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Just when you thought American
Horror Story co-creators Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk couldn't get any
crazier, they go and announce exactly what the second season, subtitled Asylum,
is all about: In a nutshell, the walls of the show's new setting, the
Briarcliff mental institution in the 1960s, house not only loons but also a
(possible) mad Nazi doctor, a serial killer named Bloody Face who wears
victims' flesh as a mask, mutated ghouls, and, for the hell of it, aliens.
That's certainly a far cry from a perverted ghost clad in all-black latex.
As it's been widely reported,
Murphy's master plan for American Horror Story has been to treat each
season as its own self-contained narrative, with key actors (here, Jessica
Lange, Zachary Quinto, Evan Peters, Lily Rabe, and Sarah Paulson) returning
each year to play all-new characters. Asylum is the first attempt to
make such an unprecedented format work, and the decision to mine campy scares
from religious imagery, including exorcisms and evil nuns, is definitely a step
in the right direction.
Like any good horror sequel, Asylum
promises to make last year's inaugural season look reasonably restrained by
comparison. Watching every episode's bloody, sexually depraved insanity should
make us all feel like inmates.
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