The category is ’80s slasher realness, and American Horror Story: 1984 has more hallmarks of the genre than you can shake a machete at. Heavily leaning on Friday the 13th (its setting is a fictional camp that’s reopening years after a tragedy occurred, this one referred to as “the worst summer camp massacre of all time”) with Halloween for backup (the purveyor of said massacre was caught, locked up in a psychiatric facility, and successfully escapes on a rainy night, letting out the other patients with him), American Horror Story: 1984 is a loving tribute to cheap cinema of misanthropy and exploitation. It is also a savvy callback to a horror subgenre that seems poised to make a comeback after the smash success of last year’s Halloween, which grossed $159 million at the domestic box office. This season, the anthology series’s ninth, premiered Wednesday on FX.
is its own sort of trope—the profitable slashers gave birth to a slew of knock-offs in the ’80s that lived and died on VHS. The cast, which includes Emma Roberts , Billie Lourd , and Cody Fern , is game. The performances vacillate from wooden to overwrought, and rather consciously so.
the real-life Richard Ramirez . How the show will negotiate the blood thirst of two competing maniacs could be novel.
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