SPOILER ALERT: Do not proceed if you’re not caught up with the current season of “American Horror Story.”
If you’re anything like me, there are only two seasons in the year. “American Horror Story” season and waiting for “American Horror Story” season. Let me tell you friends, my favorite time of the year is back! And for my fellow horror buffs out there, I am here to tell you that, after two episodes, I have complete faith that this season will not disappoint.
Ten million viewers tuned into the Oct. 8 season premiere, and the series has already signed on for a fifth season that will begin Oct. of next year.
The anthology has brought back many fan favorites, such as Evan Peters, Jessica Lange and a two-headed Sarah Paulson for their fourth season, titled “Freak Show.” Creator Ryan Murphy has also added a few new faces, including the clown to end all clowns.
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John Carroll Lynch plays Twisty the Clown, and he might be the scariest thing to ever grace the AHS set. Of course there was the rubber man from season one, who was more creepy than anything. Then there was bloody face from season two. He was pretty scary. Season three had a huge minotaur, a voodoo man and an axe-wielding saxophone player.
None of these characters could have prepared fans for Twisty. I am not afraid of clowns. Are they my favorite? No. But I have never seen a clown and been uncomfortable. Our friend Twisty, on the other hand, makes your stomach churn. He makes you want to turn off the TV, hide under a blanket and never leave your room again.
He’s dressed just like any other clown, except he looks like he’s been dragged behind a truck. Is that dirt on his costume? Blood? Something else all together? Unlike other clowns who wear fun-colored wigs, he wears a weird scary hat with clown hair on it. I use the word hat, but quite honestly it looks more like a bloody scalp he stole from another clown. He also has a mask that only covers the bottom of his white painted face that looks like a huge creepy smile.
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When Twisty first appeared during the first episode, he walks up on a cute teenage couple in the middle of a little hanky panky. He knocks the girl out with a juggling club, and she wakes up to him brutally murdering her boyfriend. He then proceeds to shove her in a cage in an old school bus. He also stabs a mom and dad to death in their beds in the middle of the night and proceeds to kidnap their son.
This was just episode one, guys. In episode two, the audience is given a visual clue as to what, I’m sure, will be a very dark back story to poor Twisty. He gets into a bit of a scuffle with his two prisoners, and in the moment his facemask falls off. Dear god, let’s pray that that shit does not happen again because it was terrible. He has no mouth. No lips, no jaw. It is literally a gaping hole in the bottom of his face with what looked like a tongue and maybe some teeth?
It only lasted for a second or two, but it was enough for everyone at home watching to utter a collective, “WHAT. THE. FUCK?”
I love scary things. I live for horror. And as a genuinely curious person, I have been wondering what is under that mask ever since I saw Twisty’s first commercial. I was ready for disfiguration but not a huge, dripping facehole.
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“We said in the writers room that if we were going to do clowns, we were going to create the most terrifying clown of all time,” Murphy said in an interview with BuzzFeed.
There are still 11 more episodes to go, but if things continue on this path, then I think it’s safe to say the writers have hit their mark. Lynch was also a great pick for Twisty. At 6’3, he towers over the rest of the cast. His size combined with the bulkiness of the clown costume creates a presence that would make a grown man shit himself.
Although I applaud Murphy for creating Twisty, there is a group of people that is none too pleased. Clowns of America International — apparently, this is a thing — is upset about Twisty and his perverted portrayal of clowns. The organization is afraid he is going to make more people afraid of clowns.
“We do not support in any way, shape of form any medium that sensationalizes or adds to coulrophobia, or clown fear,” said Glen Kohlberger, president of Clowns of America International.
Kohlberger, whose clown name is Clyde D. Scope, said that Hollywood has a tendency to take completely normal, innocent things and turn them into a nightmare, “no matter how good or pure.”
Apparently this man has absolutely no recollection of John Wayne Gacy, the real life Killer Clown. I can agree that clowns have probably not been given a fair shake by Hollywood, but Gacy sexually assaulted and murdered at least 33 known teenage boys and then hid their bodies in the crawl space under his house.
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Besides, anyone who is afraid of clowns won’t be watching AHS, and people who watch and love the show probably (hopefully) will not swear off clowns because of one character.
Coming out and complaining about AHS’s use of a killer clown will do nothing, except maybe make a few unknowing potential fans tune in this season. But then again, it’s also a great publicity move to attach themselves to the show. I mean, who the fuck has ever heard of Clowns of America International? Maybe these bozos (clown humor!) are actually smarter than we think.
If you’ve never seen the show, I highly recommend setting aside an hour, or an hour and 21 minutes, as it has been the duration the past two weeks, on your Wednesday nights and delving into the subculture that I have so faithfully been a part of for the past four years.
If you don’t like scary things — boo, you whore — you probably shouldn’t watch it. It’s on FX at 10 p.m. every Wednesday with a two-part Halloween episode on Oct. 22 and Oct. 29.
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