I’m not gonna lie, I never finished “American Horror Story: Hotel.” I actually really quite enjoyed what I saw, but there’s only so many hours in a day and I eventually fell behind.
Even though I’m not even halfway through the season, it exists, and I’ll eventually return to it. And with that, I still get excited about what Ryan Murphy has ahead for the franchise (please, please let it include the return of Jessica Lange!).
Every year “American Horror Story” is teased and celebrated at PaleyFest, with this year’s event concluding with talk of the coming sixth season on FX.
Murphy dropped a bomb, revealing that this will be the first time two ideas will merge through an entire season: “The interesting thing about the next season is that we’ve been working on two ideas at once, which we’ve never done,” Murphy told Deadline.
Murphy did tease that the creative team has always been influenced by “the opera.” He also said, especially after Hotel dealt with moppet vampires, that horror “often deals with the innocence of children, and their wide-eyed way into it. Both (Season 6) ideas we’re working with have elements of children.”
There were rumors of a Slenderman-themed season that were put to rest, but the idea of “American Horror Story” channeling “Phantom of the Opera” or something to that effect makes an enormous amount of sense.
While we don’t know anymore, one thing Murphy did make certain tonight was the eight “AHS: Hotel” castmembers on stage with him — Kathy Bates, Denis O’Hare, Angela Bassett, Sarah Paulson, Finn Wittrock, Wes Bentley, Cheyenne Jackson and Matt Bomer — will return next season.