"Scream Queens" Incites Audience Screams .. of Joy!

Ryan Murphy, creator of successful series’ such as Glee and American Horror Story, has released the first information about his next highly anticipated endeavor, a comedy-horror series for FOX called Scream Queens. The original “Princess of Scream” Jamie Lee Curtis and relative newcomer to the genre Emma Roberts will be the new series’ leading ladies. The new show will revolve around a series of murders that suddenly rock a local, small-town campus. Scream Queens is slated as a fifteen episode anthology for its first season and hopes to premiere Fall 2016. 

Murphy seems to have a knack for drawing in woman of a certain age back to the spotlight as he has with Jessica Lange, Kathy Bates, and Angela Bassett in American Horror Story. His charms must be effective as this is Jamie Lee Curtis’ first stab back to horror since the character she originated, Laurie Strode, met her untimely death in the final chapter of the Halloween franchise in 2002. 

Emma Roberts has also been earning most of her most recent horror credit on Murphy’s American Horror Story, acting as a major role in the last two seasons. Her first horror credit, however, came from the latest installment of Wes Craven’s Scream franchise, Scream 4, alongside veteran actors Nev Campbell, Courtney Cox, and David Arquette. Emma Roberts is also engaged to long time American Horror Story star Evan Peters, who has been a critical on the role on the show every season since its premiere.

As time passes, anticipation for the new series grows as Ryan Murphy’s other shows continue to please. American Horror Story continues to entice audiences with its new twisted and gory story lines and characters. Murphy’s work overall is filling the horror genre with new life and flare as he continues to bring horror back to its original home, television.

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American Horror Story becomes American Horror Saga!

In the most recent news surrounding this horror television hit, show runner and creator Brian Murphy has announced that every season of American Horror Story is connected. The show’s unique structure and production style have already given it a platform to standout from all other horror episodic shows on television, but now we find that every seemingly random piece will play a part in the puzzle. Speculation began in internet fan circles when news was released that audience favorite two characters (Lily Rabe’s Sister Mary Eunice and Naomi Groosman’s Pepper) from the second season of the show, American Horror Story: Asylum, would return in this most recent installment, American Horror Story: Freakshow. Weeks later Murphy has stated, “The interesting thing about doing a show like this is every season is incredibly its own story and its own beginning, middle and end. Its own journey. But we have always from the very beginning in the intertwining mythologies and how things connect. This is the first year where we begin to tell you that season two is connected to season four which is connected to season one.” Fans of the show have come out in full force online rejoicing in the official announcement. However, their theories do not stop there. Many fans still go on speculating what the relation of the seasons could mean as an overarching picture. The most popular theory remains that the recurring cast members, which the show is famous for, are all deceased. This would mean that since the first season we have been traveling with them side-by-side as the face the separate circle of Hell. This theory not only remains a fan favorite but also seems to be supported by the most evidence as each season, at its core, revolves around one particular sin. Is there then room to speculate that there will be at least five more seasons of American Horror Story in the not-so-distant future? Nothing is for certain. However you can catch this most current season of the show Wednesdays at 9/8c on FX. Audiences will have to wait with baited breathe to see how their favorite horror mini series plays out and who will make it to the next season.

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