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  1. The second season of the American horror anthology television series American Horror Story, subtitled Asylum, takes place in 1964 and follows the stories of the staff and inmates who occupy the fictional mental institution Briarcliff Manor, and intercuts with events in the past and present.

  2. Briarcliff Manor is the central location and focus of Asylum and reappears briefly in Freak Show. Located in the state of Massachusetts, near the town of Framingham, the manor was built in 1910 and served as the largest tuberculosis ward on the East Coast. During this time, an estimated 46,000...

  3. Welcome to Briarcliff: Directed by Bradley Buecker. With Zachary Quinto, Joseph Fiennes, Sarah Paulson, Evan Peters. After a life-changing experience, a young man is admitted into a notorious insane asylum, while a local reporter is determined to get the full story.

  4. Asylum is the subtitle for the second season of American Horror Story. The season was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film for Jessica Lange. Asylum was also nominated for seventeen Emmy Awards, winning two.

  5. Nov 1, 2020 · American Horror Story season 2 focused on Briarcliff Manor, a fictional mental asylum operating in the 1960s, and its various staff and patients. Asylum, which featured Sarah Paulson, Jessica Lange, Zachary Quinto, and Evan Peters in lead roles, was well received by critics.

  6. Feb 6, 2013 · Mental institutions became horror stories. Overcrowding led to rampant disease, death was common. And that’s exactly why American Horror Story made the archetypal Asylum the setting of choice...

  7. Set in 1964, American Horror Story: Asylum takes us into a Church-run haven for the criminally insane. Ruled with an iron fist by Sister Jude (Jessica Lange), danger lurks around every corner inside this locked down facility. From Nazis and serial killers to mutants and aliens – no one is safe inside these walls.