Every Gruesome Death From American Horror Story: Hotel
Who's excited for another round of horrifying deaths, courtesy of American Horror Story? Everyone? Awesome. In five episodes, Hotel has racked up innumerable deaths — though not everyone stays dead. A ton of minor characters have kicked the bucket, while several main cast members have died . . . sort of. Death is fluid on American Horror Story — just ask the Harmons from season one. Some people we know are dead (like Miss Evers's son), but we don't actually see their death scenes. Take a look at all the casualties so far, and stay tuned as we update with more deaths each week. Warning: these pictures are extremely graphic.
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This Cheating Woman
Hotel's first casualty is one of its most disturbing. Detective Lowe enters a crime scene, only to find this couple stuck nailed to the bed and literally glued to each other. It's our first experience witnessing the work of the Ten Commandments Killer. These people are cheating on their respective spouses with each other, and though they're both impaled (and the man's eyes and tongue have been cut out), only the woman is dead. Which commandment did they break? "You shall not commit adultery."
Gabriel
Gabriel has a terrible last trip. After being raped with a conical dildo, he gently passes away after telling Hypodermic Sally that he loves her. You may be saying, "Wait, doesn't he wake up later under Detective Lowe's bed?" He does, but go back and watch this part. He definitely takes a final breath and dies with his eyes wide open. Somehow, something in the Cortez brings him back to life.
This Unfortunate Couple
Donovan and the Countess pick up these two winners at a movie in the park. The film that's playing, Bram Stoker's Dracula, is spot on, considering how the rest of the night goes.
This Swedish Tourist
What a terrible vacation this girl and her friend have. Once she escapes her torture chamber, she encounters the Countess, who promptly slits her throat.
These Poor Dudes
The Ten Commandment Killer strikes again! This time, he murders two men who are later referred to as "The Rylance Twins." Detective Lowe's daughter encounters them, crucified with their organs pulled out over two beds. In the second episode, John hypothesizes that they had killed their parents, and thus had violated the commandment to honor thy mother and father.
Hypodermic Sally
Clearly Hypodermic Sally is still upright and walking, but back in 1994, Iris pushes her out of a window at the Cortez and the fall either kills her, or it should have. Evan Peters has confirmed that she's a ghost, but it's unclear whether that's when she dies, or if she's already a ghost when he falls and then just goes about her daily business.
Donovan
Donovan is the second victim of that day. He overdoses on the drugs that Sally gives him, and his mother walks in on the Countess lusting after his jawline. Given that they are the show's reigning, blood-sucking couple, we can assume that Lady Gaga brings him back from the dead and turns him into whatever she is.
This Other Swedish Tourist
The second episode brings loads of death. The second Swedish tourist dies after being drained of blood by the Countess's "children."
These Poor Girls
In a flashback, John tells Sally about the last day he drank. It was after viewing a murder scene in which a father inadvertently poisons his children with carbon monoxide. Here are the two smallest victims.
This Other Poor Girl
And here is their sister.
This Father Who Just Couldn't Deal
The father had shot himself in the head.
This Unfortunate Hooker
Enter Mr. March! When the traumatized Tristan refuses to pull the trigger on a lady of the night, Mr. March does it himself.
This Unlucky Construction Manager
After this guy questions Mr. March about the secret passageways in his plans for the Hotel Cortez, Mr. March takes him to his "office" and viciously stabs him in the neck.
This Girl in the Wall
Mr. March basically just strings this girl up in a wall to die. He tries to stuff a hankie in her mouth, but his mysterious wife (the Countess, maybe?) takes it out and tells him that she likes to watch.
This Butchered Woman
This is perhaps the most brutal death of them all. Mr. March rapes this woman while methodically slashing her across the stomach and chest.
This Bearded Man
Death by hammer and six-story garbage/body chute drop.
This Religious Man Without a Beard
This man dies the same way, but he has a more interesting scene. He's praying when Mr. March comes for him, and they have a brief talk about religion. The man claims that as long as God is alive, people like Mr. March will never be at peace. Mr. March responds by saying he'll just have to kill God then.
These Immigrant Workers
Cut to these six illegal workers slaughtered with their hands cut off. Years in the future, John suspects that it's the early work of the Ten Commandments Killer and that the men were killed for working on a Sunday, God's day.
Miss Evers
When they're finally cornered, Mr. March shoots a giddy Miss Evers in the head.
Mr. March
He then slashes his own throat.
This Poor Guy Who Just Wanted to Get Laid
The final death of the second episode is this bearded man who just thought he was coming to get lucky with Tristan. Then Tristan stabs him in the neck and drinks his blood.
