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Other reoccurring cast members include excellent turns from Angela Bassett, Jessica Lange and Kathie Bates who act their socks off as various larger than life characters. The plots are all twisting and turning and full of memorable and crazy characters. I will give a quick synopsis of each season but so much goes on in each of them that you need to see it for yourself really.
Murder House is your basic , (although it's far from basic really), haunted house story. A family moves into a house with a bloody past and have to suffer due to it's history both from the living and the spirits of the murderers and the victims that presided there.
Asylum, set in the 60's, is the story of a writer who goes into a run-down insane house for a story and ends up stuck there and sees all the deprivation and depravity that occurs within it's walls. It features subplots of mad doctors, possession and alien abduction of all things!! There is even a random big song and dance number that is truly surreal.
Coven tells of a school of witches that has existed in New Orleans since escaping there after fleeing from the Salem Witch trials and has a long and chequered history. The current small crop of students are a disparate lot with petty differences all looking to graduate. Their supreme witch returns suddenly to upset the status quo and to facilitate her own personal agenda.
Freak Show is set in the 50's and tells of a struggling travelling group of freaks and their trials and tribulations. There is murder afoot as well with 3 separate outside forces set on targeting people from the show and in the surrounding town. Foremost of these forces is a killer clown named Twisty.
The Hotel of the 5th season is inhabited with vampires and serial killers and their victims and ghosts of serial killers and their victims and a transgender bartender! Lady Gaga won awards playing as The Countess a vampires who lives in the penthouse.
Roanoke is the filming of a re-enactment of a haunting event for a TV programme called My Roanoke Nightmare. The cast filming the re-enactment are plagued by their own horrors similar to those that affected the people they're portraying. With cannibal locals, Celtic witch goddesses and ghostly residents of the historic Roanoke settlement hounding them they'll be lucky if they get out alive.
As horror goes it's not really overly gory or horrific I don't find, it's kind of teen level horror I'd say PG-13 or something but maybe I am numb to it after 40 odd years of watching horror movies. it's been a while since I watched it now but I'm pretty sure there's a fair bit of nudity so probably don't go showing it to your kids.
Most series run for 12/13 episodes and sometimes the stories do have a sense of being a little dragged out with extra elements seemingly thrown in to prolong the story but I don't mind that really as the over the top craziness is great fun as far as I'm concerned.
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This is another cool show that's well worth watching on Netflix. It has six seasons ready and waiting for your viewing pleasure. Each season is an ongoing story arc with a different horror tale to tell. In order the seasons are Murder House, Asylum, Coven, Freak Show, Hotel & Roanoke. It is unique show as far as I am aware as there is a regular ensemble cast over most of the seasons who play different roles from season to season. Only two of the cast have appeared in every season Evan Peters and Sarah Paulson, the latter was a medium in series 1, a gay writer consigned to an asylum in 2, the headmistress of a school for witches in 3, conjoined twins in 4, the ghost of a dead junkie in 5 and an actress starring in a documentary re-enactment show in 6. Series 7: Cult, which I am sure I heard is based on the US elections, has been released although it's not on Netflix yet. If it's anything like the 6 series I have seen so far it should prove to be most interesting and entertaining. Series 8 & 9 have also been confirmed and will be set in the future apparently!!
Murder House is your basic , (although it's far from basic really), haunted house story. A family moves into a house with a bloody past and have to suffer due to it's history both from the living and the spirits of the murderers and the victims that presided there.
Asylum, set in the 60's, is the story of a writer who goes into a run-down insane house for a story and ends up stuck there and sees all the deprivation and depravity that occurs within it's walls. It features subplots of mad doctors, possession and alien abduction of all things!! There is even a random big song and dance number that is truly surreal.
Coven tells of a school of witches that has existed in New Orleans since escaping there after fleeing from the Salem Witch trials and has a long and chequered history. The current small crop of students are a disparate lot with petty differences all looking to graduate. Their supreme witch returns suddenly to upset the status quo and to facilitate her own personal agenda.
Freak Show is set in the 50's and tells of a struggling travelling group of freaks and their trials and tribulations. There is murder afoot as well with 3 separate outside forces set on targeting people from the show and in the surrounding town. Foremost of these forces is a killer clown named Twisty.
The Hotel of the 5th season is inhabited with vampires and serial killers and their victims and ghosts of serial killers and their victims and a transgender bartender! Lady Gaga won awards playing as The Countess a vampires who lives in the penthouse.
Roanoke is the filming of a re-enactment of a haunting event for a TV programme called My Roanoke Nightmare. The cast filming the re-enactment are plagued by their own horrors similar to those that affected the people they're portraying. With cannibal locals, Celtic witch goddesses and ghostly residents of the historic Roanoke settlement hounding them they'll be lucky if they get out alive.
As horror goes it's not really overly gory or horrific I don't find, it's kind of teen level horror I'd say PG-13 or something but maybe I am numb to it after 40 odd years of watching horror movies. it's been a while since I watched it now but I'm pretty sure there's a fair bit of nudity so probably don't go showing it to your kids.
Most series run for 12/13 episodes and sometimes the stories do have a sense of being a little dragged out with extra elements seemingly thrown in to prolong the story but I don't mind that really as the over the top craziness is great fun as far as I'm concerned.
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