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Post by klaine on Aug 19, 2016 3:08:40 GMT
Murder. Madness. Magic. Misfits. Mayhem. Mystery.
The sixth season of FX's horror anthology series American Horror Story premieres September 14, and despite it being only one month away the theme of the season has yet to be revealed by the network or the showrunners. Fans have been speculating on what the sixth season's theme could be ever since the conclusion of season five, Hotel, but even the abundance of promo trailers released by FX on their YouTube channel has not brought anyone closer to definitively figuring out the theme.
It appears that FX has been releasing a few red herring promos among the real season promos in order to keep the theme under wraps until a planned big reveal prior to the premiere. While some promo trailers hint at season six leaning towards B-movie horror, others suggest that the season will take an approach closer to the small-town scare aesthetic made popular by films such as the Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) and House of Wax (1953).
What do you think the theme for season six of AHS will be? Do you believe some promo trailers are designed to lead fans astray from the real theme, or are all of these distinctly different trailers somehow tied together? Discuss your theories on this thread!
All currently released trailers for AHS S6 below the spoiler warning. Horizontal scrollbar will appear at the bottom of this post upon clicking the spoiler warning, allowing you to see each promo trailer fully.Sunset Stroll (July 28)
Descent (July 28)
Milli Crossing (July 28)
The Mist (August 12)
The Shadow (August 13)
Blind Date (August 15)
The Visitors (August 18)
Bite Sized (August 20)
| What's Cooking? (July 28)
Lullaby (July 28)
Post Op (July 28)
Wind Chimes (August 13)
Camp Sight (August 14)
The Harvest (August 18)
Anthology (August 19)
Self Preservation (August 21)
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Post by skankquinn on Aug 20, 2016 5:14:36 GMT
I have a couple guesses.
There is definitely a small town horror/Southern Gothic vibe to the promos. I'm especially reminded of Children of the Corn with the scythes and the fields. In CotC, a young couple are on a road trip and end up in a small town in Nebraska. Other horror movies utilize the road-trip-from-hell trope, too, so maybe that's where they're going with this? Some unlucky folks get stuck in East Jesus Nowhere, USA?
Only one of the promos really supports my next theory (and there might be some wishful thinking on my part as well), but maybe something having to do with the making of a horror film? Kind of like the movie Shadow of the Vampire which is a highly fictionalized version of the making of 1922's Nosferatu? Like, the crew tries to shoot a small town horror film on location and all hell breaks loose?
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Post by klaine on Aug 20, 2016 20:55:38 GMT
I have a couple guesses. There is definitely a small town horror/Southern Gothic vibe to the promos. I'm especially reminded of Children of the Corn with the scythes and the fields. In CotC, a young couple are on a road trip and end up in a small town in Nebraska. Other horror movies utilize the road-trip-from-hell trope, too, so maybe that's where they're going with this? Some unlucky folks get stuck in East Jesus Nowhere, USA? Only one of the promos really supports my next theory (and there might be some wishful thinking on my part as well), but maybe something having to do with the making of a horror film? Kind of like the movie Shadow of the Vampire which is a highly fictionalized version of the making of 1922's Nosferatu? Like, the crew tries to shoot a small town horror film on location and all hell breaks loose? i don't know how true this is but i keep hearing about how s6 is supposed to be set in the present (i don't remember if that was confirmed by ryan murphy ages ago or if it's just word of mouth on the internet) so that would work for either of those theories but probably especially the road trip one. i would think (judging from the blind date promo) that a road-trip-from-hell would be better suited to present day. but if i'm completely wrong and it's not in present day i would be down to clown with a season set in the 40-50's about shooting a horror movie. the juxtaposition of the super bright, fun aesthetic of a carnival with the goreyness of AHS was one of the things that made freak show my favorite so that would be cool for s6! |
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Post by Frandae on Aug 20, 2016 21:39:02 GMT
I have a couple guesses. There is definitely a small town horror/Southern Gothic vibe to the promos. I'm especially reminded of Children of the Corn with the scythes and the fields. In CotC, a young couple are on a road trip and end up in a small town in Nebraska. Other horror movies utilize the road-trip-from-hell trope, too, so maybe that's where they're going with this? Some unlucky folks get stuck in East Jesus Nowhere, USA? Only one of the promos really supports my next theory (and there might be some wishful thinking on my part as well), but maybe something having to do with the making of a horror film? Kind of like the movie Shadow of the Vampire which is a highly fictionalized version of the making of 1922's Nosferatu? Like, the crew tries to shoot a small town horror film on location and all hell breaks loose? i don't