New season of AFS brings new horrors
October 12, 2015
The newest season of hit series “American Horror Story” gives horror new meanings.
The much-anticipated premier of the fifth season of AHS has checked in. Taking place at the Cortez Hotel in Florida, this season has already taken turns and angles more daring than the previous ones.
Replacing the beloved Jessica Lange, who has starred in all previous seasons, Lady Gaga took her wild career to the next level. Obviously an inexperienced actress, Gaga is shockingly better than expected at her role as “The Countess Elizabeth.” Although part of this can be explained by how much the show in general relates to the outlandish styles of her music videos and personality, she has still added much to portraying and bringing to life her vampiric character.
Despite the introduction of Gaga as a main character, and the exit of Lange, creators Brad Falchuk and Ryan Murphy still remained confident with how far they can go in the disturbing fictions of the show. With a multitude of gore and new methods of striking nausea to the viewing audience, very few people will be able to stomach through the first episode.
Although hosting typical horror flick clichés, such as mysterious hands and an overflow of blood, this installment is showing to be an intriguing and highly disturbing season. With a family suffering the disappearance of their son to add to the fictional world of Gaga’s sexually driven vampire pack, this season has provided a high increased in sexually gruesome scenes and terrors of reality.
Adding to that, Falchuk and Murphy have started showing more obvious connections between each season with a dog and a realtor. The terror and gore that is the defining point of the AHS series has only just started to unravel exactly what brings each of the circumstances together, and what the true origin of an American Horror is.