Chapter 10

I binged the entire season today, and was surprised how much I enjoyed the last episode given the fact that it was the rated the lowest of the season. It becomes increasingly clear that the truth about the house and the property is going to go on, continuing to not be believed as anyone and everyone who goes there (media, police, probably army too if they tried) will not make it out alive and if they did, the world would not believe them. The final scene of the episode really draws this idea home and gave me shivers, as the butchers crowd is approaching the emergency services and media who are at the house.

Disappointing to conclude that I had wanted a season of American Horror Story to be over already after the first five episodes. I have been a great fan of this show during all seasons, but this one let me down. This season started off very well with the Roanoke story. Interesting angle to have it re- enacted, decent thrills and suspense in the story line. And then it was all over after a few episodes and a second season started within the season, with too many TV-makers inside jokes, eventually turning into a worse version of Blair Witch project with its poor camera work, poor sound, poor story line and irrelevant content. This final episode closes off the season with even more irrelevant content, fragmented across uninteresting rip-offs of TV shows casting yet another third-party view on what happened. All this could have been done in an entertaining, intelligent way, but the producers just blew this season. If this is the inspiration they have left, I am very worried about the quality of the next season.

OK so even though this wasn't the best season ever, can any of you haters at least appreciate that the creators are trying to do something different? This is probably one of the best seasons of AHS, it doesn't follow a load of story lines, it doesn't have any characters with side stories, I love that it's just ghosts trying to kill the living in a reality TV show type. Also why did any of you continue watching when you all were complaining in the middle of the season? If you were so bored and disappointed, then don't watch 😒 but no you continued watching and kept repeating the same words over and over again, we get it, your disappointed, should've just stopped watching awhile ago. I respect opinions, but I think this season is great!!! I loved the finale, though many didn't :( Yet, I enjoyed the season and the finale very much!! :D

"The living cling to life above all, but the trophy misprized is to die in peace"

A little bit inspired by "Hostel", a little bit by "Blair Witch", a reality show in a haunted house, bloodthirsty ghosts and all-out carnage. I can't stand movies made in a (semi/fake)documentary style, I usually either skip them or turn them off very quickly, but I have to admit that this frankenstein of the season held my attention and I'd say it's the scariest so far.

The only major complaint is that they brought the most widespread flaw of the horror genre - characters who behave completely illogically and irrationally and make increasingly wrong moves one after another, which eventually (or often at the beginning) drive them to death - to the brink of imbecility. No one who lived in a haunted house and survived what the protagonists did in the first half of this season would return to it again for anything in the world, so their voluntary return to hell in the second half of the season is foolishness that makes the whole story unbelievable and therefore less effective. Fortunately, the acting, effects, and overall atmosphere are good enough to keep the scares at an enviable level.

7/10.

Maybe I wouldn't mind the fact that the finale completely lacked any and all tension of that wasn't something it was trying to pull off. Feels like I wasted 10 hours.