Not only is the plot set in the eighties, but the season is completely done in that style and looks almost as if it was filmed then. From opening credits, through music, costumes, hairstyles, and the script in the style of cult slashers, the ninth season of AHS is a time machine to my favorite decade and caricatured clichés of the eighties simply scream in your face. At the beginning, it seems like just another stupid slasher, but soon it starts to line up fun and, if you've watched enough old horror movies, witty twists and turns and becomes a rather complex homage-parody of slasher horrors of the last century, which uses the most worn-out cliches of the genre in a new and unexpected way. Towards the end of the season, they start to overdo it, just enough to kill a potential nine on solid
7/10.
7/10.