American Horror Story: 1984's big villain Mr. Jingles is a horror fan's wildest dream come true
This article contains spoilers for season 9, episode 1.
If you thought Mr. Jingles -- the prime villain on 'American Horror Story: 1984'- - was twisted and terrifying in the trailers for season 9, you're in for a treat.
From stabbing threesome-indulging campgoers in a room full of people before chopping off their ears, to tying those ears together as a necklace souvenir, to showing him haunt a seemingly innocent Brooke Thompson (Emma Roberts) by breaking into her house with a promise to kill her next time -- Mr. Jingles might just become the poster child for the slasher genre.
Mr. Jingles leaves his yet-undead victim with the alarm that 'Satan' will show him the way. And as absurd as his Satanic faith might seem, the quotient of horrors he is capable of contradicts his not-so-terrifying moniker that comes from the jingling of the keys he carries. He pulls the classic slasher villain moves like threatening his past victims in a terrifyingly heavy, raspy voice over the phone, and cut off only one eye or one ear of his victims to keep them as souvenirs. He even breaks out of a psychiatric facility he was detained at for the murders he committed 14 years before the plot's actual titular setting, but it's what he had been up to inside his cell that's more terrifying.
Turns out, Mr. Jingles pretended to hang himself inside his cell, and when security came in to check up on him, he easily strangles the guard to the point where blood streams out of the man's eyes. Inside his cell, newspaper clippings of the murders from 14 years ago can be found, establishing his upcoming mission to finish what he started. His murders are mostly bloody, slow, and torturous. For example, crushing a gas station owner while the man was working under his car by removing the jacks before crushing his face with his foot. And later killing an injured hiker at Camp Redwood who seemed to be a former victim of his; Jingles stabbed the hiker to death and hanged his body from the door, before chasing the heroine Brooke into the woods and later calling her up to the sound of his keys ominously jingling as he stalks her from a distance.
Mr. Jingles is all kinds of twisted, creepy, and disturbing, but here's hoping that his sinister actions wouldn't be limited to the season premiere only. We need more Jingle-hell on the show and we hope to see them soon!
'American Horror Story: 1984' airs on Wednesday at 9pm, only on FX.