13 WTF Moments From American Horror Story: Asylum

Bloody Face is a whole pile of nope.

By Sara Weir /

The creators of American Horror Story continue to shock and terrify viewers with sick and dark story lines - what's more, they're only getting darker with each passing season. Asylum was the second outing in the American Horror Story series and was largely based around Briarcliff Manor, a mental institution that uses shocking and medieval techniques that the patients must endure in order to be cured. The patients are living in terrible conditions where they are confined to the shadows and covered in their own faeces. Lana Winters (Sarah Paulson) enters the institution with a camera crew to write an exposé and, of course, things go downhill from the moment she steps through the door. The characters who need help are damned by those who are in a position to save them. The Asylum is not a place of safety and the majority of patients were perfectly sane before their incarceration. AHS shows that even those who claim to be holy by following God's Biblical instructions can misinterpret the text... American Horror Story: Asylum contains some extremely brutal scenes which display the horrific treatment of one human being onto another. Here are the most WTF moments from season 2.

13. The Dancing

After Sister Jude Martin (Jessica Lange) gets a dose of her own medicine, she becomes a lot more relaxed, but that's probably a result of the shock treatment therapy that melts her brain. Sister Jude receives her own treatments first hand and it's only when she discovers the pain of these treatments first hand that she realises how cruel and malicious she has been for all of those years. It is this epiphany that shocks viewers the most, as she morphs into a deranged and lifeless patient, so when the dancing starts, it's particularly creepy. This particular episode channels a lot of Glee dance moves and cheeriness as a mass break out dance occurs amongst the patients. Considering the location in which it is set and the horrific events that led up to this moment, it does actually make the dancing a lot more unsettling than it appears to be. The dancing represents the freedom that the patients no longer have and because of the treatments which are dehumanising them, this dance routine is essentially a cry for help from their former selves. It's more eerie than cheery.