‘American Horror Story: 1984’ Recap: Season Premiere Filled with Camp Horror and Slasting Nostalgia

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SPOILER ALERT: This recap article contains details about tonight’s American Horror Story: 1984 season premiere episode. American Horror Story: 1984 is nothing if it isn’t faithful, at least for tropes of the title era. From its pulsating synthetics-music in its Late Gates physical fashion and slasher film cliché, the AHS84 takes the death train straight back to the Reagan era.

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This incarnation of the Ryan Murphy horror anthology begins with a flashback to the 1970s, when we see the disgusting slaughterhouse of a summer camp filled with teenagers, three of whom are just caught in bed doing what it does to people in movies. For slash. The killer, soon to be named after Mr. Jingles, bites the ears of all his victims each time he walks – a gruesome detail that would later be included in the plot.

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Jump for 1984 (and, at least the first episode is gone so far, there are no Orwellian cross references here) and a la aerobics class, filled with pastel leggings, short shorts and feathered hair, pretty, head is led. Banded Xavier Pleumton (Cody Fern). Her class includes Pals Montana (Billy Lourd), the type of girl of the good kind usually marked by the ’80s horror convention, and Ray (Deron Horton) early exit, due to being black. , Will hope to make one quick. Away from the good times girl.

There’s also Chet (Gus Kenworthy), a hunky but failed Olympics hopeful (damned drug tests), and Brooke (Emma Roberts), the innocent new girl in town.

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