The Lost Boys Reference You May Have Missed on This Week's American Horror Story

Updated on 10/16/2015 at 8:30 AM

Between the horrifically graphic deaths and the great music on this week's episode of American Horror Story: Hotel, you may have missed that one scene is directly lifted from a classic '80s horror flick. Remember the 1987 vampire thriller The Lost Boys? It's a great movie, and it happens to contain one particularly memorable scene. We'll give you a hint: maggots are involved. In case you never saw the movie or you didn't put the pieces together, here's the inspiration for one of American Horror Story's most disturbing scenes so far.

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So He Starts to Eat It

And he's like, "Man, I'm hungrier than I thought."

Then He Realizes Something Is Wrong

HIS SANDWICH IS FILLED WITH MAGGOTS

He Is Understandably Upset

This Is Certainly Not the Plate He Picked Up With the Nice Salad on It

Here's the Reference!

When Michael (Jason Patric) first starts hanging out with the local vampires (headed by Kiefer Sutherland), they offer him some Chinese food. He starts eating some rice, only to discover that his carton is actually full of maggots. You can't blame the American Horror Story writers for putting their own spin on the scene; it's immensely disturbing.