{"id":183414,"date":"2019-03-25T16:00:23","date_gmt":"2019-03-25T16:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.factstoryhub.com\/?p=183414"},"modified":"2024-02-03T06:59:33","modified_gmt":"2024-02-03T06:59:33","slug":"american-horror-story-facts","status":"publish","type":[],"link":"https:\/\/www.factstoryhub.com\/american-horror-story-facts\/","title":{"rendered":"30 Freaky Facts About American Horror Story"},"content":{"rendered":"
If I had to describe what watching American Horror Story is like to someone who has never seen it before, I’d say it’s like doing a puzzle – a very hard, round puzzle with no edges!\n You have to be 100% on the ball, because it’s so difficult to fit each piece into the bigger picture as it gets handed to you.\n With each revelation of how the seasons are connected, the puzzle becomes bigger, more intricate, more complicated.\n As you view how the differing seasons feed into each other you, the viewer, take a step back and see the puzzle isn’t flat. It’s 3D.\n Simply put, it’s kind of a writing masterpiece.\n Oh, and did I mention it’s freaking terrifying at the best of times?!\n Each season takes you on a roller coaster ride and always has you sitting on the edge of your seat, always guessing what’s coming next and always shocked when it catches you completely by surprise.\n With such a hugely revered cast and such an incredibly talented team of people working behind the cameras, it\u2019s no surprise the show has such a huge following.\n So for those of you out there who are terrified of normal people, here are 30 freaky facts about American Horror Story for you.\n The font in the opening credits, which has since become synonymous with the show and is plastered on t-shirts everywhere that say \u201cNormal People Scare Me,\u201d is a variation of the font Charles Rennie Mackintosh.\n This font was inspired by the design style of the Scottish architect and designer of the same name.\n Married couple Neil Patrick Harris and David Burkta were offered the roles of Chad Warwick and his boyfriend Patrick in Murder House, who were the two previous owners of the house before the Harmon family.\n Instead, Zachary Quinto played Chad and Teddy Sears played Patrick, whilst NPH and David Burkta went on to have roles in Season 4.\n Some of the most notable scores were from Bram Stoker’s Dracula, What Lies Beneath, Psycho and Insidious.\n It also used the Twisted Nerve whistle, originally from Twisted Nerve, but more recently whistled by Daryl Hannah in the iconic Kill Bill:Vol 1 scene.\n However she accepted it after Ryan Murphy repeatedly offered it to her. Thank the Gods that he persisted!\n So much so that Murphy consulted her on her upcoming roles in future seasons.\n Lange wanted to do a big drunk scene and a musical number in Season 2, which is why Sister Jude has that epic drunken monologue and does that sick Name Game number.\n Lange had always wanted to play a character that dresses in Chanel and is very elegant, which is why Fiona was always dressed to the nines in Coven.\n Outside of being an actress, Lange is a photographer who has always been drawn to the circus word, especially of the 50s, so therefore Elsa Mars was the owner of a freak show in Season 4.\n Season 1’s titular Murder House is a real location that has done the rounds in a few different shows.\n Actually the Rosenheim Mansion in Los Angeles, this house has been a popular filming set in TV over the years, having appeared before in Buffy, Bones, Alfred Hitchcock Presents and Law & Order: SVU.\n The location for Season 2’s titular Asylum is also a real location, being a historic courthouse in Orange County, California.\n It both describes the setting of the season, as well as using the term to signify a haven for the unwanted and the unloved.\n It was pulled directly from actual footage of Bill Baldini’s expos\u00e9 piece on Pennhurst Asylum, which revealed the terrible living conditions of the patients kept there and led to the closure of Pennhurst and the release of all its patients.\n Emma Roberts’s deliciously bitchy Madison Montgomery from Coven is related to Dr. Charles Montgomery, the original owner of the Murder House.\n Madison and the good doctor are both similar in the fact they both tried \u2013 and partly succeeded \u2013 in bringing someone back to life.