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American Horror Story: 1984 Trailer Reveals Cast and New Clues
There may be more to this summer camp slasher than it seems.
If you’re not bursting with anticipation about the next season of American Horror Story, maybe this latest promo will get you in the mood.
Show co-creator Ryan Murphy posted a teaser to his Instagram yesterday, giving us a little bit more insight into the world that will make up AHS: 1984.
The video gives us a first look into the upcoming cast — Emma Roberts as the girl-next-door, Gus Kenworthy as the jock, Billie Lourd as the tough-as-nails rebel. And some other members of the cast make appearances as well: Cody Fern, DeRon Horton, Leslie Grossman, Matthew Morrison, Angelica Ross, and more, including John Carroll Lynch definitely dressed up to look like the creepy slick-coat-wearing killer.
Not too much is known about 1984 just yet, as is so often the case with upcoming American Horror Story seasons, the information carefully unrolled as we draw closer to the premiere date.
We do know that the season appears to be set in the 1980s at some sort of sleepaway camp, and the previous teaser shows a crazed killer hunting teens with a giant knife, as one does in the ‘80s at a sleepaway camp.
But “appears” may be the key word here. If you watch this new set of videos closely, you’ll notice tape put down on the floor of each scene, a mark the actors are supposed to hit to be positioned correctly for the camera. It may just be an oversight, a Starbucks cup in Westeros moment, but the fact that it’s still there in every shot where the floor is visible suggests an alternative theory. Rather than being a slasher show TV series, is this a TV series about people making a slasher movie that goes terribly wrong?
It wouldn’t be the first time for AHS to go all show-within-a-show on us, with the Roanoke season being first a true-crime retelling of supernatural events and later a confusing jumble of the “real people” and the actors that played them on the show within a show getting thrown into a house together for another reality show…on our show.
We’ll probably have to wait til September 18 to find out, but either way, there’s always a twist of some sort with American Horror Story, no matter how confusing or sometimes nonsensical. And better yet, there's always, always, always some gay.
Rachel Kiley is presumably a writer and definitely not a terminator. She can usually be found crying over queerbaiting in the Pitch Perfect franchise or on Twitter, if not both.
Rachel Kiley is presumably a writer and definitely not a terminator. She can usually be found crying over queerbaiting in the Pitch Perfect franchise or on Twitter, if not both.
