American Horror Story: Murder House. American Horror Story: Murder House (originally titled as American Horror Story) is the first season of the FX television series American Horror Story, aired between October 5, 2. December 2. 1, 2. The season was produced by 2. Century Fox Television, and the executive producers were Dante Di Loreto and series creators Brad Falchuk and Ryan Murphy. It centers on the Harmon family: Dr.
Ben Harmon, Vivien and their daughter Violet, who move from Boston to Los Angeles after Vivien has a miscarriage and Ben has an affair. They move into a restored mansion, unaware that the house is haunted by the ghosts of its former residents and their victims. The first season of American Horror Story received generally positive reviews from critics.
The series drew consistently high ratings for the FX network, ending its first season as the biggest new cable series of the year. The season was nominated for various industry awards, including the Golden Globe Award for Best Television Series – Drama, and received a total of seventeen Emmy Award nominations. In addition, Lange won the Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress, the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series, and the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie.
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Characters from Murder House made appearances in the series' fifth season, Hotel. Christine Estabrook returned as Marcy, the nosy realtor. Charles Montgomery, appeared in the episode . On arrival, they learn from Marcy (Christine Estabrook), the real estate agent, that the previous owners of their new mansion, a couple named Chad and Patrick (Zachary Quinto and Teddy Sears), died in an apparent murder/suicide. Their neighbor Constance (Jessica Lange) and her daughter Addie (Jamie Brewer) become frequent, and mostly unwelcome, guests. Addie seems to have a connection with the house's mysterious past.
Larry Harvey (Denis O'Hare), a former resident of the house who has suffered from terrible burns, also begins inserting himself into the Harmons' lives, giving Ben a cryptic warning about the house. The house also . One in particular, a possibly psychotic teenage boy named Tate Langdon (Evan Peters), takes interest in kindred spirit Violet, who suffers from depression. Ben is unaware that Tate is both a ghost and the son of Constance. As the family settles into the home, bizarre events begin to occur with increasing regularity.
It is soon revealed that there have been upwards of 2. The family struggles with their own personal tribulations, oblivious to the reality that their home is haunted by ghosts. While exploring the attic, Vivien discovers a latex bondage suit. She later is raped by a man wearing it, who she believes is Ben, but is actually Tate. Vivien's rape results in the rare occurrence of becoming pregnant with twins by different fathers. It is later revealed that Tate's motive in having sex with Vivien was to conceive a baby for Nora (Lily Rabe), a ghost in the house who lost her own child.
Hayden comes from Boston and tries to blackmail Ben into abandoning Vivien, so they can start their relationship over, threatening to tell Vivien that she's pregnant with Ben's baby. She is killed by Larry and buried by Ben in the house grounds, thus coming back as a ghost.
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Several ghosts in the house, including Hayden and Nora, conspire to drive Vivien mad so that they can raise the babies as their own. On Halloween, the one day in which the dead can walk among the living, Violet learns that Tate is an infamous school shooter, who killed a library full of his classmates (as well as crippling a teacher and setting Larry Harvey on fire) to punish his mother Constance for having Tate's younger (and deformed) brother euthanized. Addie is run over by a car, and Constance fails to get her corpse to the Harmon's property in time to imprison her spirit so that she can be reunited with her brother's ghost. Vivien, meanwhile, learns from the . After many ghosts, Vivien is committed to an insane asylum, while Ben is convinced that the second twin was fathered by Luke (Morris Chestnut), a neighborhood security officer. Meanwhile, Constance enlists the help of a medium, Billie Dean Howard (Sarah Paulson), to help her talk to Addie. Constance discovers from Billie Dean, to her horror, that Tate's child with Vivien will become the Antichrist.
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After Ben learns of Tate being the . Vivien and one of the newborn babies die, leaving Ben with the surviving twin. Violet breaks up with Tate after Chad reveals that Tate raped Violet's mother and murdered him and his boyfriend due to their deciding not to have a child. Ben tries to get into contact with his now dead wife and daughter, who refuse to show themselves. As he grieves he contemplates suicide to be with them. Instead, Vivien shows herself and convinces Ben to leave the house immediately for the protection of the baby. As Ben is leaving the house, he is caught and murdered by Hayden, who hangs him to simulate a suicide.
