In 2011, the first season of American horror stories was born, "Murder House", and since then, it has been released at a rate of one theme per season and one theme per season, and has been filmed for ten seasons so far, and has been renewed to the thirteenth season.
As the evergreen tree in the American drama, the American horror story series has a large number of fans in various countries around the world, because the play takes the route of horror and spirituality, often involves the elements of strange forces and chaotic gods, and the storyline is mixed with irony of reality, which is called "American Chat" by domestic drama fans.
Recently, the "Tenth Season of The United States Liaozhai: Double-Sided" was officially launched, and 2 episodes of resources were released first, and the current Douban score was 8.4, and the response was good. This season tells two stories, the one that takes place on the seaside is called "Red Tide", and the one that takes place in the desert is called "Death Valley", and from the early trailer, it is mainly "Kraken and Aliens", and it is not yet certain how the two stories are related.
The American Terror series is a typical group portrait drama, each character contains a huge amount of information, and likes to learn/adapt real events, although the story is purely fictional, but the plot has a realistic prototype.
Mei's usual style is to hide all the plot and themes in the trailer.
The trailer of "Red Tide" features a lot of cluttered elements, which can be roughly divided into three categories after combing:
Pianos, typewriters, violins, porcelain paintings, etc. are related to "artistic talents"; dead fish on the beach, dead birds on the ground, cut meat and ribs, squirming nematodes, etc. are related to "seaside infectious diseases"; boiling drugs, medical beakers and chemical purification devices are related to "blood extraction", and all elements are dripping with blood.
It can be seen that blood is the core clue of "Red Tide", connecting "artistic talent" and "coastal infectious disease" together to form the theme of the story.
In addition, the trailer also repeatedly appears in the "seaside lighthouse" picture and a bunch of mysterious "black pills", these two will be the key to solving the puzzle.
One: "Red Tide" - the seaside bloody case caused by the black pill.
The story begins with a typical "chatter":
A frustrated screenwriter and a family of three came to a remote but historic seaside town - Provincetown on a desolate winter day, rented an old house, and since then strange things have happened, and the family of three has gradually discovered the dark secrets of the town...
This begins with a tribute to The Shining, where the writers' families are on their way into the town, and dead animals appear on the side of the road, which is like a countdown, indicating that the family will gradually fall into a whirlpool.
The first 2 episodes of the show are fast-paced, and the writers' family goes from encountering dead animal corpses, to being frightened by vampire-like wanderers, to being stimulated by human corpses with their stomachs disemboweled on the seashore, and finally to the violent attacks of wanderers, and the pressure on the protagonist's family gradually escalates, but they can't escape.
The story begins with a story about the protagonist's family's financial constraints and career collapse:
The man is a third-rate screenwriter who is on the verge of unemployment, and this time he came to the seaside town to find a quiet place to create a "pilot episode" - this is his last chance to keep his job.
The hostess has lost her job and is pregnant with a child, and can only prepare to engage in decorative design work while giving birth, but she has not been optimistic and recognized.
The youngest daughter likes to play the violin, inspired to become the main violinist of the top orchestra at the age of 18, but the talent is limited, the family can not afford to hire a personal trainer, can only practice hard, but always can not be done.
The family of three all worked in art-related work, but none of them seemed to be highly talented. The man is the most stressed and eager to succeed as the head of the family, so when he "meets" successful playwrights and erotic novelist predecessors in the town hotel, it is logical.
The screenwriter's family is repeatedly pulled by the pressure line and the hope line, and they are always on the verge of fleeing, but they do not have the confidence to completely escape.
In the end, the playwright retained the male protagonist with a black pill, this mysterious pill is a "smart medicine" that can amplify the talent, as long as you take it, you can think of it and write a wonderful masterpiece.
Under the pressure of the agent's urging, the male protagonist risked eating one, and quickly wrote a good script that moved him to cry, Hollywood superstars and Netflix companies have issued cooperation invitations, and the long-dreamed success has suddenly arrived!
The author is also a writer, in the face of this miracle drug, it is estimated that any writer can not resist, but any beautiful thing has a price.
