Horror series, there were quite a few, but mostly because they ran on the major networks, the makers in particular area had very withhold or drifted right into the camp from Comedy. Since AHS (American Horror Story) but is produced by a small cable network, which among other things. already with Sons of Anarchy, Justified or currently having to prove the strain and Fargo was able to more freedom and better television means the creators of each agent is disclosed herein in the audience for horror, shock and disgust to worry.
Accordingly, the series is rather liberally with the themes of violence, horror and sex in order. And although she is not always graphically clearly and also some grants the Kopfkino the viewer, the images are still very forcefully.
Story
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The series begins harmless enough. The Harmons, a family that tries cope with the tragic miscarriage of the mother and the father of fornication, moves with her child from the East Coast to Los Angeles in a small charming stone old house. Quite early noted not only the daughter that something is wrong with the house. The disabled neighbor's child prophesied the tragic family, the housekeeper makes even me as a spectator icy shiver run down his back and a psychopathic patient the father befriends the daughter to punish her classmates.
Without giving too much to spoil it's not possible here continue to write about the history and since the series lives of the surprises I renounce more details. What else can I write is quite fast moves the house in the center of the series. And so then tell some of the episodes in Rüclblicken what happened in the house in the last decades ...
Conclusion
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AHS tried to create almost impossible to let go in horror series. What works well in Crime and Thriller area, represents the makers in the horror series before real trouble. Just at the beginning of American Horror Story is also in accordance with bumpy, often jumps a little too much and creates, in spite of some very drastic conditions for television images, not to conceal. But I like that the series does not run quite round. This makes them more likeable than some slick show and you have the creators already alone pay tribute for the trial. On top of the AHS visually has a wonderful central theme (such jumps for example, often the image as if an old 8mm film pasted reassembled) and some has deliberately chosen not in the 12 episodes of the first season some 90 years since construction the house cover. The fans immensely.
Is American Horror Story a series revelation? Maybe yes, maybe no, but it is at least very good, exciting entertainment that will take care of some creepy moments. 5 stars for the first season, which is terrific, especially towards the end.