American Horror Story, an anthology series created by Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk.
American Horror Story is an anthology series, each season has had a completely different story, theme, and setting, though it has also created its own connected universe thanks to characters that have appeared in different seasons, and Murder House was followed by what many considered the show’s strongest season: Asylum. American Horror Story season 2 took viewers back to 1964 to visit the fictional mental institution Briarcliff Manor, intercutting with events from that year and the present day. Asylum’s themes were sanity and abuse (physical, mental, and emotional), and saw the main characters dealing with different threats, such as demonic possession, abuse of power, aliens, and a serial killer known as Bloody Face.
Bloody Face was a serial killer whose reign of terror began in the early 1960s, and at the beginning of AHS: Asylum, viewers are led to believe that Kit Walker (Evan Peters) is the Bloody Face killer but he chose to forget, and so he’s taken to Briarcliff. This leads journalist Lana Winters (Sarah Paulson) to infiltrate Briarcliff to get all the information on Bloody Face under the excuse of doing a story on the asylum’s bakery. It’s through Lana that the audience learns who the real Bloody Face was: Dr. Oliver Thredson (Zachary Quinto). However, a fan theory suggests that Lana was the real Bloody Face, as she’s an unreliable narrator.
Lana Winters wasn’t the most honest person out there, starting with how she lied to enter Briarcliff, which in turn led to her being locked up there for real. Lana wouldn’t hesitate to lie to get the story she wanted, so with that in mind, a the real Bloody Face killer, and she made up the story about Oliver Thredson. In addition to being a liar and even showing some guilt during a book g, and as she’s proven to be an unreliable narrator, her s of her encounter with Bloody Face shouldn’t be fully believed, so the author of the theory uses the scene where she calls the cops and kills Thredson as proof. Lana was putting herself in danger, but the author explains she called the cops to frame Thredson, and the aliens, demonic possessions, and more are details she made up to hide the truth.
Although the theory has many flaws, the idea of American Horror Story fan to decide if Lana Winters could have been the real Bloody Face or if it really was Oliver Thredson.