TV American Horror Story season 9 is a slasher movie homage called 1984 By Tim Stack Tim Stack Tim Stack is a former senior writer at Entertainment Weekly. He left EW in 2019. EW's editorial guidelines Published on April 10, 2019 10:15AM EDT Photo: FX It’s probably time to revisit those Scream rules for surviving a slasher movie. Ryan Murphy revealed this morning that season 9 of American Horror Story will be called 1984 and appears to be an homage to the slasher movies of that era, like Friday the 13th. Murphy posted the first teaser for AHS: 1984 to his Instagram, which features an anonymous girl being stalked in the woods by a gigantic masked killer with an even bigger knife. So far, only series alum Emma Roberts and Olympian Gus Kenworthy have been announced as cast members (the pair will play a couple presumably under attack from this killer with gross hair). Evan Peters recently revealed that he won’t be back for this particular season. AHS: 1984 will premiere this fall on FX. Related content: Why Julia Roberts won’t ever join niece Emma on American Horror Story Coven witches will return to American Horror Story after Apocalypse, says Ryan Murphy American Horror Story: Olympian Gus Kenworthy to play Emma Roberts’ boyfriend in season 9