American Horror Story: 15 most horrifying AHS episodes
By Sandy C.
5. Season 3, American Horror Story: Coven, episode 3, “The Replacements”
Why it’s so frightening: More than anything, I would say this episode of American Horror Story: Coven is sick. It’s also pretty shocking and disturbing, and it accomplish all of this without the help of supernatural elements. Well, for the most part.
Madison (Emma Roberts) and Zoe (Taissa Farmiga) have brought Kyle (Evan Peters) back from the dead. He’s not really himself, though. Kyle died on a bus Madison flipped over, so his body is not… in one piece. To achieve bringing him back, Madison has the great *sarcasm* idea to collect different body parts (only the best) and put them together to make an all-new Kyle, with only his head being actually his, and whatever else they guessed right.
American Horror Story: Coven takes the saying “mom knows best” to a whole other level. Because, who knows you better than your mother, right? So long as they don’t know you as well as Kyle’s mother knows Kyle.
Initially, Kyle’s mother, Alicia Spencer (Mare Winningham) acted like a grieving mother after she learned her son had passed away. Zoe bought her act and delivered stitched-up-Kyle to Alicia’s front door. It’s then where we learn Alicia has been sexually assaulting her son his whole life. It’s really disturbing and depressing to see. Kyle ends up killing her.