This Old-Timey Gentleman Who Gets Impaled
The third episode, "Mommy," opens with Mr. March impaling a man in one of his many hidden rooms.
Claudia
Model Claudia (guest star Naomi Campbell) is attacked by Gabriel while she's just trying to take a nap. He subsequently murders her.
Gabriel, Again
The attack is too much to handle. Gabriel dies again after telling John that he killed the wrong person, and that it's Sally's fault.
These Gossip Site Reporters
The Ten Commandments Killer is still at it! He murders an entire office full of gossip reporters for violating the "thou shalt not bear false witness" commandment.
The Junkies Who Donovan Drains Under the Bridge
Donovan gets into a big fight with his mom and drowns his sorrows in junkie blood. Sad.
Mo
The Countess sabotages Ramona's romance with Mo by shooting him in the face after Ramona turns him.
Mo's Entire Crew
Oh, she also murders his whole crew.
Iris
Iris copes with her fight with Donovan by enlisting Sally to help her commit suicide. Donovan finds her close to death, and opens up his own vein to save her. Get ready for vampire Iris!
This Tourist Who's Just Trying to Take a Nap
On the first of the two Halloween episodes, "Devil's Night," serial killer Richard Ramirez bludgeons this man to death with a lamp, before turning to his wife. She manages to escape . . . and run into Mr. March's firm grasp.
The Lowes' Doomed Dog
Alex brings her son home, but while she's getting juice for him, he feeds on the family dog.
This Yuppie Who Just Wanted Some China White
Sally grabs this sacrificial lamb on the street and gives him to the killers, who stab him to death.
The Vampire Kid's Parents
Remember the kid whose parents refused to vaccinate him? Alex turns him into a vampire and he feeds on them.
This Teacher Who Doesn't See It Coming — Then the Entire School
The kid's teacher just wants to help, and she ends up dead in a pool of her own blood. Thanks, Vampire Kid.
These Sucky '80s Businessmen
The Countess slashes these guys' throats after they harass Liz Taylor, their (former) coworker. That's what you get for being intolerant!
These Terrible Hipsters Who Eat Cat Food
After serving them cat food as paté, Iris murders these two awful hipsters (Glee's Darren Criss and Jessica Lu) with a corkscrew.
Charles Montgomery's Nurse
In one of the many flashbacks, we see the Countess going to Charles Montgomery for a procedure in 1925. His nurse is an unfortunate casualty of her new baby, though we only see her bloodied body through the Countess's blurred vision.
Cara the Suicidal Teacher
Cara is a ghost who haunts the halls of the Hotel Cortez. Years ago, she commits suicide in the bathtub, and it took weeks before someone discovered her rotting corpse.
"Some Stupid Guy With a Big Hard-On"
The Swedish tourists, now haunting the Hotel Cortez as well, kill this gentleman with an ice pick.
The Televangelist Whose Guts End Up All Over the Altar
The Ten Commandments Killer murders this televangelist, pouring his guts out on an altar and dispersing coins on them.
Tristan
After discovering that Liz Taylor and Tristan are in love, the Countess daintily slits Tristan's throat.
The Construction Workers Who Discover Valentino and His Wife
These dudes just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. They open up the tomb in which Mr. March has been hiding Valentino and his wife for nearly a century. They're vampires, so they're not dead — just very, very thirsty.
Marcy the Realtor
She was able to cross seasons, yet Marcy couldn't make it to the end of Hotel. Sad.
Ren
After escaping her high-security cell with John Lowe, the mysterious Ren steps in front of an oncoming truck.
This Gross Human Who Tried to Sell an Award Statuette
John, aka the Ten Commandments Killer(!), bludgeons him with it.
John's Partner, Andy
John kills his partner while trying to convince him that he is, indeed, the Ten Commandments Killer.
These Porn Stars, Plus Their Director
Iris murders these disrespectful porn stars who are shooting a movie in the hotel.
Ramona's Father
Ramona puts her father out of his misery after she realizes that when you're as old as he is, being a vampire is basically useless.
Will Drake
Ramona also kills Will, after he marries the Countess.
This Sweet Old Couple
This old couple visits the hotel for the sweetest double suicide you've ever seen.
Rudolph Valentino
Rudolph brings a sword to a gun fight with Donovan. He loses.
Natacha Rambova
Rudolph's wife, Natacha, is killed by the Countess in the same exact way.
This Man, Engulfed in Flames
Another one of Mr. March's victims.
Kimmy, the Vampire Girl
Kids these days don't even know how to get good blood to quench their thirst! This girl dies either by a side effect of being infected, or by blood withdrawal.