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“American Horror Story: Roanoke” Paid Tribute To ‘Cannibal Holocaust’ Last Night

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Poor Taissa Farmiga. Poor, sweet Taissa Farmiga.

Series creator Ryan Murphy has been known to pay tribute to horror films past in “American Horror Story,” but last night we saw a tribute (or a rip-off, if you prefer to call it that) that we certainly did not expect to see. The latter half of “American Horror Story: Roanoke” has taken on a full-on found footage style, and last night homaged the original found footage horror film.

Long before The Blair Witch Project came along and made the sub-genre popular, director Ruggero Deodato’s Cannibal Holocaust played around with the docu-filmmaking style that wouldn’t become a full-blown sub-genre until many years later. In fact, the film was presented so realistically that many people, at the time, believed Deodato had actually killed his entire cast!

On “AHS” last night, the film’s most shocking moment was recreated.

The ninth episode of “American Horror Story: Roanoke” introduced new characters in the form of your typical found footage victims, one of whom was played by series regular Taissa Farmiga, and two of the adventurous pals were killed by their curiosity when the Roanoke ghosts captured them. They were tossed to the ground and, well, giant skewers were shoved through their butts.

Yes, Farmiga’s character and the character’s friend were turned into human shish-kabobs by the vengeful ghosts, and then posed much the same way as that ill-fated woman in Cannibal Holocaust. They were then set on fire and burned alive, taking that moment from Deodato’s film to a whole new level of shocking and horrifying. If there’s one thing “AHS” loves, it’s shock value.

We screen-grabbed some shots for you below, in case you missed it.

As we’ve noted, this season of “AHS” has also paid tribute to The Blair Witch Project.

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One of Clive Barker’s Final Convention Appearances Will Be at New Jersey’s Monster Mania in August

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We told you earlier this month that horror legend Clive Barker is leaving the convention scene behind to focus entirely on his writing, with various upcoming projects in the works.

A series of final appearances from Barker will begin at Days of the Dead Chicago this month, and we’ve learned Barker will also be coming to Monster Mania in New Jersey.

Clive Barker will be signing at Monster Mania 59 in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, which runs from August 2 – August 4, 2024. Stay tuned for more info from the convention.

Barker’s official statement earlier this month explained, “… it’s time to focus entirely on writing. I’m not stopping public events because I’ve lost delight in meeting you all over the years. I’m as passionate as ever about sharing my imagination with readers and moviegoers around the world. In the very room where I’m writing these words, I have the manuscripts for a very large number of projects (Thirty-one of them), some very close to completion, others still telling themselves. There are some wild projects in this collection of works, whether close to finished or done. There are also stories that you all knew I would be finishing.”

“Abarat IV and V are amongst the books at my feet,” he continued. “So is the Third and final book of The Art and the sequel to The Thief of Always. There are also return visits to characters and mythologies you may have thought I would never return to.

“I hope I am still able to surprise you in the decades ahead.”

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