American Horror Stories returns with Henry Winkler, Michael Imperioli, Debby Ryan, Victor Garber and more for when its five-episode season releases for what’s being billed as a Hulaween event.
The series — a spinoff of Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk’s award-winning anthology series American Horror Story — features a different horror story in each of its standalone episodes.
The minute-and-a-half look at the upcoming installment, premiering Oct. 15 as part of Hulu’s Halloween lineup, teases new takes on classic horror tropes such as “don’t look under the bed,” a scary figure appearing in the mirror and a woman appearing in an empty parking lot late at night.
“When she dreams, things happen,” a nurse tells Ryan’s character. “What kind of things?” she replies, before a scene plays of her in bed with a man who is pulled under the bed.
In another look at the anthology series, Garber is seen being activated by a button on the side of his neck before trying to stab someone with a knife. “My purpose is to love you,” he says before attempting to strangle someone else.
About halfway through the trailer, a black-and-white scene shows a man in a hospital bed, begging someone not to kill him. “Kill you? I hardly know you,” says Winkler in his trailer debut, donning an eye patch.
While the look at the series doesn’t reveal too much else about the individual episodes, it does feature what appear to be the episode titles: “The Thing Under the Bed,” “Backrooms,” “Clone,” “Leprechaun” and “X.”
Dyllón Burnside, Jeff Hiller, Jessica Barden, Angel Bismark Curiel, Guy Burnet and June Squibb also star in season four of American Horror Stories, which is executive produced by Murphy, Falchuk, Alexis Martin Woodall, Max Winkler, Jon Robin Baitz and Manny Coto.
This is the latest series launching from prolific producer Murphy this fall, who debuted in September FX‘s American Sports Story: Aaron Hernandez, Netflix’s Monsters: The Erik and Lyle Menendez Story, FX’s Grotesquerie, Fox’s 9-1-1 and ABC’s Doctor Odyssey.
American Horror Stories falls under his American Story franchise banner, which also includes American Horror Story, American Crime Story and will next include American Love Story.