‘American Horror Story: Hotel’ Annihilated For Graphic 3-Minute Rape Scene

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Ohhhhh boy, this is bad. 

Despite American Horror Story co-creator Ryan Murphy warning the world about the extremely graphic rape scene that went down 25 minutes into the premiere of American Horror Story: Hotel – calling it the “most disturbing scene we’ve ever done” – *nobody* was prepared for that shit.
If you missed last night’s ep (which you probably did because it doesn’t air in Australia until October 12, on ELEVEN), we’re talking about the 3-minute anal rape of Max Greenfield‘s junkie character Gabriel by a demon wearing a spiky metal dildo.
It’s full-on. It’s gross. It’s fucking horrifying.
Even worse is Sarah Paulson‘s character, Sally (a dead addict) whispering “the more you scream, the more he likes it” to Gabriel as he’s being assaulted.
Murphy reckons the scene was necessary, because the creature doing the penetrating aka The Addiction Demon is Hotel’s answer to S1’s Rubber Man, S2’s Bloody Face, and S3’s Twisty The Clown, but people are up in-arms about it.
Gaming/news and culture site Polygon roasted the scene:
“There was no apparent reason why Greenfield’s character had to be raped, nor was there enough time between introducing him on the show and showcasing the crude act to even hint that there was an underlying context for it. Instead, the scene (which is broken down into two subsequent parts), is dragged out and shot from a variety of angles, almost as if Ryan was trying to take as much as he could out of the act to complete the scene. For lack of a better word, it’s sickening.”
Outraged Vanity Fair reviewer Richard Lawson called it “garbage”:
“After that scene, I took to Twitter, as one does, to complain that the scene was basically treated as a joke, because isn’t gay rape so funny. Immediately someone responded that, um, the scene wasn’t meant to be funny, to which I say pfffffft again. If the scene, and the whole episode, wasn’t meant to be at least amusing, then why cast Greenfield, a comedic actor, to play a Brant brother–type only to quickly punish him with a horrific—and, again, incredibly graphic, given that it aired on basic cable!—rape?”
Hollywood Reporter only had one question to ask Murphy:

And Refinery29 came to the party with the glaringly obvious:
“If that rape scene had happened to a female character — or even a straight male one — the internet would be losing its collective mind right now.”


Viewers were, and still are, very unhappy the scene was ever allowed to air, with some even calling on the rest of the season – which stars Lady Gaga as the bloodsucking owner of the Hotel Cortez – to be canned.


The only person who doesn’t seem grossly offended by the ep is Gaga herself, who live-tweeted her excitement about her acting debut.

If you haven’t already watched it, maybe don’t. Or skip to ep 2.

If you or someone you know is experiencing physical or sexual abuse, calls can be made 24 hours a day on 1800 RESPECT (1800 737 732) to the National Sexual Assault, Family & Domestic Violence Counselling Line, or visit www.whiteribbon.org.au.

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