You see, this area is known for way weirder things than Ben Affleck. And then there’s the whole Lady of the Dunes and Bridgewater Triangle tie-ins. Coven, although filmed in New Orleans, has ties to Massachusetts for Salem reasons, because Stevie Nicks says so. In the first season, Murder House, the Harmon family move from Boston to Los Angeles (another filming location for beach and desert locales in season ten) and then immediately dissolve into actual hellscape chaos. Aside from Tony Costa, Massachusetts is dank with AHS touchstones. The episode in question makes mention of the popularity in the ’70s of Bigfoot, aliens, and the Loch Ness Monster, and fans of the show have been chewing on that ever since. In the early planning stages of season ten, Ryan Murphy hinted that a clue to the new season could be found in episode eight of season nine, 1984. During sentencing, the judge asked if he had anything to say for himself, to which Costa is said to have replied, “Keep digging.” In the end, Costa was convicted for murdering two women, but the consensus was that the body count was probably way higher.
In it, he interviews another Provincetown legend, Victor “Moulty” Moulton, who says that everyone in the area knew about Costa’s “predatory ways,” and no one was surprised when he was arrested for murder. P-town mascot John Waters, who vacations there each year and can often be spotted tooling through town on his bicycle (perhaps on his way to the dick dock?), mentions Tony Costa in his 2019 memoir Mr.
Ironically or not, given the vamp versus alien imagery we’ve seen from Double Feature so far, Tony Costa was often referred to by press as the Cape Cod Vampire. He was known for his brutality, said to have bitten chunks out of his victims. Costa was a handyman, cannabis farmer, and frequent user of pills and LSD who killed a string of women in the late ’60s, dumping their bodies in shallow graves in Truro, Massachusetts. called Helltown, which centers on the murders of Tony Costa.
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AHS, under the working title “Pilgrim,” was setting up in and around Provincetown, as was a series in development by Robert Downey Jr. At the top of 2021, Massachusetts news outlets reported two notable productions in the area. All good signs pointing toward fresh blood and possible new angles on murders and mysteries of the past and present.ĭelayed twice due to COVID lockdowns and restrictions, once during initial production and again during the Delta wave, part one of Double Feature features a number of speculative clues as to what’s in store that can be gleaned from its location. It’s been ten years and the show is dusting off the doormats a bit. There’s the double feature-ness of it all, splitting the season into two sections, with part one ( Red Tide) taking place by the sea for the first six episodes and part two ( Death Valley) taking place in the sand for the remaining four the first-time supplemental materials, like the three-part “ audio dramas” that debuted August 23 on YouTube and the decision to send each episode direct to Hulu immediately after airing on FX proper. The introduction of Macaulay Culkin as a new cast member this season isn’t the only “let’s try this” element of Double Feature. AHS has touched upon “real-life” fears and torments before … but not like this. The fresh hell of a horror show rubbing “you might not be good enough” in your face is so deliciously ouchy. If you’ve ever, even once, lost sleep over wondering just how talented you are, if at all, part one of Double Feature is gonna really froth you up.
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But what the hell is on the menu now? Vampires? Aliens? P-town A-list serial killers and cryptid lore from the ’60s and ’70s? *insert Kevin McCallister Home Alone face slap screaming gif*
And this time, with Double Feature, we’re being served double-fisted portions of pinnacle camp and horror, family style.
From the initial succulence of Murder House (2011) to the crispy marshmallow campfire fun of 1984 (2019), fans of AHS have grown accustomed to gobbling up whatever the showrunners decide to dish out. A story line centering on a bloodlust for talent and ambition during deep COVID feels like a hate crime, but what could be scarier than the fear of being ordinary, really?Īmerican Horror Story, the big fat fried turkey in the center of Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk’s table, has never been afraid to take big swings with its carving knife.
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