American Horror Story - Season 2 (Asylum)

Explore sanity and real-life horrors in the macabre Briarcliff insane asylum.

The second instalment of the award winning psychosexual horror series. Set in 1964, American Horror Story - Asylum takes viewers into a Church-run haven for the criminally insane, ruled with an iron fist by Sister Jude (Jessica Lange), a nun with a troubled past. This grisly tale begins in present day when Leo and Teresa, the unsuspecting newlyweds, choose to spend their honeymoon within the safe haven of a now abandoned asylum. Or is it…once inside, the pair is thrust into a gruesome fight for their lives as the story flashes back to 1964.

Originally a tuberculosis ward, Briarcliff Manor, western Massachusetts, was brought by the Catholic Church and transformed into a chilling insane asylum. Monsignor Timothy O’Hara (Joseph Fiennes) and the formidable Sister Jude (Jessica Lange) are in charge with the help of Sister Eunice (Lily Rabe).

Inside this locked down facility, danger lurks around every corner. From Nazis and serial killers to mutants and aliens, no one is safe inside these walls.