American Horror Story: Murder House

Season 1 of American Horror Story

title

Murder House

Episodes

12

Country of production

United States

First broadcast

Oct 5, 2011 - Dec 21, 2011 on FX

German-language
first broadcast

Nov 9, 2011 - Feb 8, 2012 on FOX

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American Horror Story: Murder House is the first season of American Horror - television series American Horror Story , based on an idea by Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk based. The first broadcast took place between October 5 and December 21, 2011 on the TV channel FX . The German-language first broadcast ran from November 9, 2011 to February 8, 2012 on FOX .

The focus of the season is the Harmon family, who after the miscarriage of mother Vivien and the affair of father Ben move to a restored house with their daughter Violet from Boston to Los Angeles , unsuspecting that it contains the ghosts of former homeowners and their victims are located.

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The first season of the series takes place in the present and tells the story of the Harmon family. Vivien Harmon, her husband Ben and their daughter Violet move into an old house in Los Angeles . The family decided to move from Boston to start a fresh start after Ben had an affair with a college student and the marriage nearly fell through. Little does the family suspect that their new house has a dark past. It was built by a wealthy man for his wife in the 1920s. When he becomes addicted to drugs, she arranges for her husband to have illegal abortions in the basement of the house for fear of financial ruin. A patient's friend kills the couple's child in revenge for such an abortion. Falling into the "Frankenstein Complex", the doctor mutilates his child's dead body in the hope of being able to bring it back to life. When he tells his wife that he actually succeeded and that she can look in the nursery, she finds her child there, who now resembles a creature. The homeowner then shot her husband and then herself. This is the beginning of a long line of deaths that have occurred in the house since then. Anyone who dies on the property becomes a ghost and is forever tied to the building - except on Halloween day .

At first, the Harmon family knows nothing about this background. They are particularly often visited by their neighbor Constance and her daughter Adelaide, who has Down syndrome . The psychiatrist Ben, who wants to set up a practice, initially looks after the young Tate, who suffers from violent fantasies. Violet, who is an outsider at her new school, quickly becomes friends with Tate, which Ben clearly displeases. As it turns out later, Tate is the son of Constance and also a ghost. Violet is so appalled by this realization that she tries to commit suicide in a panic. It also turns out that the previous owners of the house, a homosexual couple, were murdered by Tate, who was wearing a black latex suit in the act. Vivien sleeps with Tate under the illusion that her husband Ben is wearing that latex suit. A short time later she is pregnant with twins.

Ben is increasingly beset by his old affair. His student is pregnant and decides to keep the child and to let Ben's wife know. But then a strange man appears who repeatedly urges Ben to leave the house. The man, who is severely burned, claims that he lived in the house himself and that he inadvertently burned his entire family. In truth, his wife and their two daughters burned themselves after he tried to leave them for Constance. The stranger slays Ben's former lover when she shows up at Ben's house after Ben has left her on a planned date, and buries her in the garden, whereupon she too becomes a ghost. Tensions between Ben and Vivien increase when it is discovered that Ben has only fathered one of the two unborn twins. Violet discovers her own body in the basement of the house. She died trying suicide and is also a ghost without even realizing it. Tate had hidden her body in the basement to protect her from the shock. Ben discovers that the figure in the black latex suit is Tate, who not only raped his wife, but also killed the previous owner. Violet turns away from Tate for good.

When the twins are born in the house, Vivien dies, as does Ben's child. Ben is hanged by ghosts in the stairwell. So the Harmon family and the spirit of the dead baby are reunited. To protect new owners from the angry ghosts in the house, the Harmons drive them away. Meanwhile, Constance has taken the surviving baby, who is said to be the Antichrist as the child of a living and a dead . The last scene shows Constance smiling over the little boy who murdered his nanny.

Cast and dubbing

main actor

Connie Britton can be seen in the first season as the homeowner Vivien Harmon .

