Ryan Murphy spins a lot of telly plates. He’s got American Horror Story, American Crime Story, the new American Sports Story and Monsters now becoming an anthology on Netflix. Not content with all that, he has also just dropped Grotesquerie – a dark, horror tinged serial killer story. Grotesquerie has received a lot of comparisons to American Horror Story due to its tone, and Ryan Murphy has now clapped back, absolutely fuming, declaring they’re nothing alike.
Speaking to Deadline about the comparisons between Grotesquerie and American Horror Story, Ryan Murphy “strongly disagrees” and clapped back saying ““Grotesquerie has nothing in common with American Horror Story. It just does not. I think it’s the difference between doing Don’t Look Now and Halloween would could never have fit into that show. It was never considered for that. It’s a much different animal.
“I think the thing that does overlap is my interest in my tone and my casting and the world building and all that stuff,” he said. “When it came out, and I started to hear about that, because I don’t read anything, I was like, ‘What are you talking about? No, it’s nothing like that.’
FX Chief John Landgraf agreed with Ryan Murphy, saying American Horror Story is “a straightforward horror structure with very inventive tone and setting and visual language and characters.”
“[Grotesquerie] is not that. You already can see that it’s absolutely not. It’s totally an existential thing. It’s more like Get Out or something that’s filled with misdirection and social commentary, and it’s not an And Then There Were None-type horror,” he continued. “So I can understand, certainly, you sympathize with people who got confused by it, because it’s nominally horror, but it’s really its own, totally different thing. I think it would have done a disservice both American Horror Story and Grotesquerie to put it in there, because it’s not just a subset of American Horror Story. It’s its own, wholly different thing.”
Well, there we are. I still do kind of think they’re similar, though. Sorry, Ryan.
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