A favorite television show of many, the anthology series American Horror Story has possibly outdone itself this season with revelation after revelation and shock, after shock. American Horror Story: 1984 pays homage to the horror flicks that defined a decade and a time where coke was snorted openly, aerobics was rad, and rock ruled. American Horror Story is awesome because it is one of those TV shows that you never quite know what to expect. Season 9 of AHS wastes no time diving into the blood and guts that makes it a cult favorite amongst many. This season of AHS featured a very intricate web of lies and serial killers—a plethora of those. Pretty much every person on this show is full-blown murder crazy. There was so much going on this season that if every single thing that happened this season was discussed we would be here until next year’s season 10 premiere. Here is a recap of some of the most shocking, OMG, WTF moments that happened this season that has us still shook. The finale for American Horror Story aired November 13th, 2019 on FX.
1. Brooke and Donna are both the Final Girls.
What is the final girl? Donna explained it perfectly in episode eight “Every horror movie has a final girl. The One who survives it all and lives to tell the tale.” Even though Donna thought that a black girl would not survive to tell the tale, against all of the 80’s horror tropes, she did. Brooke and Donna went back to Camp Redwood, a place where Montana the ghost, The Night Stalker aka Richard Ramirez, as well as the real Mrs. Jingles aka Margaret booth, and new addition hitchhiker Bruce wanted to kill them and survived because that is what final girls do! #GirlPower!
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2. Margaret Booth was the real murderer in 1970.
One of the biggest OMG moments of the season was that Mr. Jingles is totally innocent in the 1970 Camp Redwood massacre. Margaret alone was fully responsible for the murder of all the camp counselors in the cabin. Later in the season, it is revealed that Mr. Jingles mother the Lady in White told Margaret in her sleep to murder all of the counselors and pin the crime on Benji because she hated him for the swimming accident at the lake that took his little brother Bobby’s life as a child. As a result, Benji was locked up in a mental institution for many years and eventually convinced through years of electroshock therapy and being told that he was the one who killed all the camp counselors.
A young Margaret Booth before her original 1970 murder spree. PC: FX
Margaret after her 1970 massacre. PC: FX
3. Montana sent the Night Stalker, Richard Ramirez, after Brooke.
It was a shock this season when we found out that Brooke was engaged to an abusive man who shot to death his best man, Brooke’s father, and himself at the altar. Brooke’s fiancée accused her and his best man of sleeping together the night before the wedding. Brooke claimed that she never slept with his best man and she was still a virgin. It was a double shock when it was revealed that Montana’s brother, Sam, was Brooke’s fiancée’s best friend from college and the best man in that deadly wedding. It turned out that Montana hated Brooke and was the one who sent The Night Stalker to Brooke’s apartment to murder her and to continue to try to kill her this season. Montana believed that Brooke lied about sleeping with her brother and therefore, was responsible for his death
Brooke and Montana. PC: FX AHS: 1984
Brooke and Richard Ramirez aka The Nightstalker faceoff. PC: FX AHS: 1984
Brooke and her fiancée before and after the wedding murder suicide. PC: FX AHS: 1984
4. 1970 was not the first massacre at Camp Redwood.
This season we found out that once upon a time in 1948, another deadly Massacre occurred when the camp was named Camp Golden Star. Benjamin who would later grow up to be known as Mr. Jingles was just a child attending the camp when his mother, the camp cook, had her own murderous rampage. In a plot similar to the 1980’s classic horror flick Friday the 13th Benji leaves his brother, Bobby unattended at the lake for a few moments when tragedy strikes and his brother is decapitated by a motorboat while swimming. Benji's mom comes running and blames the camp counselors and her son, Benjamin, for his brother’s gory demise. As revenge against the people she felt was responsible for Bobby’s death she hacks all of the camp counselors to death and attempts to murder Benji but he manages to kill her when she attacks and puts an end to the massacre.
Benji and his mother faceoff. PC: FX AHS: 1984
Benji and his mother faceoff. PC: FX AHS: 1984
Benji and his mother faceoff. PC: FX AHS: 1984
5. Brooke was held responsible for the 1984 Massacre.
Although, we know what actually happened that murder night at Camp Redwood Brooke is held responsible not just for murdering Montana (in self-defense), but for the whole massacre of the camp counselors. Margaret Booth, the true killer, once again paints herself as a victim to the police blaming Brooke and gets away with it all for a second time. We later learn that somehow Trevor miraculously survived Margaret’s attack and yet, still lets Brooke take the fall for it all. Brooke ends up going to trial and not to a mental institution like Mr. Jingles. She receives the death penalty and is executed while Margaret and Trevor watch.
Brooke being led to her execution. PC: FX AHS: 1984
6. **Bonus** Anyone who dies at Camp Redwood becomes a ghost.
Jonas, the person that Xavier hit with his van coming into Camp Redwood was, in fact, a ghost camp counselor. Apparently, for some unexplained reason anyone who dies on Camp Redwood soil does not crossover into the afterlife. That means Montana, Chet, Ray, Xavier, Birdy, real nurse Rita all of the murdered counselors from 1970 and ‘42, Jingles mom, eventually, Mr. Jingles, anyone who was unfortunate enough to stay at the rock concert in 1980, and any other random person who wandered into the camp while hiking or doing whatever, never left.
All of the ghosts at Camp Redwood gather. PC: FX AHS: 1984