American Horror Story has been simultaneously delighting and terrifying its audience for five seasons now, but at present, the series is offering enigmatic anticipation. In the lead-up to season 6, FX has been toying with fans by releasing teasers and posters that are not actually related to the upcoming installment’s theme. With two more promos released today, the mystery continues.
The new promos, Anthology and The Harvest, are very different. While the former shows off elements from American Horror Story installments past, the latter introduces a group of creepy straw men who look as if they may be being herded by a young girl carrying a scythe. Both videos are creepy of course, but neither confirms the season 6 theme once and for all.
The network is enjoying the tease, and fans seem to be, too, based on their comments online. There has been plenty of speculation, and FX has offered some clues to stoke the flames.
“We just thought it would be really fun to keep it a mystery this year. And we are,” FX CEO John Landgraf told reporters during the network’s August 9 TCA, according to Variety. “They went out and made many more trailers than you’ve actually seen for hypothetical seasons of American Horror Story. One of them is accurate.”
At the time Landgraf made his comment, he said that none of the teasers that had been released to that point revealed the true season 6 theme. One of the two new promos may offer insight, but it is also possible that they are just additional red herrings. However, since there is less than a month to go before the next installment begins, we will presumably see the real theme soon — if we haven’t already.
American Horror Story season 6 premieres on FX on September 14.
China just gave Hollywood a cautionary tale about AI filmmaking. Sanxingdui: Future Past, billed as the country's first fully AI-generated movie, hit theaters on October 23 and bombed at the box office.
According to Futurism, the film's reported $1.5 million production budget landed on more than 10,000 screens. Yet it pulled in only about $181,000, averaging roughly $20 per screen, making the budget difficult to recover.
Some of the best shots in Grok Imagine’s AI-made Odyssey don’t contain actors. Ancient landscapes stretch into the distance. Close-ups of grimy hands suggest people who have touched something rougher than a keyboard. For a few seconds, the illusion holds.
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YouTube videos could soon look better without eating quite so much data, right? Thankfully, the platform plans to introduce a new video format called AV2 on its web player in early 2027, promising more efficient streaming and potentially fewer playback hiccups on slower internet connections. The big headline is a roughly 30% improvement in compression efficiency over AV1, YouTube's existing video format. That doesn't guarantee every video will use 30% less data, but it could make streaming a little easier on both internet connections and data allowances.
What is AV2, and why should viewers care?