The price of taking pills is that you must regularly suck human blood, otherwise you will never be able to write again. The opportunity to make a name for himself was at hand, how could it stop, and the man quickly gave in after a slight struggle and joined the playwright's hunt for the living.
What's even more frightening is that his little daughter stole one of his pills and enjoyed the pleasure of playing the piano smoothly. The family sank deeper and deeper into the bloodthirsty vortex and could never come out again...
There is a classic line in the play, which may be the theme of "Red Tide": nothing is more addictive than success.
The above briefly talked about the protagonist's family, in fact, the amount of information in the first two episodes is very large, in addition to the layout in the play, the main creator also launched a radio drama "KPCD666 Radio Station", this radio station is in Provincetown, the radio station has a "Puzhen moment" program, broadcasting "road information" and "daily warning" every day, through each 5-10 minutes of audio broadcasting, inadvertently revealed the secrets of the town, and formed a linkage with the TV series, has launched three issues.
Through the information of TV dramas and radio dramas, we can know the history of the seaside town:
The town is located in Massachusetts (Cthulhu is also in this state), and the dimension is high, so the winters are particularly cold and long. People in the fishing moratorium gradually fell into depravity on the long winter night, drugs began to flood, and then a black pill that inspired creation was born, which was obviously also a drug.
The black pill gives the town a lethal appeal, attracting art circles and unemployed vagrants who belong to outsiders. The townspeople's natives are bystanders who know the inside story of artists but look at them coldly, such as supermarket owners and real estate agents. Together, these three forces form the ecology of the town's winter nights.
Bloodthirsty artists come here only in winter every year, regularly "creating" new artists, such as male protagonists. But they set the rule that the indigenous people would not move and only hunt the foreign nomads.
This didn't change until a year ago:
First, a foreign black female sheriff replaced the old local sheriff. The black sheriff, who had worked in Orange for 15 years, suddenly resigned a year ago to apply for a job in the town, and when the man's family encountered strange things, she was also deliberately hiding the truth of the town, and she must be hiding a bigger secret behind her.
Second, the playwrights say that because of the "electronic stream," they have to make more of their kind. What the electron stream has to do with the black pill, and whether it is related to aliens, will be an important foreshadowing.
The vampires in the play seem to be divided into two grades, talented and untalented, and the group of zombie-like wanderers is the "untalented kind". After the untalented people take the black pill, they will continue to mutate and gradually lose consciousness. Wanderers distinguish each other by smell and light, and after the male protagonist takes the medicine, the wanderers stop attacking; many families in the town have red lights at night at the door, which should be a signal sign.
Third: Lyme disease - coastal infectious disease.
Lyme disease is a zoonotic infectious disease, mainly transmitted by tick bites, and clinically manifested by chronic erythema migratory, arthritis, cardiovascular and nervous system damage to multiple organs and systems.
The zombie state of the wanderers is quite in line with the clinical manifestations of Lyme disease, and they can only eat small animals without drinking human blood, which is also in line with the transmission chain of Lyme disease.
The beginning of the play repeatedly talks about Lyme disease, and the hostess repeatedly checks the information, which must be an important foreshadowing. Nematodes also appear in the trailer, dead fish that rush ashore in the ocean, and these can be strung together. Moreover, the little daughter also ate small animals at the end of the second episode, and this line should be related to the direction of the ocean in the future.
There are 3 important characters who have not yet appeared in the play:
One is an agent, as the boss of the male protagonist, she must have contacted more people in the art circle, and must have heard rumors of black pills. The screenwriter may have deliberately arranged for the screenwriter to come to the town to create, and now the curious cat will come to the door in person.
The second is the pharmacist, which is directly related to the origin of the black pill.
The third was an old gentleman, presumably the president of the town council. Black Pills can be popular in the town, the local real power must be involved, and episode 4 of the play will reveal the dark secrets of the town. Moreover, in chapter 3 of the radio drama, it is mentioned that the town council imposed a "curfew" on the indigenous people, which indicates that the security situation at night has further deteriorated and greater unrest is about to occur.