Hayden attempts to take the baby, but Constance, with the help of the ghost of a lover named Travis (Michael Graziadei), whom Hayden murdered, takes the child instead. Constance hides the baby and tells the police that Ben killed himself out of grief for his wife's death and that Violet (whose body is never found) ran off with the surviving child. Now trapped in the house, the Harmons team up with Moira and the other benevolent spirits to forbid other families from moving in by scaring them away. Meanwhile, Tate has consigned himself to living with Hayden, both of whom have been blocked out by the Harmons using a trick that Tate taught Violet. As the Harmons are decorating a Christmas tree, Tate promises to wait for Violet forever, as he and Hayden watch on through a door frame. Three years later, Constance (who left town) returns to Los Angeles, but finds that her grandson, Michael (the Antichrist), has murdered his nanny.
She slowly walks towards the smiling child as he rocks back and forth. She then smiles and whispers, . The second season of the show will be a brand- new home or building to haunt. Just like this year every season of this show will have a beginning, middle and end. It will obviously be in America, but in a completely different locale.“”– Murphy on American Horror Story's second season. He stated, . And I always had loved, as Brad had, the horror genre.
So it just was a natural for me. Dante Di Loreto was announced as executive producer. Production on the series began in April 2. He did not state which season it would be, but that he had already reached out to actors from both seasons to reprise their respective roles. When Murphy presented the role to her, he said, . It will be turning what you've just been doing on its ear.
So, yes, I was able to tell Connie really the whole run of the series. It was cable, rather than network.. I've been offered network . His character was initially described as . People think of me as the guy from The Practice.. I wanted to turn that .
Designed and built in 1. Alfred Rosenheim, the president of the American Institute of Architects' Los Angeles chapter, the Tudor or Collegiate Gothic- style single family home was previously used as a convent. The finale aired on December 2. Title sequence. He also created the title sequence for the AMC series The Walking Dead and the 1. Se. 7en. The theme music was composed by sound designer Cesar Davila- Irizarry and musician Charlie Clouser. Murphy described the sequence as a mini- mystery and stated, . The first episode scored 6.
Metacritic based on 3. The website's consensus reads, . This one will haunt your dreams.
Alan Sepinwall of Hit. Fix gave the series a D. Rubin, Ellen Brill (for . Lagola, Ellen Brill (for .
Ulrich, Eric Dawson. Nominated. Outstanding Costumes for a Miniseries, Movie, or Special.
Chrisi Karvonides, Conan Castro (for . Haught, Samantha Wade, Melanie Verkins, Natalie Driscoll, Michelle Ceglia. Won. Outstanding Main Title Design.
Kyle Cooper, Juan Ruiz Anchia, Gabriel Diaz, Ryan Murphy. Nominated. Outstanding Makeup for a Miniseries or Movie (Non- Prosthetic)Eryn Krueger Mekash, Kim Ayers, Silvina Knight, D. Garen Tolkin. Nominated. Outstanding Prosthetic Makeup for a Series, Miniseries, Movie, or Special.
Eryn Krueger Mekash, Hiroshi Yada, Michael Mekash, Christopher Nelson, Kim Ayers, Christien Tinsley, Jason Hamer. Nominated. Outstanding Sound Editing for a Miniseries, Movie, or Special. Gary Megregian, David Klotz, Steve M. Stuhr, Jason Krane, Jason Lezama, Timothy Cleveland, Bruce Tanis, Simon Coke, Zane Bruce, Jeff Gunn, Lance Wiseman (for ! Awards. Best TV Show. Nominated. 16th Online Film & Television Association Awards.
Ulrich, Eric Dawson, Carol Kritzer, Eric Souliere (Associate)Nominated. TCA Awards. Individual Achievement in Drama. Jessica Lange. Nominated. TV Guide Awards 2.