actor	role	Main role (episodes)	Voice actor
Connie Britton	Vivien Harmon	1.01–1.12	Melanie Pukass
Dylan McDermott	Dr. Benjamin "Ben" Harmon	1.01–1.12	Peter Flechtner
Evan Peters	Tate Langdon	1.01–1.12	Jan Rohrbach
Taissa Farmiga	Violet Harmon	1.01–1.12	Luisa Wietzorek
Denis O'Hare	Larry Harvey	1.01–1.10	Udo Schenk
Jessica Lange	Constance Langdon	1.01–1.12	Karin Buchholz

supporting cast

actor	role	Supporting role (episodes)	Voice actor
Frances Conroy	Moira O'Hara	1.01–1.12	Helga Sasse
Alexandra Breckenridge	Moira O'Hara (young)	1.01-1.03, 1.07, 1.09, 1.12	Maria Koschny
Jamie Brewer	Adelaide Langdon	1.01–1.05, 1.10, 1.12	Marie-Luise Schramm
Christine Estabrook	Marcy (broker)	1.01-1.04, 1.07-1.08, 1.12	Claudia Kleiber
Kai and Bodhi Schulz	Troy and Bryan	1.01, 1.04–1.05, 1.11–1.12	Alexander Landmann
Benjamin Woolf	Thaddeus Montgomery / Infantata	1.01, 1.04, 1.07, 1.11
Celia Finkelstein	Gladys	1.02–1.06, 1.11–1.12
Rosa Salazar	Maria	1.02, 1.05, 1.07, 1.11
Kate Mara	Hayden McClaine	1.02-1.05, 1.08-1.12	Luise Helm
Michael Graziadei	Travis Wanderly	1.02, 1.04, 1.09-1.12	Tobias Nath
Azura Skye	Fiona	1.02, 1.06, 1.08, 1.12
Lily raven	Nora Montgomery	1.03–1.08, 1.11–1.12	Cathlen Gawlich
Matt Ross	Charles Montgomery	1.03-1.11	Viktor Neumann
Eve Gordon	Dr. Hall	1.03, 1.06-1.09
Zachary Quinto	Chad Warwick	1.04–1.05, 1.08, 1.11	Timmo Niesner
Teddy Sears	Patrick	1.04–1.05, 1.08, 1.11	Oliver Field
Morris Chestnut	Officer Luke	1.04–1.09	Tobias Kluckert
Sarah Paulson	Billie Dean Howard	1.06, 1.09, 1.11	Ulrike Stürzbecher

Episodes

The first airing of the first season ( American Horror Story: Murder House ) was to be seen from October 5 to December 21, 2011 on the US cable channel FX . The German-language premiere broadcast of the German pay-TV transmitter FOX on 9 November 2011 to 8 February 2012 found.

No. ( total )	No. ( St. )	German title	Original title	First broadcast in the USA	German language first broadcast (D)	Director	script	Spectator (USA)
1	1	Das Haus Neuanfang (alternative title)	pilot	Oct 5, 2011	Nov 9, 2011	Ryan Murphy	Ryan Murphy & Brad Falchuk	3.18 million
2	2	Invaders Invasion (Alternative Title)	Home invasion	Oct 12, 2011	Nov 16, 2011	Alfonso Gomez-Rejon	Ryan Murphy & Brad Falchuk	2.46 million
3	3	The killer house	Murder House	Oct 19, 2011	Nov 23, 2011	Bradley Buecker	Jennifer Salt	2.59 million
4th	4th	Halloween, part 1	Halloween, Part 1	Oct 26, 2011	Nov 30, 2011	David Semel	James Wong	2.96 million
5	5	Halloween, part 2	Halloween, Part 2	Nov 2, 2011	Dec 7, 2011	David Semel	Tim Minear	2.75 million
6th	6th	Piggy-pig piggy, piggy (alternative title)	Piggy Piggy	Nov 9, 2011	Dec 14, 2011	Michael Uppendahl	Jessica Sharzer	2.83 million
7th	7th	House visit open day (alternative title)	Open house	Nov 16, 2011	Jan. 4, 2012	Tim Hunter	Brad Falchuk	3.06 million
8th	8th	The latex man Poltergeist (alternative title)	Rubber man	Nov 23, 2011	Jan. 11, 2012	Miguel Arteta	Ryan Murphy	2.81 million
9	9	The black dahlia	Spooky little girl	Nov 30, 2011	Jan. 18, 2012	John Scott	Jennifer Salt	2.85 million
10	10	Who plays with fire Everything comes to light (alternative title)	Smoldering Children	Dec 7, 2011	Jan 25, 2012	Michael Lehmann	James Wong	2.54 million
11	11	Birth Birth (alternative title)	Birth	Dec 14, 2011	Feb. 1, 2012	Alfonso Gomez-Rejon	Tim Minear	2.59 million
12	12	After childbirth afterbirth (alternative title)	Afterbirth	Dec 21, 2011	Feb 8, 2012	Bradley Buecker	Jessica Sharzer	3.22 million