10 Reasons Murder House Is The Best Season Of American Horror Story
3. It Had A Great Villain
Bloody Face, Twisty the Clown The Butcher, Addiction Demon. American Horror Story has some of the greatest horror villains since Michael Myers returned to Haddonfield. However, heading back to Season 1, Murder House has possibly the greatest villain. Tate Langdon's "Rubber Man" appeared heavily in the show's promotional material, but the mystery of who is the man behind the mask was one no one saw coming.
Rubber Man was just one side of Langdon's villainy during Murder House, cleverly balanced with the human side of Tate Langdon and his Romeo & Juliet storyline. Langdon's school-shooting psychopath was a clever social commentary on American gun crime as it was, but the horror was just beginning. When we found out that Tate was also the man in the suit, it added a whole other level of sadism.
Raping Vivien Harmon, sodomising Chad and Patrick, and being tragically responsible for the death of Violet, even after all that we still felt for the lost soul. Murphy's greatest achievement was that he humanised the little boy inside of Tate. Just as we saw Norman Bates as more that the man behind the shower curtain, Murder House made you root for the worst person imaginable. The image of the skull-faced boy is still one of the show's most recognisable.