The theme for the upcoming season of American Horror Story has been revealed!
The ninth season will continue the one word tradition set by its last seven predecessors and be called American Horror Story: 1984.
But rather than appearing to have anything to do with the Orwellian nightmare that year invokes, it looks like the season will have more to do with the woods.
Although, knowing AHS, it very well could find a way to include both an ‘80s-style slasher storyline and a dystopian science fiction scenario.
The teaser trailer released on Ryan Murphy’s Instagram this morning features a girl running frightened through the woods from a slow moving killer wearing a trench coat and wielding a knife. She makes it into a cabin in what is surely the middle of nowhere, but of course the killer catches up…
Not too much else is known about the new season yet, other than that Emma Roberts, who led Murphy’s tragically short-lived Scream Queens series will be returning, and Gus Kenworthy will be playing her boyfriend. However, we’ll undoubtedly see a slew of more familiar faces in the upcoming season as well.
American Horror Story has never shied away from the inclusion of queer characters, even when the storylines are set in times when LGBTQ people often had to hide who they were. So if this is going to give us a queer-inclusionary version of the ‘80s slasher movies we never got, we are ready for it. Especially if it’s, dare I say it, set at a summer camp. (RIP Dead of Summer, your inclusivity will not be forgotten.)
