Thursday, September 29, 2011

American Horror Story or Horrible American Story?

      A few months back, I was lying down, flipping through the endless minutiae of late-night cable.  After deciding that watching Iron Chef America was entirely too torturous, I came across something that caught my attention.  No, no, not the Shake Weight commercial, you pervert.  It was an FX commercial for a very peculiar show: a serialized, horror drama.  Confusion abounded.  As much as it excited me, could it work?  Would it be approachable enough to garner a loyal audience?  Alas, these questions are yet to be answered.    
      
       FX has continued to air mysterious ads, each of which confuses me all the more.  To me, the biggest challenge is proposed by keeping the tension and the fear throughout a series like this.  It's not like a movie, in which you can build to a spine-tingling climax after the gratuitous shrieks and scares along the way.      
       
       Secondly, as all of us battle-tested horror lovers have learned, "horror" and "great story" don't often live in the same neighborhood these days.  Hell, they don't even call each other on holidays anymore!  Sorry, got a little off-topic there.  Apologies, dominus.  Woops! Wrong show. Uhhhhh yea, where was I?  Oh yea, this is the part where I hand it over to you for discussion.  So what do you think?  Can it succeed in making us pee our pants on a weekly basis?  Or will it get the classic half season and Rest. In. Peace?(**Yes, that was an Undertaker reference.**)  


               He REALLY wants it to succeed.  Would you really want to piss this guy off?


    Sound off below and be sure to watch the 90-min premiere of American Horror Story October 5 @ 10PM on FX.

                                             Is it wrong that this got me excited???          
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  1. Tom I.September 30, 2011 at 5:59 PM

    Heh, I like the title. I haven't really been following this other than seeing a few of the vague commercials that call back some famous horror movies such as The Exorcist and Halloween in the music.

    I don't know how a show like this would work in a TV format. Not only do you have to somehow keep the tension building week to week, but also keep the tension between commercials (FX has commercials, right?). If they show the killer right behind the sexy lead actress right about to kill her, and then jump to a commercial for Old Spice, that tension suddenly disappears, and it's no longer scary.

    I guess only time will tell on this one.

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