know how true this is but i keep hearing about how s6 is supposed to be set in the present (i don't remember if that was confirmed by ryan murphy ages ago or if it's just word of mouth on the internet) so that would work for either of those theories but probably especially the road trip one. i would think (judging from the blind date promo) that a road-trip-from-hell would be better suited to present day. but if i'm completely wrong and it's not in present day i would be down to clown with a season set in the 40-50's about shooting a horror movie. the juxtaposition of the super bright, fun aesthetic of a carnival with the goreyness of AHS was one of the things that made freak show my favorite so that would be cool for s6! I read somewhere that it was in present day but it will have flashbacks too! But I don't know for sure; maybe Ryan changed of idea; who knows lmao I'm guessing that is a TV/Movie set where murders happen and they have something to do with something that happened in the past you know? Like we all are filming this and suddenly boom someone is dead; and people starts dying just like in a random, weird and creepy old legend; at least thats my guess from the promos/teasers and pics |
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Post by klaine on Aug 20, 2016 21:44:55 GMT
i don't know how true this is but i keep hearing about how s6 is supposed to be set in the present (i don't remember if that was confirmed by ryan murphy ages ago or if it's just word of mouth on the internet) so that would work for either of those theories but probably especially the road trip one. i would think (judging from the blind date promo) that a road-trip-from-hell would be better suited to present day. but if i'm completely wrong and it's not in present day i would be down to clown with a season set in the 40-50's about shooting a horror movie. the juxtaposition of the super bright, fun aesthetic of a carnival with the goreyness of AHS was one of the things that made freak show my favorite so that would be cool for s6! I read somewhere that it was in present day but it will have flashbacks too! But I don't know for sure; maybe Ryan changed of idea; who knows lmao I'm guessing that is a TV/Movie set where murders happen and they have something to do with something that happened in the past you know? Like we all are filming this and suddenly boom someone is dead; and people starts dying just like in a random, weird and creepy old legend; at least thats my guess from the promos/teasers and pics yeah this is the feeling i have too! if not a movie making plot then for sure it must be the equivalent of a texas chainsaw massacre tv show lol. they have teaser promos showing alien abduction but... idk there's only one so it might be a red herring. then again blind date is the only one that specifically leans towards 1950's horror movie production. |
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Post by skankquinn on Aug 20, 2016 22:14:34 GMT
Yeah, who knows with RMurphs, lol. Up to this point every season has either taken place in the past or has taken place in the present with flashbacks that inform the main narrative, right? I kind of doubt that the showrunners would do a completely in-the-present season; by now they have a tried-and-true formula that utilizes in-universe connections and American folklore, history, and urban legends to frame their story lines. Of course, AHS is nothing if not risk-taking, so I could be very wrong.
I would personally love another season with a main narrative that takes place in the past. I'm still holding out for a season that takes place in the late 1800s-early 1900s after we got a taste of it with the Axeman subplot in Coven.
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Post by klaine on Aug 20, 2016 22:59:40 GMT
Yeah, who knows with RMurphs, lol. Up to this point every season has either taken place in the past or has taken place in the present with flashbacks that inform the main narrative, right? I kind of doubt that the showrunners would do a completely in-the-present season; by now they have a tried-and-true formula that utilizes in-universe connections and American folklore, history, and urban legends to frame their story lines. Of course, AHS is nothing if not risk-taking, so I could be very wrong. I would personally love another season with a main narrative that takes place in the past. I'm still holding out for a season that takes place in the late 1800s-early 1900s after we got a taste of it with the Axeman subplot in Coven. yeah honestly i'm not a big fan of present-day AHS. coven was a weak season and that was primarily present day, murder house was a good, strong season but not really one of my favs... asylum i loved, freak show i loved, hotel i did like a lot but it did have its weak points (my favorite parts of hotel tended to be flashbacks lol). |
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Post by skankquinn on Aug 21, 2016 1:25:14 GMT
