'American Horror Story: Hotel' Actors Explain That Serial Killer Dinner

The “American Horror Story: Hotel ” episode “Devil’s Night” premiered just a few days before Halloween last year. Now, nearly a year later, as Halloween creeps toward us yet again, it’s time to revisit that bloody dinner for serial killers.

In the episode, the hotel hosts a dinner that includes ghosts of John Wayne Gacy, Jeffrey Dahmer, Aileen Wuornos and Richard Ramirez. The Zodiac Killer is also there, but it’s unclear if he/she is definitely a ghost since nobody has ever officially identified the killer.

Context for the meeting is a bit thin in the episode, but, in an exclusive clip provided to The Huffington Post, the actors behind Gacy and Dahmer give a bit more insight into the proceedings.

“When we first started playing the scene, I realized we don’t know where any of them have come from,” the actor Seth Gabel, who played Dahmer, says in the clip. “I had some sense that I was dead. I had some sense of all the terrible things that I had done. But suddenly, I’m at this dinner table and, oh, I have some vague recollection of this happening every year, but in between they probably are burning in hell somewhere, suffering horrible torment.”

Gabel gave some additional background information on the dinner, continuing, “This one day a year, they get to kind of celebrate their true nature, which is messed up.”

In the clip, John Carroll Lynch, who played Gacy, goes into the specific quirks of his character, saying that his favorite detail of Gacy is that he had built his own tiki bar in his home. Lynch made sure to incorporate that detail by drinking an umbrella-filled drink in the episode. “That brings that tiki bar to the hotel.”

“American Horror Story: Hotel” is now available on Blu-ray, DVD and Digital HD.

Watch the full clip below: