Meet Mr. Jingles, American Horror Story: 1984's masked slasher, in the season's first full trailer
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Well, you can’t say Ryan Murphy hasn’t done his homework. The upcoming American Horror Story: 1984 has been teased with a slew of neon, ‘80s-aping teasers, but today FX dropped the first full trailer for the ninth season of the uneven, if wildly popular, anthology series. And, yeah, everything’s here: The teen archetypes, the slasher lore, the Texas Chainsaw Massacre-style van, and even the wise, doomsaying gas station attendant, here played by the great Don Swayze. “You’re all gonna die,” he bluntly tells them.
We also learn the name of the season’s slasher in a scene that feels plucked directly from Halloween. “Mr. Jingles,” intones a man who looks suspiciously like Donald Pleasance, thus forcing us to imagine an unholy blend of Michael Myers and that mouse from The Green Mile. No, as you can see below, the killer more so evokes the hooded killer from I Know What You Did Last Summer. Not an ‘80s reference, that, but we’ll take it.
The massive cast includes the likes of Billie Lourd, John Carroll Lynch, Leslie Grossman, Cody Fern,, Emma Roberts, and Matthew Morrison’s big dong.
The season drops its knife on September 18.
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My Ryan Murphy Stockholm Syndrome already ensured that I was going to watch the hell out of this, but the promise of more Billie Lourd is just icing on the cake.
Unbelievable that this airs in little more than 3 weeks and they’re STILL shooting. I hope everyone is prepared for an absolute shit-show of a season.
I think that’s been the case since at least Freak Show, they film partially concurrent with the airing season. I remember an old commenter here who worked on set and talked about how everyone was sick and miserable and just wanted to go home during Freak Show well into November. And knowing Murphy, the story will probably change 3 or 4 times between now and the premiere.
Yeah, this was all news to me. I’m tangentially connected to this season’s set (thank god I’m not working it) and it has sounded like an absolute clusterfuck. And it’s not like Murphy is actively on set or anything. Why you would do this to your crew/post team is beyond me, but it probably says a lot about how insane some of these multiple-order showrunners’ schedules must be. That said, I’d gather if anyone is to blame for this breakneck shoot-to-air schedule, it’s probably Murphy. FX execs seem pretty cool as far as cable goes, and we don’t see Donald Glover working multiple units shooting episode one of an Atlanta season a month before it airs. Just thinking about the logistics of that turnaround gives me heart palpitations.
Murphy always shoots like that (outside of Netflix) and it’s not unusual for other similar shows either. The Good Fight is another example…
“Unbelievable that this airs in little more than 3 weeks and they’re STILL shooting.”
Yup. Unbelievable. Unless you know literally anything about TV production.
I work in TV production and that’s a ridiculous turnaround, dipshit.
I gave up on this show forever last season when he brought back Stevie Nicks to bring the show to a grinding halt with one of her performances
It would make for a better villain if Mr. Jingles were this guy:
https://gcemetery.co/mr-jingles-notification-widget/
This show is dumb. This season will be dumb. I will watch every episode, as I have every previous episode. None of it will make sense. I will have a good time.
The last two seasons really tested my patience, but I’m still here, ready to scarf it down like the fool that I am.
I usually enjoy the first few episodes, then I start to hate it, then I start to hate myself for continuing watching it, then I tell myself to just stop watching it and I do. Sometimes I make it to the end.
It’ll start out interesting, then take a left turn, then it’ll go off the tracks and fall into a black hole, swirl around a bit and make zero sense ultimately pissing me off. I’ll be annoyed that instead of following a story line it’s gets all ‘artsy and weird’ and wonder if maybe I’m just too soft in the head to get what they are actually trying to do. I’ll say the same thing I say every year “but the first episode was so good, surely it’ll come back to that again….” and like you, will have a good time.
::yawn::
This is a very poorly edited trailer! Aping on the style from the time period or not, it’s just bad.
I checked out when Lady Gaga raped Schmidt with a power drill in Hotel. Haven’t been back. This show is kinda lame.
I know it is set in the 80s, but this is actually giving me 90s horror movie vibes (Urban Legend, I Know What You Did Last Summer), since the ‘whodunit’ mysteries were more of a 90s trend than an 80s trend, where the killers’ identities were known (which is why they became so iconic).
Guess SJW ways ruined another one.. Zero interest.