American Horror Story - Murder House

Nett, skurril, verstörend. Ryan Murphy. Und das nicht nur wegen der hervorragenden Idee, die Geschichte von Victor Frankenstein mit Lindbergs Kind zu verbinden. Die schwarze Dahlia ist auch immer ein Vergnügen, und die zwei Gesichter von Moira, das ist es, worauf es hier ankommt. Ich habe Alexandra Breckenridge seit dem Ende von Dirt sehr vermisst... Und wer würde nicht gerne endlich ein Haus in La La Land an der Trasse berühmter Morde kaufen? Jessica Lange rockt, Connie Britton auch, und seltsamerweise ist das Ganze wieder eine einzige große Romanze. Constances junger Liebhaber ist der Beweis dafür. Das Ende ist dann herrlich befriedigend und gibt die Möglichkeit, sich auf die Fortsetzung zu freuen und gleichzeitig mit dem Cliffhanger zufrieden zu sein. (11.02.2012)

Meiner Meinung nach ist American Horror Story zweifelsohne eine gut gemachte Serie, die Action, Romantik, Mystery und Horror geschickt und effektiv zu einer großartigen Kombination verbindet, über die ich mich absolut nicht beschweren kann. Von den Darstellern hat Jessica Lange meine Aufmerksamkeit am meisten auf sich gezogen, da sie sowohl unendlich warm als auch eiskalt sein kann. Die Atmosphäre des Films ist beklemmend, ergreifend und perfekt getaktet. Der Soundtrack ist leicht, eher von unheimlichen Klängen dominiert, und die Intros zu den Episoden fangen die Natur der Serie perfekt ein. Morbide, bizarr, gruselig, klaustrophobisch, aber auch ergreifend und (bis zu einem gewissen Grad - z. B. der Erzählstrang um die Harmons) aus dem Leben gegriffen. Kurzum, eine der besten Serien unserer Zeit. (19.06.2012)

Relationship problems, infidelity, trust, new beginnings, and yet this story is definitely not a romance. Evil under the stairs, a ghost around the corner, and lots of skeletons that want to come out of one scary house's closet - and yet I wouldn't label the series purely as a horror show. Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk have simply dusted off the optimism and enthusiasm that accompanied them for three years on Glee and decided to write down all the negative thoughts that had accumulated in their heads since the end of Nip/Tuck. And when the phenomenal Jessica Lange or the captivating Evan Peters came to assist them, they hit the mark. Although AHS is unsettling from the first seconds and creepily unpleasant with all its converging storylines, I found it hard to look away. If the family conversations didn't occasionally stutter in pace, the events could have been even more captivating. Nevertheless, it was the first obsidian from the black treasure. (17.03.2012)

Weird, weird, weird! Which was actually the purpose. Some see fear in it, others see the atmosphere of the town of Twin Peaks. One thing is clear, and that is the fact that this series doesn’t care about reality, simply playing with the viewer, and even though the story is based on paranormal phenomena, it seems to me as if it was not about them at all. The touch of the creators of Nip/Tuck is evident here. Some things managed to properly disgust me, but I don’t know if I can stand it until the end. Somehow the characters didn’t dazzle me enough to keep me going. But the idea definitely deserves it and the same goes for some of the characters. Anyway, I have to say that it’s pretty little for a long-running series. (07.07.2013)

Pilot: American Horror Story came out of nowhere. Until the day the pilot was out, I didn’t have any detailed information about it. When foreign horror websites wrote about it, I didn’t pay attention to the articles because the title made be expect some kind of documentary (like, Nightmares in Red, White and Blue: The Evolution of the American Horror Film). Under these circumstances, I didn’t have time to get sufficiently excited and maybe that’s why I liked the pilot more than if I’d been expecting something great. So far, it feels like Twin Peaks in a B-movie package. The cold opening is fantastically scary and the rest of the episode is entertainingly unsettling. I’m very curious about what aces the creators have up their sleeves, because stretching a haunted house story to the length of a TV series won’t be easy. There are two things that bother me: the character of Ben and that the scenes don’t link with each other very well – I’ve no idea whether the first episode takes place during a week, a month, or even more… The rating is provisional, I feel that with the remaining episodes the series can either drop to three or go up to five :) 1st season: So, it held to four. I liked the interesting characters and the story as a whole, which exploited everything it could out of the trodden premise of a haunted house, especially considering it is a twelve-episode series. If there’s one thing to complain about is that we didn’t get that many horror moments. But thumbs up. The last episode was a beautiful farewell to the characters and I’m looking forward to the second season, which will be about something completely different. (08.10.2011)