Jeri Jacquin
Do you have the spine to be chilled once again? Good!
Because 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment and co-creator Ryan
Murphy has brought to Bluray the frights with AMERICAN HORROR STORY: Roanoke – The Complete
Season 6.
Making a documentary about married couple Shelby (Lily Rabe
& Sarah Paulson as Lana Tindall) and Matt Miller (Andre Holland & Cuba
Gooding Jr. as Dominc Banks) tell their story about My Roanoke Nightmare. Venture from Los Angeles
to North Carolina ,
the couple find a worn down farmhouse believing they can remake it into their
dream home. Their dream turns into a freakish nightmare!
Matt asks his sister Lee (Adina Porter & Angela Bassett
as Monet Tumusiime) to keep Shelby
company but the two women do not like one another. That might not matter
considering what is to happen next! Almost immediately a group of people come
into the house and leave behind a video of what can only be considered a
murder. Matt isn’t sure what is happening when he returns but Shelby isn’t
having it and takes off in Matt’s car which leads to another witnessing of
horror.
Both Matt and Shelby believe that everything they
experienced was stages as a way to force them out of the house. Calling the
police, the couple think they now have a handle on it all. Lee brings her
daughter Flora to the house on a visit. Down in the cellar the couple find more
recordings and realize they were made by the previous owner. Not happy about
the new find, the couple knows they can’t just financially walk away.
It becomes clear that Flora is visiting her mother Lee
against the child custody agreement with her ex-husband. Lee is willing to do
that to spend more time with Flora but the young girl seems to have made
friends with a little girl named Priscilla. Lee discovers that Priscilla isn’t
exactly human and finds Flora’s hoodie in the highest tree tops but the girl is
no where to be found.
To make matters worse, Shelby
is beginning to suspect that Lee might have had something to do with her ex’s
unexpected death. Lee is more interested in finding Flora and hires Cricket
(Leslie Jordan) to use her psychic abilities to local the girl. That’s when
they discover that Pricilla is a young girl from the 16th Century
who tells the story of ‘The Butcher’ Thomasin White (Kathy Bates and as Agnes
Winstead) of the Roanoke Colony.
Leading her people, Thomasin is left behind as her husband
and forces her to look for a way to survive. In doing so she gave herself to a
force that relocated everyone to the farmhouse where Shelby and Matt now live.
If that doesn’t cause those in the house worry, Matt is caught by Shelby in the forest and
the police show up to arrest Lee.
Dr. Cunningham (Denis O’Hare) arrives at the house and
actually saves Shelby
from the attack the creature with the body of a man and the head of a pig. He
explains the horrifying events in the house and the history of the house. He
tells them that all of what is happening
is due to Thomasin. Leading them to Flora turns out to be a big mistake as
Cricket comes to know who the true Roanoke
leaders is and what happened to the colony. Thomasin doesn’t have time for
stories and surrounds the house letting them know she has Flora.
But there is more than Thomasin’s story as Doris Kearns
Goodwin reveals that the house was once owned by Edward Philippe Mott (Evan
Peters). He used the house for affairs and art and also taken by Thomasin and
put through her horrors during the Blood Moon. Trying to help him escape only
leads to the Polk family kidnapping Lee and Shelby. At the fire in front of the
Miller’s, Ambrose (West Bentley) does the one thing that could end the
nightmare and Lee arrives to flee with the Shelby and Matt.
The story and documentary of My Roanoke Nightmare turns out to be a bigger success than anyone
could have anticipated. So much so that a net idea Return to Roanoke: Three Days in Hell brings the actors back to
stay during the Blood Moon. The shows producer really wants to expose Lee for
murder and Shelby
isn’t thrilled about returning with Matt. The actors and crew prepare for the
next part of the filming and it doesn’t take long for things to begin
happening.
Rory who played Edward Philippe Mott in the original series
starts off the madness but Agnes who played Thomasin is further out of reach
than the crew could have imagined. Shelby
is shocked to learn that the only reason Matt has returned is for Scathach
(Lady Gaga), the woman in the woods. That is the least of her worries as the
Polk family has a score to settle and meat is on the menu.
Escaping the bloody nightmare at the farmhouse isn’t going
to be easy, it isn’t going to be clean and no one is spared from the madness of
horror. Even after everything that has taken place, something draws people back
as television specials are created returning to the farmhouse to try and
understand what happened.
But on the hilltop there is a face that knows exactly what
happened!
Other cast include Cheynne Jackson as Sidney James, Frances
Conroy & Robin Weigert as Mama Polk, Finn Wittrock as Jether Polk, Colby
French as the Police Officer, Grady Richmond as Ishmael Polk, Orson Chaplin as
Cain Polk and Estelle Hermansen as Priscilla.
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AHS: Roanoke Bluray includes the
Special Features of The Paley Center
for Media: Q & A with Cast and Creative Team from PaleyFest 2017, American
Horror Story: Roanoke
This is an amazing group of talented actors pulling off the
crazy impossible! Having two people play two of the same characters in a
reality style documentary with the same thing happening again only to come back
and live the nightmare for real by both the real people and the actors that
portrayed them is absolutely brilliant.
I adore Kathy Bates and this is one of the reasons why (as
if there needs to be a reason). The characters of Thomasin and Agnes are full
of emotion, rage, frightening calm and a couple of hundreds years of relenting
anger to work through. There isn’t anything this actress can’t do and on her
seasons of AMERICAN HORROR STORY she continues to prove it time and time again.
I have to say, I kind of love her portrayal of Thomasin – does that make me
scary?!
Paulson as Audrey, Lana and Shelby – she gets to really rack
up the frequent horror miles! Once again her characters are put through the
ringer and Paulson takes it all in stride. She has the amazing ability to show
so much threw her eyes and when her character goes stone cold – so is Paulson’s
ability to make that a shivering thing to watch. Rabe as ‘real’ Shelby is solid and just
so lovely to watch – until it gets brutal!
Gooding Jr. gets to run through the crazy that is AHS and he
seems to fit right in. He is an actor playing a real character by reenacting
the real characters horror. Well, there you go! Simple right? Gooding Jr. takes
his role and gives it such a smooth spin. Holland
as the real Matt tells his story but comes back to a place for very selfish
reasons and, as we all know, being selfish has its draw backs.
Peters as Rory and Mott gets a chance to go completely out
there with these characters. Starting out in AHS as a youngster, he has
repeatedly brought more and more excellence as an actor. I do love to watch him
take his characters and go as far as I think he can and then surprise me going
even further. Bentley as Dylan and Ambrose White has the unique ability to
freeze me while he is performing. Of course it could be those eyes but his
talent is equally frosty!
Bassett as Monet as Lee isn’t holding back either. Playing
Lee she brings that disturbed character to a higher level and this is the
perfect actress to do it. What is amazing is the switching between Adina
Porter’s Lee character and Bassett – they are both just so frakken fantastic.
Lady Gaga gets her chance to be horrifying as Scathach and
there isn’t anything wrong with her performance in the slightest. O’Hare as Dr.
Cummingham/William van Henderson is always a joy to see and I love how
different he is with each season of AHS.
This season is particularly full of twists, turns, stellar
performances, shocks, jaw drops, fantastic locations, creative mythology and so
much more. Go back to the story that threw audiences for a loops with AMERICAN
HORROR STORY: Roanoke
– The Complete Season 6.
In the end – life imitates grisly reality television!
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