After a handful of teaser promos touting FOX’s new freshman horror-comedy series Scream Queens, the network has finally unveiled the first official trailer for the anthology from Glee and American Horror Story creators Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk and Ian Brennan.
FOX has also released an official description of the show which is being called a mix between Mean Girls and Friday the 13th.
The girls of Kappa House are dying for new pledges. SCREAM QUEENS is a new killer comedy-horror series from Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk and Ian Brennan, the Emmy- and Golden Globe Award-winning executive producers of GLEE and “American Horror Story.” Wallace University is rocked by a string of murders. Kappa House, the most sought-after sorority for pledges, is ruled with an iron fist (in a pink glove) by its Queen Bitch, CHANEL OBERLIN (Emma Roberts, “American Horror Story: Freak Show,” “Scream 4”). But when anti-Kappa DEAN MUNSCH (Jamie Lee Curtis, “Halloween,” “A Fish Called Wanda,” “True Lies”) decrees that sorority pledging must be open to all students, and not just the school’s silver-spooned elite, all hell is about to break loose, as a devil-clad killer begins wreaking havoc, claiming one victim, one episode at a time. Part black comedy, part slasher flick, SCREAM QUEENS is a modern take on the classic whodunit, in which every character has a motive for murder…or could easily be the next blood-soaked casualty.
SCREAM QUEENS stars Emma Roberts, Jamie Lee Curtis, Emmy Award and Golden Globe Award nominee Lea Michele (GLEE), Academy Award nominee Abigail Breslin (“Little Miss Sunshine,” “Zombieland,” “August: Osage County”), Nasim Pedrad (“Saturday Night Live”), Oliver Hudson (“Nashville,” “Rules of Engagement”), Skyler Samuels (“American Horror Story: Coven”), Keke Palmer (“Akeela and the Bee,” “Masters of Sex”), newcomer Billie Lourd, Diego Bonita (“Rock of Ages”), Glen Powell (“The Expendables 3”), Lucien Laviscount (“Episodes”), Niecy Nash (“Getting On,” “The Soul Man”), pop superstar and actor Nick Jonas (“Kingdom”) and Grammy Award nominee and actress Ariana Grande.
Some takeaways from the trailer:
• Is that the same house from American Horror Story: Coven? It very might well be, since Murphy chose to film the series in New Orleans.
• Is the Devil costume killer? It looks a little too shiny for our taste — like something you might buy at a Halloween costume shop.
• Is Ariana Grande playing Ariana Grande? Couldn’t they have changed her look a little bit?
• Lea Michele is in her underoos!
• “What the fresh hell is this?”
• LOVING the gay guys screaming in that one shot. Ahhh, I guess that’s why they call it “Scream Queens”! I kid, I kid.
• YouTube viral twins Austin and Aaron Rhodes make their TV debut! Did you spot them in the promo?
• Is that Orange is the New Black‘s Big Boo being submerged near the end?
Scream Queens airs Tuesdays at 9pm this fall on FOX.