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American Horror Story mixes creeping dread with lurid shocks, graphic violence and a deliberately over-the-top sense of horror. Ghosts, killers and supernatural threats share space with macabre ensemble drama, while sudden twists turn each season’s mystery in new directions. The campy tone lets grotesque spectacle and psychological unease coexist, rather than keeping the scares quiet or restrained.
A recurring ensemble takes on wildly different roles as each season begins a separate story in a new setting. An asylum, a struggling hotel or a summer camp brings its own dangers and body count. Within those changing worlds, infidelity, addiction and exploitation give the horror a human cost: relationships deteriorate, vulnerable people face abuse, and physical threats compound psychological distress.
campy nightmare horror, graphic supernatural scares and Drama
Drama and Mystery
Season 13 · 13 episodes
FX
Physical and psychological horrors affect a decomposing family, workers and residents of an insane asylum, a coven of witches, a cast of circus freaks, the employees and guests at a struggling hotel, a family who moved into a mysterious farmhouse, the members of a small suburb in Michigan, the surviving members of the Apocalypse and the counselors of a creepy summer camp in this haunting anthology series, focusing on the themes of infidelity, sanity, oppression, discrimination, addiction and exploitation.
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