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Blaine Harden . Korea accessible to the general reader.”The Daily Beast: “an eminently readable picture of our most under- remembered war.”The LA Review of Books: “rigorously researched and entrancing tale of the Korean War.”South China Morning Post: “makes excellent use of recently declassified material to tie the cold war strands together in a compelling tale.”Library Journal (starred review): “An enjoyable read that is highly recommended for those interested in Cold War or North Korean history, or for anyone who likes a strong narrative.”Excellent radio interviews with me and the North Korean fighter pilot who stole the Great Leader’s Mi. G: CBC’s The Current. He told me by telephone that his life in the North Korean gulag differed from what he had been telling government leaders, human rights activists, and journalists like me. As his biographer, it was a stomach- wrenching revelation. It was also news. In the nearly three years since Escape from Camp 1. Shin had become the single most famous witness to North Korea’s cruelty to its own people.
He posed for photographs with the American secretary of state, received human rights awards, and traveled the world to appear on television news programs like 6. Minutes. His story helped launch an unprecedented United Nations inquiry that accused North Korea’s leaders of crimes against humanity. When I got off the phone with Shin, I contacted the Washington Post (for which I had first written about him) and released all I then knew about his revised story. Then I flew to Seoul, where Shin lives, to find out more. This foreword explains what I learned.
In two weeks of conversations, Shin was less secretive and more talkative than he had ever been during long rounds of interviews with me dating back to 2. He seemed relieved to be correcting a story he felt had become a kind of prison. Shin told me that when he defected to South Korea in 2. He hid his role in the execution of his mother and brother. He omitted a singularly painful session of torture that shattered his faith in himself.
He did not mention that he lived most of his youth in a political prison that was not Camp 1. He told this version of his life to interrogators from South Korean intelligence and the U. S. He then repeated the narrative for nearly nine years, rarely changing a single detail. Shin told me he is now determined to tell the truth. Regrettably, he has told me this before. It seems prudent to expect more revisions. Other survivors of the camps are angry at Shin, accusing him of undermining their truthfulness and weakening the international campaign to pressure North Korea to shut down the gulag.
In assessing Shin’s credibility and the changes in his story, it is important to know that he has multiple scars consistent with extreme torture. Trauma victims like him tend to struggle with the truth, especially in the linear narrative form that journalists, judges, and policy makers are best able to understand. The memories of trauma victims are often fragmented and out of sequence, and the stories they tell can be shields behind which they try to hide.“The most genuine narratives of going through political violence are never completely coherent or finalized,” said Dr. Weine, a specialist on the impact of political violence and a professor of psychiatry at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
He has treated trauma and studied trauma victims from Bosnia, Kosovo, Central Asia, and Africa. Between conversations with Shin in Seoul, I telephoned Weine and told him about Shin’s evolving story.“When someone goes through profound trauma and I don’t hear a disjointed story, I am suspicious,” he told me. We can expect that this would have a major impact on every aspect of who he is, on his memory, his emotional regulation, his ability to relate to others, his willingness to trust, his sense of place in the world, and the way he gives his testimony.”In Escape from Camp 1. I wrote that there was no way to fact- check many parts of Shin’s story because North Korea is largely closed to the outside world and it denies that political labor camps exist. But other gulag survivors had told me Shin knew things only an insider could know.
Human rights investigators who had talked with scores of camp survivors found his testimony credible and precise. When this book appeared, Shin had already become a key primary source for major reports on the North Korean gulag. Still, as I emphasized in the book, I worried about his capacity for truthfulness. I wrote that he had repeatedly lied to me. Two chapters in Escape from Camp 1. In retrospect, I should have done more to examine the psychological dimensions of his relation to truth.
It would have prepared me for what Shin disclosed in 2. Shin’s altered story.
The story Shin now tells is considerably more complex—and in some ways more disturbing—than the one he told upon his arrival in South Korea in 2. In the new version, he escaped twice to China, not once. He lived in two bordering political prison camps, Camp 1.
