15 Freakiest Moments in American Horror Story: Coven
We may be deep into a new season of American Horror Story, AKA the seventh installment, Cult, but when October begins and the Halloween spirit strikes us, there’s one season we always go back to: Coven. AHS’s third chapter, featuring the witches (and warlocks) of Miss Robichaux’s Academy for Exceptional Young Ladies, gave us all the Halloween vibes with its creepy (and sometimes campy) blend of witchcraft, voodoo magic, historical villains, and humor.
In case you haven’t seen Coven yet, it’s the story of a school for young witches and their quest to find the next “Supreme” witch to take the coven into a new era. However, the Supreme, Fiona Goode, isn’t so ready to give up her throne, despite the fact that she’s teaching a crop of very talented and gifted young witches. Throw in figures like the voodoo queen Marie Laveau (a scene-stealing Angela Bassett) and the evil Madame Delphine LaLaurie, a New Orleans resident who tortured her slaves in the 1800s, as well as the murderous Axeman, a minotaur, and a Frankenstein frat boy, and you’ve got one of the best seasons in AHS history.
In honor of Halloween, we rounded up some of the most horrifying, most OMG!-worthy moments from Coven. But before you dive in, why don’t you change into something black?
1/16The teasers for AHS are always horrifying in their own way, but Coven’s were especially eerie.
2/16Queenie’s special gift? She’s a human voodoo doll. Every time she inflicted pain on herself, like stabbing her own hand with a knife, we squirmed and squealed.
3/16When Fiona Goode killed Madison Montgomery (Emma Roberts) after thinking she was the next Supreme, everyone screamed at the TV.
4/16Of course, Madison came back to life and haunted Fiona — serves her right.
5/16One of the creepiest moments in Miss Robichaux’s was when the school’s servant, the mute Spalding, had a tea party with Madison’s corpse, which he’d dressed like a doll.
6/16There were lots of heads in a box in Coven, and the minotaur’s severed head, which Fiona sent to Marie Laveau, still gives us nightmares.
7/16Fiona and Marie Laveau barter with Papa Legba for eternal life, and they drown coven member Nan in the tub as an “innocent soul.” It doesn’t work … but Nan is still dead.
8/16Fiona eventually meets her fate via Papa Legba, who takes away her immortality and sends her to hell … AKA living in a room made of knotty pine with her former lover, the Axeman.
9/16Fiona’s daughter Cordelia Foxx undergoes a brutal acid attack, leaving her blinded. Oh, and did we mention she was married to an undercover witch hunter? Luckily, Cordelia unleashes her inner power and takes over as the next Supreme.
10/16One of the most “OMG!” moments takes place in the first episode, when starlet Madison flips a bus full of frat boys and kills them all.
11/16Madison and Zoe sneak into the morgue and create a Frankenstein man out of the mangled body parts of the dead frat boys, because why wouldn’t you use your powers to resurrect your crush?
12/16Madame LaLaurie was a heartless killer who was so desperate to stay young that she painted her face with blood from her slaves. Though she eventually got what was coming to her, no punishment was too great for such a bad, bad woman.
13/16Did you forget about Delphine LaLaurie’s zombie daughters, who appear at Miss Robichaux’s as a “gift” from Marie Laveau? We didn’t.
14/16The white witch Misty Day doesn’t pass the Seven Wonders because she can’t go through with a frog dissection, and she’s trapped in an eternal loop of dead frogs forever.
15/16It may not have been horrifying per se, but Myrtle Snow screaming “Balenciaga!” before being burned at the stake was probably the most iconic moment on Coven, so it deserves a spot.
