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Sep 1, 2022 · Necro: Directed by Logan Kibens. With Madison Iseman, Cameron Cowperthwaite, Spencer Neville, Jeff Doucette. A young mortician discovers the living are more terrifying than the dead.
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- Drama, Horror, Mystery
- Logan Kibens
- 2022-09-01
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"Necro" is the seventh episode of the second installment of American Horror Stories. It premiered September 1, 2022 on Hulu.
A young mortician discovers the living are more terrifying than the dead.
Blood spatters a family home in Machiasport, Maine in 1998. A trail of it leads to a woman laying dead in the kitchen, a hammer not far away, watched over by a young girl, Sam. In 2022, the girl is now and adult and embalms and prepares corpses as a mortician in Whittier, California. The funeral director, Henderson, pulls her aside on her way out of the visitation service and commends her on a job well done. Her sincere care for the deceased has earned her a raise. She returns home to her district attorney boyfriend, Jesse, and they agree to celebrate that evening. She wants to initiate sex before he leaves for court, but he gently turns her down and suggests that the formaldehyde scent still clings to her despite her efforts to wash it off.
She discusses his rejection with her friends over wine. Sam thinks that more may be going on in their relationship, and that he just doesn't understand her. She suggests that he resents her working at the funeral home. Her friends suggest it is more about compromise, but Sam hesitates when asked if she would choose Jesse over her job. Sam relates that her communion with the dead and being able to help families say goodbye is rewarding and important.
Sam is preparing a man for his service when Charlie, the new body removal technician, bursts in with a new body. Sam notices that he whispers to the woman he's brought in a body bag before he leaves. Later, Charlie admits that he thanked the decedent for allowing him to escort her, which he considers a sacred honor. That evening, after a special effort at cleaning herself up for Jesse, they have sex; she has flashes of Charlie while with Jesse.
Another day, Sam and Charlie discuss how they feel about the afterlife and how they would prefer their body be disposed of after death. They bond over the history of funeral traditions, trading stories of the rites of different cultures. Charlie notes that Sam's adventurous nature should not be suppressed because of Jesse's more conservative tastes. Later, he discloses to her about his family, who all died in a collision with a drunk driver. She feels moved to tell him about her own encounter with family death, which she has not shared with anyone, but is interrupted by a call from Jesse before she can. She resolves to tell Charlie later, and rushes home to meet Jesse's parents.
The house is dark when she walks in, with the sound of broken glass and a candle drawing her into the kitchen. A crunch underfoot triggers a memory of the home invasion that ended in her mother's death. Collapsed and sobbing, Jesse finds her and comforts her, with a surprise party of guests behind him. She soon realizes that the crunch underfoot was a wedding proposal spelled out in cereal and rose petals. Jesse says he thought her favorite cereal would make for a romantic gesture, but she explains that she kept the cereal as a remembrance of her mother. The cereal and rose petals (resembling blood) spattered on the floor triggered her. She rejects his proposal, telling him he should find a normal girl, and rushes out of the house.
Another day, Sam pulls back the sheet on her newest corpse to care for. The paperwork describes "John" as an overdosed 26 year old, but she is dismayed to see Charlie's face. She cries as she tells the corpse that he was the only one that understood her and her darkness, and he made her feel less alone. She kisses and cuddles up to the corpse, and finds herself astride it. She feels its hand move and grab her leg before running off, horrified at her actions. Steeling herself, she returns to the slab and sees the body is gone. She runs out, vomiting, and encounters a living Charlie. He rationalizes that his lack of breathing was induced by a pill, and the autopsy incision was a prosthetic, but that things went too far. His idea of healing her was seen as a sick prank. She claims he is deranged, but he counters that she did have sex with him when she thought he was a corpse. She says that they are not alike, and leaves.
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Sep 2, 2022 · The disturbing nature of American Horror Stories ’ season 2, episode 7, “Necro,” ending allows both characters to feel alive through death, and confirms that Sam was more attracted to Charlie when she thought he was dead in the morgue. When Charlie said he would die for her a million times, he meant that he would repeat what he did to her ...
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"American Horror Stories" Necro (TV Episode 2022) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
Sep 1, 2022 · Sam, a funeral home worker who loves the dead, has sex with a fake corpse named Charlie, who turns out to be a con artist. She kills him and buries him alive in a twisted love story.
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Sep 1, 2022 · Neville appeared in 1984 a s Joseph Cavanaugh, the former fiancé of Brooke (Emma Roberts). On his wedding day, Joseph became convinced that Brooke was cheating on him with his best man and shot ...
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Sep 1, 2022 · “Necro” is a surprisingly patient episode of American Horror Stories and there’s not much danger within the first-half beyond Sam’s errant trauma flashbacks. This creates more of a mystery ...
