.
You may be thinking, “Wow, a horror show focused on a circus
and a has a terrifying clown -- how original.” But if you have seen seasons past you know that creator, Ryan Murphy, has a way of taking over-used horror themes and
turning them into something that is so shocking and genuinely scary that viewers
can’t seem to look away.
One of Murphy’s successful tactics to creating something
authentically horrifying in AHS is
adding a real element of humanity, taking real and dark human behavior and
showing his audiences how depraved mankind can be. In previous seasons, politically influenced topics such as mental illness, race and gender have all
been a central topic and were shaped into something that made viewers squirm and
unable to look away.
In the first episode, Freak
Show broke FX viewership records with its delightfully scary and disturbing
cast of characters under the circus tent. All of our favorite actors have
returned to the anthology series taking on new roles as the “freaks.” Our
favorite, Jessica Lange, is the ringleader Elsa Mars, who convinces
conjoined twins Bette and Dot, played by Sarah Paulson, to join her floundering
“Cabinet of Curiosities.” Already under her command are the bearded Kathy
Bates, lobster-handed Evan Peters and, soon to come, a three-breasted Angela
Bassett and Emma Roberts as a con-artist fortuneteller.
Also under Lange’s lead are some truly remarkable
characters. This season of AHS features
Mat Fraser as Paul, the illustrated Seal. Fraser was born with a real-life
condition known as phocomelia, as he describes in a short video released before
the shows premiere. Also featured in her own video, is Rose Siggins who plays
Legless Suzy. Siggins lost her legs because of a condition called sacral
agenesis, in which she was born with legs that are completely useless because
of a spine deformation.
This season features something truly horrify that viewers are not going to be able to un-see: Twisty, the clown. This
serial-killing monstrosity is going to give us nightmares this season and, spoiler alert -- he is not afraid of the daylight and likes to keep
people as pets or souvenirs. You thought Bloody Face was scary?
Nope. Murphy definitely outdid himself with this one.
So, ladies and gentlemen, let’s enjoy the Freak Show.
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