American Horror Story

American Horror Story

TV Show (2011)

The nightmare of your dreams.

An anthology horror drama series centering on different characters and locations, including a house with a murderous past, an asylum, a witch coven, a freak show, a hotel, a farmhouse in Roanoke, a cult, the apocalypse and a summer camp.

Drama
Mystery
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Returning Series
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Family guidance

Ages 17+

The show is designed to shock with a variety of scary, disturbing, and graphic scenes across different settings. Frequent use of strong language ranging from s--t to c--ksucker.

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Content details to help you decide what fits your child.

Sex & Nudity

Includes sex, masturbation, partial nudity, bondage, sexual violence, rape scenes, gang rape, and bestiality/incest aspects.

Violence & Gore

Sudden and shocking incidents involve blood, real and supernatural violence, acid attacks, amputations, shock therapy, high school shootings, vampirism, cannibalism, and realistic animal bodies.

Profanity

Frequent use of strong language ranging from s--t to c--ksucker.

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

Imagery related to drinking, injections, snorting cocaine, and smoking pot.

Frightening Scenes

The show is designed to shock with a variety of scary, disturbing, and graphic scenes across different settings.

Positives & learning

Positive messages

Emphasizes the value of families, balanced by less positive messages about earthly life being full of everyday horrors.

Role models

Most characters have unchangeable major flaws, and there are outright villains and untrustworthy authority figures.

Representation

Features characters from different racial backgrounds, complex queer characters, and diverse body sizes, though most leads are White and some disabilities are used for gruesome purposes.

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