These American Horror Story: Freak Show Clown Promos Are the Best/Worst Things

Mission accomplished! These promos for the new season of the FX hit are terrifying

By Chris Harnick Sep 05, 2014 2:30 PMTags
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American Horror Story: Freak Show, send in the clowns!

Oh no. Just kidding. American Horror Story: Freak Show, please keep those clowns to yourself! To quote Valerie Cherish: "We don't want to see that!"

FX's latest teasers for the fourth season of American Horror Story will change the way you look at the circus staples...or just confirm how you've always felt. Yikes. The latest teasers only confirm what so many connected with the show have been saying: This season will be scarier than Coven.

Emma Roberts, who joined the cast of AHS for Coven, returns for Freak Show and told us it's definitely darker than the campy witch season. "I have to say, Freak Show is really scarier...I read the script and I was having nightmares," she said.

In American Horror Story: Freak Show, Jessica Lange plays Elsa Mars, the owner of one of the last remaining freak shows in America. The season is set in the 1950s and also stars Kathy Bates, Sarah Paulson, Angela Bassett, Frances Conroy, Evan Peters and Denis O'Hare. Matt Bomer and Patti LaBelle will guest star. The cast will play various "freaks," with Bates, who just took home an Emmy for her Coven role, playing the bearded lady. Bassett will play a woman with three breasts and newcomer Michael Chikliswill play a strongman. And since it's an old-timey freak show, expect clowns.

Here's another new promo with a sword swallower.

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Lange has been with the show since the start and won two Emmys for her work, one for the first and her second for playing aging supreme witch Fiona in American Horror Story: Coven. In the past, she said Freak Show would be her last season with the show, but her cast mates are hoping otherwise. Bet these clowns aren't doing a lot to sway her.

Oh boy.

American Horror Story: Freak Show premieres Oct. 8 at 10 p.m. on FX.

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