The Countess takes Will Drake’s son to a secret room containing white hair children and introduces him to Holden (Detective Lowe's abducted son.) Will Drake and his son arrive to live in the Penthouse. To keep his family safe, Detective Lowe moves out of his home and into Room 64. His daughter then finds two dead men in the house. He rushes to the scene with his daughter in the car. Detective Lowe receives a text from his wife saying that she is in trouble. In a 1994 flashback, it is revealed that the hotel manager Iris shoved Hypodermic Sally out a window to her death after Sally drugged Donovan to death. The resident couple, Countess Elizabeth and Donovan, have a foursome with a couple they met, murdering them after and savoring their blood. Heroin addict Gabriel checks in and is violently raped by the Addiction Demon. He sees a vision there of his missing son Holden, who was abducted five years earlier. Meanwhile, Detective John Lowe is investigating the torture-murder of a couple and goes to the Cortez for clues. They find a disfigured creature who was inside their room's mattress.
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This season features multiple murderous threats, including the Ten Commandments Killer, a serial offender who selects his victims following biblical teachings a vampiric, self-styled Countess, played by Lady Gaga and the serial killer mastermind responsible for the hotel's construction who is now a ghost residing there.Īccording to Falchuk and Murphy, thematically, Hotel is much darker than the previous seasons. The hotel is loosely based on the Cecil Hotel in Los Angeles, home to various deaths and tragedies. The Cortez is host to many disturbing scenarios and paranormal events and is overseen by its enigmatic matron, The Countess (Gaga), a bloodsucking fashionista.
The plot centers around the mysterious Hotel Cortez in Los Angeles, California that catches the eye of an intrepid homicide detective (Bentley).
Hotel marks the first season to not feature series mainstays Jessica Lange and Frances Conroy. Breaking from the anthological format, like Freak Show, the season is interconnected to the first and third seasons. Returning cast from previous seasons of the series include: Kathy Bates, Sarah Paulson, Evan Peters, Wes Bentley, Matt Bomer, Chloë Sevigny, Denis O'Hare, Angela Bassett, Mare Winningham, Christine Estabrook, Finn Wittrock, Lily Rabe, Anthony Ruivivar, John Carroll Lynch, Matt Ross, and Gabourey Sidibe, along with new cast members Lady Gaga and Cheyenne Jackson. The series was renewed in October 2014, with the subtitle Hotel being announced in February 2015. It premiered on October 7, 2015, and concluded January 13, 2016. American Horror Story: Hotel is the fifth season of the FX horror anthology television series American Horror Story, created by Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk.