American Horror Stories "Lake" Has A Lot in Common with This Disney Movie
American Horror Stories, the spin-off of Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk's American Horror Story series, alters the long-standing format of the horror franchise. Instead of an entire season to explore its narrative, the spin-off series has only one episode, roughly 40 minutes. The second season of the horror spin-off series is a considerable improvement from its first. «Lake,» the eighth episode of its second season, explores the mystical dangers that water can pose. In doing so, it has quite a bit in common with one Disney movie.
Despite the cheerful connotations of most Disney movies, many of them derive from fairly grim tales. Holes may not be adapted from as grisly as a tale as some of the studio's animated films, but the Louis Sachar novel does deal with some fairly dark themes, including child labor, racism, and abuse. While Holes and American Horror Stories may not utilize the themes in the same way, the similarities between the two projects are impossible to ignore.
Ironheart Casts GLOW's Shakira Berrera As Series Regular
The similarities between Holes and American Horror Stories' «Lake» are striking. On a simplistic level, both tell the story of a child whose been swept up in a family's uncanny history. In Holes, Stanley Yelnats IV (Shia LaBeouf) and Zero (Khleo Thomas) are both plagued by the unfortunate histories of their families. Their peculiar and unfair occurrences are a large factor in what led them to attend Camp Green Lake to dig holes. For both Stanley and Zero, their circumstances do eventually have a meaningful, optimistic conclusion. In the end, both characters are able to free their families of the suffering they have endured for countless years.
In «Lake,» a similar strategy is employed. Finn (Olivia
Read more on gamerant.com
