It's the time of year to start sleeping with your nightlight on. The days are getting shorter, the nights longer. Soon enough, Jack O'Lanterns will lights up haunted stoops across the country. The colder months will drive the night dwellers and boogie men indoors. But perhaps most terrifying will be the return of "American Horror Story."
Fans of the eerie drama series have anxiously been awaiting its third season, dubbed "Coven." Horror is entertaining. It's riveting. You can feel it in your bones. So naturally, they're eager to dig up any details on the forthcoming season before its premiere. Lucky for them, co-creator Ryan Murphy recently sat down with The Hollywood Reporter and shared several hard hitting details that will make the hair on the back of your neck stand with rigor mortis.
Oddly enough, the clues lie in the titles. "I've always been obsessed with main titles. I really feel like it's an art form," Murphy said. "It tells you what the viewing experience ahead is going to be." In last season's opening credits, images of people stuck in bathtubs foreshadowed the milk baths and Lana and other inmates suffered. Murphy embeds images from a particular season's episodes throughout the credit sequence, using existing sets and locations to make them readily detectable once they appear on the show.
"You have to watch it 10 times because every frame is a clue for what the season will be," Murphy said. "And every year it has a different tone, look and concept. By the last frame of the main title for 'Coven,' you'll really have an idea of what the last frame of the 'Coven' season will be."
Brace yourselves. There's terror around every corner, and as the season premiere of "Coven" approaches, things are only going to get spookier. "American Horror Story" will return to FX October 9.
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