Yeah, who knows with RMurphs, lol. Up to this point every season has either taken place in the past or has taken place in the present with flashbacks that inform the main narrative, right? I kind of doubt that the showrunners would do a completely in-the-present season; by now they have a tried-and-true formula that utilizes in-universe connections and American folklore, history, and urban legends to frame their story lines. Of course, AHS is nothing if not risk-taking, so I could be very wrong. I would personally love another season with a main narrative that takes place in the past. I'm still holding out for a season that takes place in the late 1800s-early 1900s after we got a taste of it with the Axeman subplot in Coven. yeah honestly i'm not a big fan of present-day AHS. coven was a weak season and that was primarily present day, murder house was a good, strong season but not really one of my favs... asylum i loved, freak show i loved, hotel i did like a lot but it did have its weak points (my favorite parts of hotel tended to be flashbacks lol). Haha, we definitely have some differences of opinion: Murder House is my favorite and Asylum is my least favorite. I totally agree about Coven, Freak Show, and Hotel (except for the 1920s parts; the silent era enthusiast part of me hated it) though, so we're mostly on the same page. |
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Post by klaine on Aug 21, 2016 1:39:36 GMT
yeah honestly i'm not a big fan of present-day AHS. coven was a weak season and that was primarily present day, murder house was a good, strong season but not really one of my favs... asylum i loved, freak show i loved, hotel i did like a lot but it did have its weak points (my favorite parts of hotel tended to be flashbacks lol). Haha, we definitely have some differences of opinion: Murder House is my favorite and Asylum is my least favorite. I totally agree about Coven, Freak Show, and Hotel (except for the 1920s parts; the silent era enthusiast part of me hated it) though, so we're mostly on the same page. i mean don't get me wrong murder house has a LOT of good aspects but i got so turned off by the whole violate romanticizing. much like doctor who it's the fandom that turned me off of it (yikes). |
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Post by skankquinn on Aug 21, 2016 3:28:28 GMT
Haha, we definitely have some differences of opinion: Murder House is my favorite and Asylum is my least favorite. I totally agree about Coven, Freak Show, and Hotel (except for the 1920s parts; the silent era enthusiast part of me hated it) though, so we're mostly on the same page. i mean don't get me wrong murder house has a LOT of good aspects but i got so turned off by the whole violate romanticizing. much like doctor who it's the fandom that turned me off of it (yikes). I feel you. Like, I cared about what happened to Violet and Tate—I think the writers did a good job of getting the audience invested in their relationship before taking a sledgehammer to it—but the romanticizing a lot of fans did/do of Violate as well as Tate's character in general was decidedly Yikes. |
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Post by klaine on Aug 21, 2016 3:54:13 GMT
i mean don't get me wrong murder house has a LOT of good aspects but i got so turned off by the whole violate romanticizing. much like doctor who it's the fandom that turned me off of it (yikes). I feel you. Like, I cared about what happened to Violet and Tate—I think the writers did a good job of getting the audience invested in their relationship before taking a sledgehammer to it—but the romanticizing a lot of fans did/do of Violate as well as Tate's character in general was decidedly Yikes. YES THIS this is exactly what i'm talking about. i love that they set them up to be the ~ahs otp~ and then broke it down to pieces, but a lot of fans stayed stuck in that ~ahs otp~ mentality. i don't hate the violate relationship in general because i think it was a neat storyline but i hate the way people treat it. i probably would enjoy murder house a lot more if i rewatched it today and saw it through a fresh pair of eyes but it has that bad aftertaste for me currently. |
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Post by parspy on Aug 21, 2016 15:49:16 GMT
I feel you. Like, I cared about what happened to Violet and Tate—I think the writers did a good job of getting the audience invested in their relationship before taking a sledgehammer to it—but the romanticizing a lot of fans did/do of Violate as well as Tate's character in general was decidedly Yikes. YES THIS this is exactly what i'm talking about. i love that they set them up to be the ~ahs otp~ and then broke it down to pieces, but a lot of fans stayed stuck in that ~ahs otp~ mentality. i don't hate the violate relationship in general because i think it was a neat storyline but i hate the way people treat it. i probably would enjoy murder house a lot more if i rewatched it today and saw it through a fresh pair of eyes but it has that bad aftertaste for me currently. I keep meaning to go back and watch Murder House again - when it was airing, none of us knew this was a self-contained story, and that's part of how they got us - I assumed SOMEONE had to survive. I've found that each season I've watched, I've been kinda ehhh about while watching but manage to find something to love by the end. They usually conclude in satisfying (and admittedly upsetting) ways. Freak Show was a big exception for me - the massacre was too much for me to recover from, and I haven't seen Hotel yet (I don't see them til they land on Netflix). I'm not sure I'll keep with the show, tbh though. Freak Show kind of broke me. |
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Post by klaine on Aug 21, 2016 20:24:40 GMT
