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Inside the Creative Process: American Horror Story

Today in Jet Packs has this transcript* from the writer’s room of American Horror Story, which reveals how the new hit FX series came together. Note: contains spoilers.


We’re gonna make the scariest show on TV.

The scariest show on TV. Ever.

That’s what FX wants, and what they’re gonna get.

And they’re giving us free reign to do what we want.

We’ve got the budget, and we can go all out.

This is a show for adults.

So let’s get going. What’s scary?

An old house. A Creepy old house that’s been around forever.

That the seller bought cheap for some reason...

We’ll get back to that. It should have a scary yard.

A cemetery perhaps?

And a creepy basement.

With jars of formaldehyde.

Floating body parts in the jars!

And preserved animals

And fetuses. fetuses are freakin’ scary.

What else makes the house creepy?

How about this: a horrible murder took place there.

We can do better: horrible murders took place there.

Throughout history!
The old house would be scarier if it had creepy paintings in it.

Yeah -- paintings that the people that live there could discover.

Really fucked-up shit -- stuff that no one in their right mind would paint.

Much less hang in their living rooms... unless they were really creepy people.

And the family just moved into the house and is discovering all of this creepy shit as we are.

Like a creepy attic! We could put something scary up there.

How about some bondage gear -- that is scary and sexy at the same time. And you know that anything goes fon this network. [Laughs.]

Awesome. It’s all really coming together now. What about the peo... heh the victims?

It’s a family... with secrets.

Secrets are scary.

A mother and father with some teenage kids.

A daughter, for sure.

The daughter could be bullied at school -- bullies always scared me!

And the husband is a shrink, who always talks to people about scary stuff. Really off-the-wall twisted stuff.

And one of his patients can be a freaky kid who always talks about gruesome things and killing himself.

And he... he...

He can be the boyfriend of the daughter! And they can talk about scary things together.

...And he can talk to the Dad both about scary things -- and sexy things with his daughter.

Whoah. That is scary.

Do we need a cat? Cats always freak me out.

I dunno....

Cats are kind of cliched in horror, I think. But we should have some creepy neighbors. Neighbors that stalk them...

Or just keep showing up, unwelcome, and telling them creepy things.

Like?

“I’m gonna kill you.”

I don’t know if that makes a lot of sense unless we really flesh out their stories.

OK, how about “You’re gonna die.”

Bingo!

They could also meet former occupants of the house. But how could they be scary?

Perhaps they could be.... horribly maimed!

We should also have a creepy old butler.

Not a butler -- that’s a little too old school. How about a maid? A maid that’s been there forever and worked for some of the other scary occupants of the house.

Sounds like she’d be old. Is there a way we could make her sexy too?

I’m sure we could figure something out. Is sexy scary? I get confused...

Nope, but it’s cool in its own way.

Did I mention that there’s a monster in the basement?

Let’s make sure we shoot it all in a way so it looks as freaky as can be. Lots of jump cuts, quick edits -- stuff like that.

This is great -- we’ve got so many ideas now. Enough for the first season, at least...

First season? This is all going into the pilot.

Everything in this needs to be scary -- off-the-hook scary.

Let’s pick out only the scariest things on the list, and get the script done!

It’s gonna be awesome -- I can’t sleep already!


*Not really. This is a complete fabrication.