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trip through Ryan Murphy's horror
anthology playbook and take a look at
the top 5 scariest american horror story
moments roll the clip since its
inception in 2011 Ryan Murphy's American
Horror Story has had as transfixed as we
flick through his bizarre horror filled
multiverse murder house asylum coven
freakshow Hotel the lost Roanoke colony
cooked and the most recent apocalypse
through them we've had an absolutely
mammoth cast of creepy and freaky
characters most of which either end up
mad or dead but most importantly they
scare their ever living bejesus out of
us well without further delay let's take
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with the show kicking off at number 5
Elsa's legs freak show the people
outside this tent in your town in all
these little towns for the vast majority
of season 4 Jessica Lange's matriarchal
character Elsa Mars remained very much a
mystery it wasn't until the second part
of freak shows action-packed Halloween
episode that we actually understand what
a horrific past that she was dealing
with she's a German woman missing the
bomb parts of her legs who desperately
tragically wants to be the star
performer in her own show but then we
rapidly and very vividly understand how
she originally got a thirst for the
spotlight in 1932 she was the biggest
attraction and anything goes sex club in
vemma not as a singer or curious
debutante but a top-billed dominatrix
it was notorious for her methods of
humiliation and torture her act was so
popular throughout the underground of
Germany that she attracted a cult
following watching her perform her
painstaking acts but those fans quickly
and tragically consumed her rise to fame
giving her the star role in her ghastly
debut movie a snuff film where Elsa Mars
was drugged and then had her legs cut
off by a chainsaw for me this is
personally one of the worst items on
this list and a rare moment when
American Horror Story legitimately made
my stomach turn coming in at number four
Shelley's painful climb asylum if you
ask anyone worth their salt they'll all
tell you that season 2 asylum was
undoubtedly the greatest season so far
of American Horror Story and as of yet
still hasn't been topped Asylum had a
lot a lot of stuff going on we had rasp
as satanic nuns Nazi doctors lobotomies
and the horrifying visage of bloody face
oh and also aliens yeah
throughout this campaign of madness
though one of the most terrifying turns
is with Shelley played by Chloe Sevigny
a nymphomaniac who was wrongly
institutionalized and falls into the
hands of the twisted dr. Arden who
brutally amputates her legs and gives
her injections that rapidly turn her
into a rasp ER a grotesque and deform
result of his sadistic experiments but
it's what happened next that turned up
the horror story moment to stop her from
being discovered by sister Jude sister
Mary Eunice aka Satan dunk Shelley an
elementary school yard of all places and
she's discovered by a bunch of poor
unassuming school children playing in
the yard what a way to start the day
next up anima 3 Delphine's attic of
horrors cover
for me covent was a close second in the
Horror Story rankings for several
reasons but it was Kathy Bates debut
performance on the roster that really
took the prize as the sadistic and
brutal aristocratic serial killer Madame
Delphine LaLaurie based on the monstrous
historical murder of the same name in
reality alongside the legends that are
still heard in many parts of southern
USA Madame LaLaurie was discovered to
have tortured hundreds of slaves
supposedly mutilating some of them in
her attic in the show we're hit very
quickly with this stark truth with
Delphine's attic in her Royal Street
mansion harboring a different kind of
evil all sorts of torture cages and iron
restraints being host to a barbaric
murder campaign perhaps the most
wretched part of this story though is
the Minotaur scene where Valerie finds
one of her daughters with Bastian Lowrey
beats him chains him in the attic and
forces a small boy to place a
hollowed-out bulls head on top of his
thankfully though Valerie finally gets
her just desserts in a perfectly apt
personal hell Sweeney now at number two
twist his picnic freakshow
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we can't have a list that doesn't
feature the personification of hora
himself twisty the clown twisty played
by the awesome John Carroll Lynch is
perhaps one of the most iconic
characters throughout the entire
American Horror Story franchise because
you know murderous clowns just kind of
have that reputation well anytime in
season four that we saw a young couple
splayed romantically on a blanket having
a picnic we soon knew what to expect
next there's a few seconds where you
think that maybe just maybe twisty won't
brutally murder that nice young couple
in the first episode but then he bashes
their heads in with a bowling pin and
ravages the boyfriend with a pair of
scissors it's kind of reminiscent of the
start picnic murder in zodiac which
incidentally also starred John Carroll
Lynch who know twisty the clown is a
difficult one because in the long and
short he had a really messed-up back
story and American Horror Story did a
fantastic job of exploring the origins
of his murderous campaign we kind of
felt bad for him especially in the scene
where he explains his misunderstood
shall we say motivations to Edward
mordrake that his intention was always
to make kids smile well they all ended
up crying but top marks forever I guess
and finally our number 1 spot threatens
basement asylum
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she won't pay
because zachary quinto just can't help
playing a terrifyingly convincing serial
killer and the events that transpire
after he reveals to Lana that he is
indeed bloody face are some of the most
disturbing and horrific that rhyme
Murphy and Brad Falchuk have managed to
muster through our eight seasons of
horror stories in Episode five I am and
Frank part two we think that Lana played
by the awesome Sarah Paulson is finally
in the clear after being wrongfully
sectioned at Briarcliff Manor but no of
course not because it's episode five and
we know that the happy ending is a long
long way off first Lana notes is a
curious lampshade made from what appears
to be human skin and the candy bowl that
resembles a piece of skull it's
reminiscent of something straight out of
Ed Gein's living room and we as an
audience slowly dawn on the fact that
Zachary Quintos dr. dresdin
is the murderous skin wearing bloody
face of course there's a scene where she
falls through the trapdoor and Lana
finds the dead body of her girlfriend
Wendy
but then the horror really gets turned
up to 11 and I just kind of want to
block that whole episode out of my
memory really yeah enough for that
unfortunately horror fans that's all
we've got time for in today's video
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