Camp 1. 8. In his revised story, Shin said he was born in Camp 1. His home village, he said, was then incorporated into Camp 1. North Korean government records seem to support his new version but do not conclusively prove it, as I will explain below. In any case, all the available evidence suggests that he was born and raised in a political prison. In Escape from Camp 1. Shin said that when he was a small boy in the camp, he lived among children and adults who were destined to be worked to death as slaves without any possibility of release.
As such, they were not allowed to see photographs of Great Leader Kim Il Sung or Dear Leader Kim Jong Il. But when his village became part of Camp 1. Shin said his status improved marginally.
The food was no better; indeed, he said there was less of it. Another Camp 1. 8 survivor confirms this irony, saying that because Camp 1.
In Camp 1. 8, Shin did see photos of the Kims. He was also issued, for the first time, the uniform of a North Korean school pupil. While public executions for attempted escape were common in Camp 1. Shin said that as he grew up, prisoners were paid with food coupons for their work and, over time, some were released and allowed to become ordinary residents of North Korea. These revisions in his story, while significant, do not alter the evidence of torture on Shin’s body.
Indeed, he now says he was tortured more extensively by prison guards than he had previously been willing to admit. In addition to being burned over a fire and hung by shackles from his ankles, which he had earlier described, he said guards used pliers to rip out his fingernails. Scars on his hands and the partial amputation of one finger support the claim.“Shin’s body shows more scars from torture than any camp survivor I know who has come to South Korea, and I have met almost all of them,” said Ahn Myeong Chul, a former North Korean prison guard who for seven years worked for the National Security Agency, known as the Bowibu, the feared political police force that runs the country’s most notorious prisons, including Camp 1.
Ahn is now executive director of NK Watch, a human rights group in Seoul, and knows Shin well.“The scars prove to me that Shin was tortured at a Bowibu detention center,” said Ahn, who sees Shin’s scars as signature work of his previous employer. Shin buried his memory of fingernail torture—and kept it from the world for nearly a decade—because he said it had been unbearable, physically and psychologically.“I couldn’t handle it,” he said.
The blow effectively amputated the finger up to the first knuckle. Previously, Shin had said that guards cut off that part of his finger with a knife, as punishment for dropping a sewing machine in a camp uniform factory. But he now says he made up that story because he was ashamed of how he had been “broken” by torture. In 2. 01. 0, Shin admitted to me that when he first arrived in South Korea, he concealed how his mother and brother got caught—and were later executed—for planning an escape from prison camp.
They were caught, he told me, because he betrayed their plans to a guard. An extended account of that betrayal appears in Escape from Camp 1. In our new round of interviews, Shin changed the story again, saying his role in the executions was more shameful than he could bear to admit.“I was jealous of my brother because my mother liked him more than me,” he said. She beat me much more than my brother. She never paid attention to my birthday.”Shin said that in 1. It stated that he had seen his mother and brother commit a murder. Shin said the document, which a guard asked him to sign, was important evidence for the execution.
Shin was fifteen at the time, according to a North Korean government listing of his birthdate, which says he was born on November 1. He did not live in a student dormitory in Camp 1. Camp 1. 8. During his second journey to the Chinese border, he was not “shocked” to see North Koreans shopping in street markets.
He had seen them shop before, during his first flight to China. He said he altered dates and locations for major events, such as the age at which he was tortured; he was twenty- one, not fourteen. He changed the whereabouts of the execution of his mother and brother. It occurred at an execution site beside the Taedong River in Camp 1. Camp 1. 4. When Shin began telling his story to South Korean intelligence, to human rights investigators, and to the world’s press, he said he had no idea that these details would later be considered important.
He did not know what fiction or nonfiction was. He had never read a book. He said he only learned the concept of nonfiction when I told him that’s what I had to write. Shin said he had much to be ashamed of and even more to hide when powerful people in South Korea started asking him questions. So he shaped his answers to serve his needs, not those of government interrogators, or human rights organizations, or journalists like me. As I have explained, trauma experts see nothing unusual in this.