‘American Horror Story: Hotel’ Spoilers: Season Opener ‘Checking In’ to Feature a Series of Gruesome Deaths

By Cheri Cheng - 06 Oct '15 11:33AM
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Do not watch the season premiere of "American Horror Story: Hotel" alone.

According to the spoilers, via Christian Today, in the very first episode of season five of Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk's FX series, there will be "a chain of gruesome murders" that will lead Wes Bentley's character, Detective John Lowe directly to Hotel Cortez in Los Angeles. At the hotel, which is run by Elizabeth/The Countess played by Lady Gaga, guests can check in but they can never check out. After Lowe checks into the hotel, a series of scary and unexplainable events will occur.

Daniel Fienberg of The Hollywood Reporter provided an early review of the episode titled "Checking In" and all of its gore.

He wrote:

"When it comes to Hotel, the eyes have it. One of the season's first victims, credited only as Man Nailed to Headboard, still survives despite the removal of both his tongue and his eyes, kicking off an orgy of ocular obsession...There's a whole lot of killing going on, but I cant say for sure how many killers there are and how many of the killers are actually real and how many are stand-ins for, say, drugs and alcohol or gluttony."

THR also reported that not all of the characters will be making a cameo in the first episode.

This season is predicted to be one of the goriest and scariest ones yet. Cast member Cheyenne Jackson opened up about this season to Variety.

"It's gorier than, I think, any of them so far, and it's scarier to me because it's more psychological and not just like, blood and guts," Jackson, who is plays fashion icon Will Drake, said. "It's the stuff that effed up in your head."

Matt Bomber, who is playing a villain, added that he "definitely had to put down the first script a couple times and take a few deep breaths and then come back to it."

Bomber, known for his role on the USA Network's "White Collar," will be playing Lady Gaga's love interest, Donovan.

Aside from the gore, viewers can expect this season to be one of the sexiest ones as well.

"We have all of these beautiful men on the show, incredibly sexy men who are incredibly open, and you have Gaga who is also incredibly beautiful and sexual," Falchuk explained. "How are you going to tell a story with Matt Bomer and Lady Gaga and not have it be sexy? It's impossible. They're inherently sexy, so what are you going to do?"

 "American Horror Story: Hotel" premieres Wednesday, Oct. 7 at 10 p.m. on FX.

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