Race hate is the vein which seems to pump evil through the heart of this season of American Horror Story. Episode four opens in 1961 where a young black schoolboy is killed and hung in the trees on his first day of school by ignorant, old, white men. I found this a particularly stressful scene and certainly one of the most powerful yet. It seems the most terrifying to watch are the ones which replicate real incidents in history.
Then the creepy opening credits roll on this Halloween spectacular and we are sent to butler Spalding’s room. This maniac butler has wall to wall china dolls and likes to hum along and sip tea from a toy tea set. Not unsettling at all! He is disturbed from his macabre high tea by a crash and a noise. Heading downstairs he witnesses the moment where Fiona Goode takes the life of her perceived competitor, Madison. If only that man could speak! He could, many years ago... who took his tongue? We find out here.
The private moment between Spalding and Goode is disturbed by more noises, this time the painful wails of Queenie. Queenie’s sexual encounter with the voodoo Minotaur turned into a vicious attack and she is very near death. Can Fiona and Claudia save her? Will Delphine finally understand her wrongs in previous lifetimes, and how will the witches retaliate to this attack?
The Coven is in disarray and all the witches seem to have muchos problemos in their private lives: Nan has lost contact with Madison and believes she is dead; Madison is rolled up in a carpet awaiting disposal; Claudia has a husband who appears to be the Craigslist killer; and Zoe has lost her Fraken-boyfriend.
Madam Delphine's resurrection seems to have sparked a war that has Zombie’s descending on the house. They are meant to be the evil undead but too much TV as a kid in the 80’s means that I found myself humming ‘Thriller’ when they came out of the graves and half expected a bit of a zombie dance off!
A great Halloween episode. Can’t wait to see which creepy road these storylines take us to next.
Review by JoAnn Duff.
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