Ever see American Horror Story: Freak Show? Well the deeply disturbing (and much better) inspiration for that season was Tod Browning's Freaks.
While I don't want to say too much about it, let's simply state it is plenty disturbing even by today's standards. If you are a true horror fan and have not seen it, well then I question your commitment to the genre.
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That's correct all of you American Horror Story fans, Pepper has escaped The Asylum and joined the Freak Show!
American Horror Story: Freak Show that is. Pepper a fan favorite inmate who visited during it's second season, Asylum is back and part of season four's Freak Show. Naomi Grossman the actress who portrays Pepper and is pictured above with the World's Smallest Woman is a perfect fit. According to show creator Ryan Murphy: Pepper is one of the members of the titular group of entertainers, managed by Elsa Mars (Jessica Lange). Explains Murphy, “What Elsa has done for 20 years is she goes around to hospitals and jails and rescues these ‘freak’ circus performers who are going to be shipped away to asylums and she signs the waivers and she becomes their guardians.” This season of AHS takes place in 1952, a good 12 years before the events of Asylum. So Freak Show, according to Murphy, “is sort of like what happened to Pepper before she went to the asylum.” Step right up and marvel at the Freak Show, check out the full length trailer below...
Yeah, I know it was American Horror Story: Freak Show Friday last week too, but the latest teasers involve clowns, those beings that are considered both creepy & delightful simultaneously, that they inhabit our flights of whimsy and our nightmares. Thus I had to send you off this post Holiday Friday with something that will make you shudder. That's the way I roll. In American Horror Story: Freak Show, Jessica Lange plays Elsa Mars, the owner of one of the last remaining freak shows in America. The season is set in the 1950s and also stars Kathy Bates, Sarah Paulson, Angela Bassett, Frances Conroy, Evan Peters and Denis O'Hare. Matt Bomer and Patti LaBelle will guest star. The cast will play various "freaks," with Bates, who just took home an Emmy for her Coven role, playing the bearded lady. Bassett will play a woman with three breasts and newcomer Michael Chiklis will play a strongman. And since it's an old time freak show, expect clowns. So suck it up and step right up and enjoy the Freak Show, I for one can't wait!
I contemplated doing a post about some wedding that happened this past weekend, but honestly while I would like to congratulate Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, I find the latest promotional teasers for American Horror Story: Freak Show more exciting!
Although I must also give Brad and Angelina credit for being clever enough to have their wedding on a weekend while a major awards show, The Emmy's, was happening to help keep it hush hush and under the radar and all.
These promos are getting me really excited for October 8th on FX. In case you didn't know the month of Halloween and all things spooky is my Christmas and I'd like to thank the powers that be for giving us horror fans this present for the past three years, and now a fourth.
Looking at the image recently released by The Hollywood Reporter above sends my imagination into overdrive.
Here's hoping that Tod Browning's Freaks plays a major influence on this "Freak Show!"
Check out the latest freaky teaser trailer below. I can't wait!
