2011年，這部被國內美劇迷譽為“美國版聊齋”的恐怖靈異類美劇《美國恐怖故事》橫空出世，并以“一年一季”的頻次穩(wěn)定輸出。
這一次，它雖被疫情耽擱遲到了一年，但專屬AHS粉的驚喜和期待還是如約而至，今年萬圣節(jié)，夠膽你就來看——
Double Feature Season 10 (2021)
這一季正如其名“雙面”——是由兩個故事組成的，分別為《赤潮》（Red Tide）和《死亡谷》（Death Valley）。
從海報上就不難猜到，一個關于外星人，一個……大概就是講吸血鬼了。為啥美恐這一季突然變成了兩個風格迥異的故事了？《Newsweek》貼心的為我們解釋了：
The fact that American Horror Story Season 10 would be split in two was teased by this season's title, "Double Feature."
《美恐》第十季被分成兩個故事的原因，且看它的標題《雙面》就能知一二。
AHS creator Ryan Murphy has been teasing that Season 10 would tell two stories since the end of the 1984 season in 2019. In a Variety interview, he said that he was toying with "dealing with two ideas and I lean towards whichever is more in my brain right now."
其實在2019年播出的第九季《美恐：1984》結尾，導演Ryan Murphy就開玩笑說，到了第十季可能要講兩個故事了。在接受Variety 采訪時他就戲稱“當下腦子里兩個都很不錯的設想在‘爭寵’，自己也在想哪個會更勝一籌?！?/span>
In doing this, the show is also paying tribute to Hollywood history. The season is named Double Feature after a marketing gimmick movie theaters in the U.S. used to bring people in during the Great Depression and for the next few decades afterwards.
當然了，拍兩個故事的做法也是在致敬好萊塢歷史。“Double Feature”（雙面，雙重放映）其實是美國大蕭條時期美國影院的一種做法，并在接下來的幾十年里亦如此。
A double feature would see a theater offering two films for the price of one. Sometimes this would be a lower-budget "b" picture (which is where the phrase "B-movie" comes from) followed by a higher-budget "a" picture. Other times, it would be two genre movies together, be it sci-fi (which inspired the Rocky Horror song "Science Fiction Double Feature") or horror (which inspired American Horror Story Season 10).
“雙重放映”即用看一部的錢看兩部電影（雙片聯(lián)映），通常以一部低成本B級片作為開幕，然后接著放相對高預算的A類電影。其他時候，也指兩種截然不同類型的電影放在一起播，比如科幻（啟發(fā)了《洛基恐怖秀》的歌曲《Science Fiction Double Feature》的誕生）或是恐怖（比如說，啟發(fā)了美恐第十季的誕生）。
處在失業(yè)邊緣的三流編劇男主帶著一家三口來到海濱小鎮(zhèn)-普羅溫斯敦，希望借這里的清靜環(huán)境激發(fā)靈感，安心創(chuàng)作，保一口飯吃。
慘的不止男主一人，他的妻子大著肚子還失業(yè)了，準備從事裝飾設計類的工作，卻一直得不到認可。
女兒也面臨著“理想很豐滿，現(xiàn)實很骨感”的現(xiàn)狀：空有一腔對拉小提琴的熱情，奈何天賦有限，家里也請不起私教，默默耕耘卻反復不得門道。
偶然的機會，男主被一位劇作家蠱惑，得知了“黑色藥丸”的存在，聽說只要吃下，就能放大天賦，收獲成功：
男主吃了嗎？當然。但你作弊了就要付出代價——如果沒有定期吸食人血，那你的天賦很快就會枯竭……
可怕的是，在小鎮(zhèn)上還游走著的這些光頭尖牙怪，他們的存在似乎和“黑色藥丸”有脫不開的關系：
自己的小女兒也在欲望的驅使下服用了藥丸，后果更是不堪設想：
“赤潮”在美恐中的存在很特別，很顯然，他是一個披著恐怖外衣深耕人性的故事，這也是美恐導演Ryan Murphy在創(chuàng)作瓶頸期做出的一次大膽嘗試：
我們將看到大量歷史人物出鏡，和他們真真假假的都市傳說交織在一起：
AHS Has Eisenhower Take On Aliens
The moment is an attempted explanation of a longstanding mystery about Ike, as in 1954, he really was whisked away from a golf outing in Palm Springs in the middle of the night for what the public was told was a dental emergency. The details of the incident have never been made clear.
美國第34位總統(tǒng)艾森豪威爾身上長期為人所津津樂道的一大謎團，就是1954年，他確實在半夜于棕櫚泉外出后消失了，官方對外稱他去看了牙醫(yī)，但其中細節(jié)至今依舊是模凌兩可。
注：據(jù)稱，艾森豪威爾的這次外出是為了去愛華斯空軍基地秘密會見兩名「外星人」。
AHS Introduces Mamie Eisenhower
The First Lady is depicted in similarly glowing terms as her husband: quiet, sensible and still deeply in love with Ike after so many years.
這位夫人這些年來為人所贊譽的和他丈夫差不多：話不多，通情達理，和丈夫恩愛多年。
Season 10, Episode 8, "Inside" reveals a dark secret, however. The aliens have taken control over her, and are using her to work their will.
在第十季第八集Inside披露了一大陰謀，就是外星人帶走并控制了她，利用她，讓她替他們完成心愿。
AHS Solves Amelia Earhart’s Disappearance
Of the episode’s three historic figures, Earhart is the most mysterious and perhaps the most deeply connected to American Horror Story’s alien mythology. She and her navigator Fred Noonan mysteriously disappeared in 1937 while attempting to circumnavigate the globe.?
在劇中出現(xiàn)的三名歷史人物中，埃爾哈特應該是神秘色彩最重，和美恐的外星人傳說糾纏最深的一位了。她和領航員努南在1937年環(huán)球飛行途中原地消失了。
The presumption was that their plane went down in the Pacific Ocean. Her destination, Howland Island, was a small speck of land, and if she and Noonan missed their navigation point, they would have likely crashed in the ocean and drowned.
有推測稱他們的飛機跌落太平洋。她的目的地豪蘭島只是一小塊面積的島嶼，如果錯失導航點，他們就會直接墜海。
注：埃爾哈特的消失是歷史上著名的懸案。在劇中改編為其被外星人抓獲并做實驗。
走到第十季，美恐在劇迷心中的口碑早已褒貶不一，不過就像豆瓣網(wǎng)友評價的那樣，好像每一年等待與它見面的儀式感，勝過了一切：
