American Horror Story’s “Death Valley” from “Double Feature”

The current Double Feature season of American Horror Story is exactly that, with the first Red Tide segments being about ghoulish vampires, and the second Death Valley feature centering on aliens. I’m only going to comment on Death Valley to keep things more contained, and frankly because I’m a bit tired of vampire themes, although admittedly Red Tide is innovative.

Now aliens I can really get my teeth into (with apologies to the vampires). What makes Death Valley a real hoot is the number of historical personalities portrayed, ranging from Eisenhower and Nixon (above) to JFK, Marilyn Monroe, and even an all-too brief appearance by Amelia Earhart, who without having aged in 20 years is delivered to the Eisenhower administration and pregnant with an alien child…yes, you heard that right! Well, a little later on Amelia has her alien baby and it’s a bad one, because it kills Amelia and the docs and nurses in the room until Ike and a couple of soldiers shoot it dead. This is wild stuff, and wildly entertaining!

Now you haven’t lived until you’ve seen Mamie Eisenhower possessed by an alien consciousness and levitating, with her eyes a milky white. The aliens communicate through possession of a human intermediary at times, and can cause the heads of opposing humans to explode by a wave of their hands, which is messy but compelling viewing. Wouldn’t you love to be able to do that?! Anyways, by possessing Mamie they gain emotional leverage over Ike so he agrees to allow the quiet abduction of several thousand people a year in exchange for alien technology. One of the goodies so obtained are cell phones, taken for granted now but unbelievable stuff during the Eisenhower years. Ike suffers angst over this, but hey, the aliens would simply have gone to the Russians had we not allowed them to abduct people, impregnate them, and breed hybrids so their race can survive on Earth.

Some of the alien genetic engineering projects fall short of the desired outcome, however, with disconcerting results like the humanoid above with one alien and one human eye…and the aliens can impregnate anyone and use them as a vessel, including males!
So catch Death Valley from Double Feature on the current season of American Horror Story. It unites so much of the mythic speculation on alien contacts and designs, with historical personages thrown in as you’ve never seen them before, very reminiscent of The X-Files and just as much fun… 🦊

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October 21, 2021 at 5:44 pm
I had more fun watching the CREEPSHOW HOLIDAY EDITION featuring a support group called Shapeshifters Anonymous. Led by a were-cheetah named Irina (brilliant reference to Val Lewton’s THE CAT PEOPLE!), the remaining members consist of a neophyte werewolf, a narcissistic were-boar, an ex-marine were-tortoise, a mysterious mute, and an African-American were-hippo wanna-be.*
All of them being stalked by the anti-therianthropic Santa Claus.**
*Basically, a glorified furry with a full moon fixation!
**Possibly, a vague reference to the anthropological belief that Santa’s Xmas Eve ride around the world is a quasi-Christianization of the Norse legend of the Wild Hunt.
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October 22, 2021 at 12:01 am
I saw that episode, and loved it! The killer Santa also reminded me of the slaying robo-Santa on “Futurama.” And so many slaughtered “helpers!”
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October 22, 2021 at 3:58 am
Most likely, dishonorably discharged from the Salvation Army.
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October 23, 2021 at 4:52 pm
The Salvation Army…fighting slum-dom, rum -dom, and bum- dom! 😁
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October 23, 2021 at 11:28 pm
Battles I seriously hope they win, someday.
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