The Best American Horror Story Intro Music, According To Fans

Most recently, u/Loud-Act-6158 asked, "Favorite intro/season theme music? I myself can't decide! Another thing to look forward to with Double Feature!" Although the survey intentionally left Season 6 (the somewhat contentious "Roanoke") off the list, it did include Seasons 8 and 9, "AHS: Apocalypse" and "AHS: 1984," respectively. Still, it seems that while the infusion of simultaneously ominous and borderline comedic synthetic '80s pop in the latter's opening did give its following quite a boost — "1984 for the theme music," writes u/North-Discipline2851, "hands down" — there are just some things that viewers find more psychologically disturbing than others.

Things, for instance, like the black-and-white treatment given to the dark woods, tortured poppets, and medieval demon imagery in "AHS: Coven." There's also the murderous clowns, anatomically explicit automatons, and shiver-inducing juxtaposition of innocent childhood delights and melodies with the seedy, disconcerting machinery of chaos and grime that defines the "AHS: Freak Show" intro. It turns out that quite a few of us (and at least 107/339 voters) still love to be afraid of the same things that scared us as children: witches, clowns, and creaking sounds.  Perhaps unsurprisingly, both Season 1, "AHS: Murder House," and Season 2, "AHS: Asylum," were right up there with "Coven" and "Freak Show," but neither were able to unseat the current "Supreme" (wink, wink, nudge, nudge?), and only time will tell if the opening to "AHS: Double Feature" has what it takes to make viewers' skin crawl well before the first commercial break.