Talk about the real events involved in the first 2 episodes: the Truro Monster and the Abington Town Shooting Murder.
Truro monster is a widely spread horror legend in the place of the incident, in 1981 there was a series of animal killings in the local area, the murderer has not been found, the local residents have seen the mysterious monster many times, and this incident eventually became a headless case.
The animals that die many times in the play are the legends that use the Truro monster.
In the play, the male protagonist once questioned the police, there was just a murder case in the local area, a family of 5 was killed, and the murderer has not been caught so far. The bloody case topped the list of Crimes in Cape Koro and became known as the Truro Massacre.
The incident should be based on the 2019 Abington town shooting murder. The story in the play takes place in the same place as the town of Abington, Massachusetts, not far away, and the shooting is also a family of five deaths, the murderer has not been found.
Interpreting the real case with a fictional story is the best skill of the United States, and I don't know how the play will interpret these two headless cases.
II: Death Valley - President of the United States, Aliens, and Area 51.
The official trailer for the second story has not yet come out, and there are only a few tens of seconds of the teaser trailer, as if the story will be black and white images.
It is certain that Death Valley will feature 3 historical figures: the legendary female pilot Amelia. Earhart, U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower, and President's wife, Mamie. Eisenhower. Marilyn Monroe and Kennedy are also said to appear.
Amelia. Earhart was the first female pilot to fly across the Atlantic, but she was hit by an unidentified current jam during a 1937 circumnavigation of the globe, disrupted communications with headquarters, and disappeared over the Solomon Islands, becoming a famous unsolved case in history.
Eisenhower has more secrets, and the US Department of Defense advisers have revealed that in 1954, Eisenhower had three secret meetings with aliens.
It all started with the Roswell Affair of 1947.
Roswell, New Mexico, is a mecca for UFO researchers because of the crash of flying saucers here in 1947, and there are even claims of surviving aliens.
This incident caused an uproar among the American people, directly leading to the launch of the "Blue Book Project".
The purpose of the Blue Book project is to reprocess UFO information and establish confidential files, the original intention of the plan is to create some nonsense smoke bombs, reduce the public's enthusiasm for UFOs, but unexpectedly greatly stimulated the public's interest in flying saucers and alien creatures.
At the same time as the Blue Book Project was implemented, the famous Area 51 in the United States was born.
Area 51 is a research base in Nevada, USA, which houses a nuclear weapons test site, a military test site, and a variety of cutting-edge technology research and development centers. District 51 was established in 1950, but it wasn't publicly acknowledged until 2013 that the blockade of decades of mysterious forbidden areas sparked numerous rumours, most notably about aliens.
Eisenhower was elected president in 1954, and at the beginning of his presidency he made a high-profile announcement that he would conduct a thorough investigation into the "Roswell Incident", but was opposed by intelligence agencies and the military, and later stopped.
With the popularity of the "Blue Book Project" and "Area 51" rumors, it is widely believed that Eisenhower must have hidden secrets about aliens.
The second story is called Death Valley, and there is indeed a Death Valley in the United States, located next to Area 51. Judging from the trailer, there is the president of the United States, there is a mysterious experiment and the glare of the flying saucer coming, and there is no doubt that the aliens are properly aliens.
Since the fourth season, the United States has linked other seasons, and only the second season of the entire series of American Fear has aliens. The actor who played the president of the United States in "Death Valley" once made a cameo role in the final episode of "Madhouse", appearing when the reporter returned to the madhouse.
In this way, "Death Valley" will most likely link up with "Madhouse", depending on what kind of story the screenwriter can make up.
Finally, let's talk about the soul of American horror stories - Jessica. Lange, the "Aunt Lan" in the hearts of movie fans.
She became the heroine of "King Kong" in 1976 (this version of King Kong is more colorful), in the 90s after the Oscars, and later starred in the first four seasons of the United States, playing a very avant-garde role. She is still active in the film industry, which fully shows that charm and sexiness can break through the age limit.