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Infantata
| Thaddeus Montgomery/Infantata | |
|---|---|
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| Appearances | |
| Portrayed by | Benjamin Woolf |
| First Appearance | Pilot |
| Last Appearance | Birth |
| Information | |
| Species | Re-animated Human, Undead |
| Gender | Male |
| Hair Color | White |
| Eye Color | Black |
| Born | 1920s |
| Died | 1926 |
| Cause of Death | Dismembered |
| Relatives | Nora Montgomery (mother) Charles Montgomery (father) |
Infantata is a being crafted from the pieced together remains of Charles and Nora Montgomery's child, Thaddeus.
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Background 
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Charles performed abortions in the basement of the house in the 1920s to alleviate his family's financial distress. Unfortunately, one of his patients told her boyfriend, who kidnapped Thaddeus and dismembered him in an act of revenge. After the pieces were returned to the Doctor Montgomery in jars, he lost his mind and attempted to sew his son back together, bringing Thaddeus back as the Infantata. To acheive this, he told Nora he used "the beating heart of one of our girls", presumably referring to an almost fully developed fetus he removed from one of the patients.
When Nora tried to nurse the reanimated Thaddeus, it bit her to quench its blood lust. She then attempted to kill it with a letter opener, but to no avail. Nora would later kill Charles and herself over what their lives had become.
The Infantata once attacked Tate when he was a young boy. Nora rescued him and told him it would disappear if he closed his eyes and told it to go away, which began her motherly relationship with the boy.
Despite this, Ryan Murphy has said that the Infantata is not a ghost, but a still-living creature that has been eating possums and bugs to sustain himself, and that he typically does not leave his hole in the basement unless provoked.[1][2]
Episodic Appearances Edit
- "Pilot": In a flashback to 1978, Infantata kills the trespassing twin boys, Troy and Bryan. In the present time, Infantata, along with Tate, scares Leah to stop her from harassing Violet at school.
- "Murder House": Infantata appears as human in this, sitting at the table.
- "Halloween: Part 1": Infantata's origins are explained to Violet Harmon by Tate.
- "Open House": Thaddeus' name is given and origins are elaborated on.
- "Birth": A flashback to 1984, shows Tate was attacked by the Infantata as a child. Nora saved him and taught him how to make ghosts disappear in case it ever happened again.
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Ryan Murphy on the Infantata Edit
Q: Why is he bloodthirsty? Is that to keep him alive?
Ryan Murphy: "Yes. I think with any sort of horror show, you get what is the myth of that creature? And I think the approach we took to that is it’s sort of half-Frankenstein, half-Dracula. Left by himself in the house. Bloodthirsty. We’ve shown in other episodes where he’s been eating possums and bugs to sustain himself." [3]
Q: Is the Infantata still alive?
Ryan Murphy: "He's down there scavenging for bugs and eating possums until some other poor souls go down there." [4]
Notes Edit
- Concerning Infantata's design, Ryan Murphy states that the mouth is based off of a leech mouth. The character's overall "look" is inspired by the genetic disease Progeria, and the character's clothing is inspired by one worn by the Lindbergh Baby.
References Edit
- ↑ Stack, Tim, "'American Horror Story': Ryan Murphy on Constance's brood and next week's Rubber Man reveal", EW, 16 Nov 2011
- ↑ Stack, Tim, "'American Horror Story': Ryan Murphy talks the game-changing season finale", EW, 22 Dec 2011
- ↑ Stack, Tim, "'American Horror Story': Ryan Murphy on Constance's brood and next week's Rubber Man reveal", EW, 16 Nov 2011
- ↑ Stack, Tim, "'American Horror Story': Ryan Murphy talks the game-changing season finale", EW, 22 Dec 2011
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