Ryan Murphy shared an American Horror Story teaser image, let's make wild guesses about its meaning
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The next season of American Horror Story—the show’s 10th—will feature Sarah Paulson and Macaulay Culkin, plus Evan Peters, Kathy Bates, Billie Lourd, Lily Rabe, Finn Wittrock, Leslie Grossman, Angelica Ross, and Adina Porter. It will air on FX at some point in the future, it will involve scary stuff that is also kind of tongue-in-cheek and playfully cheesy, and that… is really all we know. Today, though, series creator Ryan Murphy posted a teaser image on Instagram, and it tells us so much more about what to expect.
Alright, it tells us nothing, so let’s just have some fun with it and make some guesses about what the hook will be this year. But first, let’s break down exactly what we’re seeing: Two hands on the edge of some kind of cliff with a gloomy sky and endless ocean behind them. It’s important to note that the hands aren’t necessarily connected to anything, and it’s also interesting that they’re not just on the ground. We know the hands aren’t coming out of a grave, for one thing, which must be a big hint. So here’s what we’ve got:
–American Horror Story: The Lighthouse: Two angry and lonely men scream at each other about lobsters for three episodes. Then witches show up and it turns out that they’re in the future.
–American Horror Story: Hands: Two hands (Paulson and Peters) crawl through the woods, looking for stuff to grab, like a serial killer riding one of those penny-farthings. Episode five is the penny-farthing’s backstory, and it involves a lot of Christian rock music.
–American Horror Story: Pilgrims: This looks a little New England-y, which makes us think of pilgrims. But they kind of did that already, huh? Okay, skip this one.
–American Horror Story: Plastic Surgery Office: Two hot-shot surgeons juggle the pressures of running their office, maintaining their relationships, and trying to sleep with all of their patients. A serial killer shows up eventually.
–American Horror Story: Eat Pray Love: Did you know Ryan Murphy directed that? He’s done so many weird things, it seems surprising that he would make that fairly un-weird movie.
–American Horror Story: Cliff Crawl: A pair of hands… climb up a cliff and… You know, this is harder than it seems, as always. Hey, maybe it’ll be about that weird monster that washed up on a shore a few years ago? We don’t have a snappy name for that, though, other than something like American Horror Story: Beach Monster. Feel free to make better guesses in the comments.
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american horror story: lindsay lohan’s beach club
It’s gonna be mermaids yall
We’ve got Macauley Culkin. We’ve got someone climbing up from a cliff. Could this be the Good Son sequel we’ve all been waiting for?!
American Horror Story: 2 Good 2 Son
That’s a fanmade poster. It was posted on Reddit last week. The font isn’t even the official font. Ryan must’ve really liked it.
American Horror Story: Reddit
American Horror Story: Goddamned Seagulls
I would watch that
Plastic Surgery Office sounds too much like a show Ryan Murphy would actually do. They’d make us watch gross surgeries. Then sex scenes inspired by Crash (the real one, from 1996). He could really play around with that if he wanted to.
I mean,
I never watched Murphy’sNip/Tuck, but I’m pretty confident in starting that’s the exact premise of Nip/Tuck.
The joke is that he already did that.
“The real one”. Nice.
That’s because he already DID make that show. It’s called Nip/Tuck..
American Horror Story: SurvivorMacaulay Culkin plays the Jeff Probst-like host of a survivor-style game show in which contestants are brought to an island to compete for cash and prizes. The catch is that instead of voting people off, the contestants must kill off one of their own each week or risk having the host (Culkin) choose for them. The surprise is that the island isn’t exactly deserted, or even an island at all.
Time Lord cosplay.
You’re doing it right.
This season will be about……4 episodes too long and will forget its original premise 2 episodes in lololol.Jk. Actually enjoyed the past couple of seasons I watched (Roanoke and 1984).
AHS: Tough Mudder
Maybe they are finally tackling Lovecraftian cosmic horror with that “wash up on shore” comment?Or it’s about pirates. Who doesn’t love pirates?
Beach Monster? American Horror Story: Montauk is right there!
YOU’RE ALL WRONG.AMERICAN HORROR STORY: MANOS, HANDS OF FATE
Ah, a man can dream…
So can a girl. Check out this dreamboat!
Trying to attach a picture of Torgo, but doesn’t appear to be working??https://news.avclub.com/read-this-the-battle-over-the-infamous-cult-classic-ma-1798284742
I made the mistake of watching the prequel.That was… disheartening.
Ugh, from the trailer, my only reaction is: trying too hard to be bad! Like so many people in the first round of American Idol.
Hands crawling up a cliffside + Macaulay Culkin = the long-awaited sequel to The Good SonAmerican Horror Story 10: The Better Son
my gut reaction is: American Horror Story: Shipwrecked
American Horror Story: Noir (I had a gut James M Cain reaction.. spouse murdered for insurance money is alive, think Blood Simple or The Postman Always Rings Twice)
American Horror Story: Cape CodAmerican Horror Story: Vikings.. some sort of early Nordic contactAmerican Horror Story: Algonquin Round Table – witty 1920s types are on vacation on an island and things go south..