The Voorhees vibes are strong in this goofy American Horror Story: 1984 teaser
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American Horror Story tends to approach the bugnuts ultraviolence of its seasons with a soapy, overwrought seriousness, so the silly, self-aware teasers for its upcoming 1984 season have us optimistic that this next outing could actually be, well, fun. Its latest clip, which introduces us to its Camp Redwood setting, lands somewhere between the slash-happy Friday The 13th franchise and the satirical exuberance of Wet Hot American Summer, its too-cool teens getting terrorized by a masked, knife-wielding slasher who’s perhaps a bit too good at hiding beneath moving cars and committing perfectly staged maritime homicides.
Emma Roberts, Billie Lourd, Cody Fern, John Carroll Lynch, Leslie Grossman, and a huge-dicked Matthew Morrison star in the season, which FX will premiere on September 18.
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The more I see of this, the more I wish we were just getting another season of Scream Queens instead.
I’m still disappointed with how this series has turned out. The quality has fallen off a cliff since about season 3. And I hate that they have tied all the seasons together. Originally it was a good anthology series.
They’ve landed on some random concepts in the past, but this…actually looks like a bloody good time
Plus they don’t have that much to live up too. The Friday the 13th movies are not that great to begin with.
The first couple were great fun – then things got silly, fun again, then REALLY silly.
I wanted this way before the last two seasons we got. And bonus points for utilization of Eddy and the Cruisers “hit”
Even better application of Suddenly Last Summer. The Motels are pretty damn 80s.
What is Hollywood’s fascination with the 1980’s? At this point I feel like that decade has been done to death.
It felt old by the last regular season of Psych. It was weird when The Goldbergs premiered forever ago. The fact that “1980s in 2010s” is a trend that seems to keep multiplying is weird. It’s not all bad. But it is weird.
Hollywood’s fascination with the ‘80s (and ‘90s) today is no different from its fascination with the ‘50s and ‘60s back when those decades were underway, once the Baby Boomers got old enough that they’d be willing to spend money on reliving their childhoods and teenage years. The nostalgic pandering in pop culture was just as prevalent then, and indeed, it eventually got overturned by younger generations for whom the ‘50s and ‘60s were ancient history… only for them to repeat the cycle with their nostalgia for the ‘80s and ‘90s.Bob Chipman actually brought this up in a recent he did on Stranger Things. He noted that a lot of the ‘80s pop culture that that show is rooted in is itself heavily informed by ‘50s nostalgia, specifically pointing to the Amblin-style “kids on bikes” family adventure films of the decade as being, essentially, throwbacks to the Hardy Boys novels, Our Gang shorts, adventure comics, and monster movies that their own creators grew up reading and watching in the ‘50s.
Between the diversity of music, arts, television, fashion, technology, social barriers being challenged if not outright broken through: The 1980s is likely the most culturally influential decade of our time. That’s the reason.
Because it was a colorful, somewhat goofy time (with a dash of overhanging Cold War paranoia) that no one under 30 was alive to see, and under 40 barely remembers. Meanwhile people over those ages are nostalgic for it because they were kids.