\n Charles did it to his son Thaddeus, and Madison did it to Kyle.\n The three notes you hear playing repeatedly in the Freak Show intro are actually a sample of the opening notes of killer rock band Black Sabbath’s self-titled song.\n They are played a couple octaves higher and on violins, and are also played during the end credits.\n Even Peters’s character from Freak Show, Jimmy Darling, was based on a real man called Grady Stiles Jr., who was born with fused fingers and toes.\n In Season 4, there were a few songs that were sung by characters which were released after 1952, when the show is set.\n Chief among them were Jessica Lange’s awesome covers of Bowie’s Life On Mars and Lana Del Ray’s Gods & Monsters, as well as Even Peters’s cover of Nirvana’s Come As You Are.\n A fair few viewers complained about this, but the show’s creator Ryan Murphy has said in an interview that he picked songs by artists who labeled themselves as \u201cfreaks.\u201d\n Miss Robichaux’s Academy, where all the witches live in Coven and Apocalypse is actually the Buckner Mansion in New Orleans.\n You can stay there for the night, but it’ll cost you $20,000 to rent!\n To prep for her role as Baltimoreon bearded lady Ethel Darling, Kathy Bates prepped for putting on the thick accent by listening to interviews with US senator Barbara Mikulski, and consulted a \u201cBaltimorese\u201d website.\n Freak Show was Jessica Lange’s favorite season.\n Every scene involving Bette and Dot in Season 4 took longer than 10 hours to film.\n This is because it had to be repeated several times over in order to cover all the interactions between Sarah Paulson, who played both roles of course, and all the other actors.\n Talk about dedication.\n The Hotel Cortez of Season 5 (and also a little bit of 8) is based on a real Los Angeles hotel called the Hotel Cecil. Much like the Cortez, the Cecil has a very dark and chilling history.\n Over its years, the Hotel Cecil has had many suicides and murders occur on its grounds, and hit the news headlines recently in 2013 when a young Canadian woman, Elisa Lam, was mysteriously found dead in a water tank on the roof.\n Alongside this, the Hotel Cecil also hosted the serial killers Jack Unterwger and Richard \u201cThe Night Stalker\u201d Ramirez, who is depicted in Hotel at James Patrick Marsh’s party.\n Sarah Paulson missed being in three episodes of Hotel because she was shooting it in tandem with American Crime Story.\n When Aileen Wuornos (played sublimely by Lily Rabe) is first introduced in Hotel, the song Carnival by Natalie Merchant plays.\n This song was requested by the real Aileen Wuornos to be played at her funeral after her execution.\n Season 5’s subplot focuses on the \u201cchicken coup murders\u201d and is based on a real series of events by the same name.\n This is significant because Dennis O’Hare, who gave the performance of a lifetime as Liz Taylor in Hotel, was also in the 2008 movie Challenging, which is also based on the \u201cchicken coup murders\u201d.\n\u201cNormal People Scare Me\u201d\n
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Neil Patrick Harris & David Burkta were nearly in the first season.\n
Murder House used horror film scores for its soundtrack throughout the season.\n
Jessica Lange originally turned down the role of Constance in Season 1.\n
Ryan Murphy and Jessica Lange went on to become great friends during Season 1.\n
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Murder House appears in other shows.\n
The title for Season 2, Asylum, has a dual meaning to it.\n
Lana’s journalistic expos\u00e9 about Briarcliff Manor at the end of Asylum is based on a real life event.\n
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The recurring Montgomery family.\n
The Black Sabbath Freak Show connection.\n
The real Lobster Man.\n
Freak Show\u2019s songs By \u201cFreaks.\u201d\n
You can stay at the witches\u2019 academy.\n
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Kathy Bates\u2019s Baltimore research.\n
Jessica Lange\u2019s favorite season.\n
Two heads take longer to film than one.\n
The real Hotel Cortez.\n
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Horror Story & Crime Story back to back.\n
A song request by Aileen Wuornos.\n
The Chicken Coup Murders.\n
Lady Gaga is a huge fan of the show.\n