YES THIS this is exactly what i'm talking about. i love that they set them up to be the ~ahs otp~ and then broke it down to pieces, but a lot of fans stayed stuck in that ~ahs otp~ mentality. i don't hate the violate relationship in general because i think it was a neat storyline but i hate the way people treat it. i probably would enjoy murder house a lot more if i rewatched it today and saw it through a fresh pair of eyes but it has that bad aftertaste for me currently. I keep meaning to go back and watch Murder House again - when it was airing, none of us knew this was a self-contained story, and that's part of how they got us - I assumed SOMEONE had to survive. I've found that each season I've watched, I've been kinda ehhh about while watching but manage to find something to love by the end. They usually conclude in satisfying (and admittedly upsetting) ways. Freak Show was a big exception for me - the massacre was too much for me to recover from, and I haven't seen Hotel yet (I don't see them til they land on Netflix). I'm not sure I'll keep with the show, tbh though. Freak Show kind of broke me. i never thought about that before but you have a good point! the one and only time i watched MH was when it aired for the first time so i had different expectations about it as a multi-season plot vs. an anthology format. i agree about freak show, it was kind of weirdly too dark, even for AHS. i still think it was really artistically beautiful and has a great aesthetic but some of it was... too much, yeah. hotel is tamer than freak show i think. it's more explicitly sexual but less disturbing imo. |
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Post by skankquinn on Aug 21, 2016 21:13:09 GMT
YES THIS this is exactly what i'm talking about. i love that they set them up to be the ~ahs otp~ and then broke it down to pieces, but a lot of fans stayed stuck in that ~ahs otp~ mentality. i don't hate the violate relationship in general because i think it was a neat storyline but i hate the way people treat it. i probably would enjoy murder house a lot more if i rewatched it today and saw it through a fresh pair of eyes but it has that bad aftertaste for me currently. I keep meaning to go back and watch Murder House again - when it was airing, none of us knew this was a self-contained story, and that's part of how they got us - I assumed SOMEONE had to survive. I've found that each season I've watched, I've been kinda ehhh about while watching but manage to find something to love by the end. They usually conclude in satisfying (and admittedly upsetting) ways. Freak Show was a big exception for me - the massacre was too much for me to recover from, and I haven't seen Hotel yet (I don't see them til they land on Netflix). I'm not sure I'll keep with the show, tbh though. Freak Show kind of broke me. I didn't get into AHS until Coven, so I ended up watching the seasons (excluding Hotel as it hadn't aired yet) out of order. As a result, I watched Murder House last and was blown away. I immediately understood why some of the AHS fans I follow on Tumblr were disappointed with subsequent seasons (although their opinions of Freak Show were more favorable). I think MH just did a better job of balancing story and characters without getting frustratingly clunky with subplots that didn't go anywhere. I liked FS for its period setting, the numerous references to the movie Freaks, and its general theme of Who Are the Real Monsters?, but it was a very... upsetting season, wasn't it? Like, you don't expect AHS to be a jaunty walk in the park, but you really were just assaulted in the feels with some of the story arcs. I found Penny's bastard father and Pepper's story to be especially upsetting. And then, of course, body horror to the max. |
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Post by parspy on Aug 21, 2016 21:34:01 GMT
I keep meaning to go back and watch Murder House again - when it was airing, none of us knew this was a self-contained story, and that's part of how they got us - I assumed SOMEONE had to survive. I've found that each season I've watched, I've been kinda ehhh about while watching but manage to find something to love by the end. They usually conclude in satisfying (and admittedly upsetting) ways. Freak Show was a big exception for me - the massacre was too much for me to recover from, and I haven't seen Hotel yet (I don't see them til they land on Netflix). I'm not sure I'll keep with the show, tbh though. Freak Show kind of broke me. i never thought about that before but you have a good point! the one and only time i watched MH was when it aired for the first time so i had different expectations about it as a multi-season plot vs. an anthology format. i agree about freak show, it was kind of weirdly too dark, even for AHS. i still think it was really artistically beautiful and has a great aesthetic but some of it was... too much, yeah. hotel is tamer than freak show i think. it's more explicitly sexual but less disturbing imo. Isn't it really rapey though? I heard it was really rapey. The one advantage I'd have going in is - the big complaint I heard was that people couldn't tell all the male actors apart bc they looked too similar, but I already know all their faces really well from other stuff so I think I'd be okay there. (unrelated but hilarious: I watched Love Actually and Bridget Jones's Diary with a friend who couldn't tell Hugh Grant and Colin Firth apart and she spent both movies really really confused) |
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