American horror stories returns with Henry Winkler, Michael Imperioli, Debby Ryan, Victor Garber and more for the release of its five-episode season for what is billed as a Hulaween event.
The series is a spin-off of Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk's award-winning anthology series American horror story – features a different horror story in each of its standalone episodes.
The minute-and-a-half look at the upcoming episode, premiering Oct. 15 as part of Hulu's Halloween lineup, teases new takes on classic horror clichés like “don't look under the bed,” a scary figure that appears in the film. mirror and a woman appearing in an empty parking lot late at night.
“When he dreams, things happen,” a nurse tells Ryan's character. “What kind of thing?” she replies, before a scene plays of her in bed with a man being dragged under the bed.
In another look at the anthology series, Garber is seen activated by a button on the side of his neck before trying to stab someone with a knife. “My purpose is to love you,” he says before attempting to strangle someone else.
About halfway through the trailer, a black-and-white scene shows a man in a hospital bed, begging someone not to kill him. “Kill you? I almost don't know you,” Winkler says in his debut trailer, wearing an eye patch.
While the look at the series doesn't reveal much else about the individual episodes, it does feature what appear to be the episode titles: “The Thing Under the Bed,” “Backrooms,” “Clone,” “Leprechaun” and “X.”
Dyllón Burnside, Jeff Hiller, Jessica Barden, Angel Bismark Curiel, Guy Burnet and June Squibb also star in the fourth season of American Horror Storieswhose executive producers are Murphy, Falchuk, Alexis Martin Woodall, Max Winkler, Jon Robin Baitz and Manny Coto.
This is the latest series to launch from prolific producer Murphy this fall, debuting in September on FX History of American Sports: Aaron HernandezNetflix Monsters: The Story of Erik and Lyle MenendezFX GrotesqueFox 9-1-1 and ABC Doctor Odyssey.
American horror stories falls under his American history franchise banner, which also includes American horror story, History of American crime and will include later American love story.