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| “ | It's an experience. It's a cinematic happening. A horror movie where the horror isn't on-screen, it's in the audience. | „ |
| ~ Bitterman explaining why he created Rabbit Rabbit. |
| “ | Okay, I know you're… angry right now, but try to appreciate the big picture. You were a witness to history! You could retire to the lecture circuit! You'll never have to work another day! Take the win and get on with your lives! | „ |
| ~ Bitterman trying to reason with Chad and Kelley. |
Lawrence "Larry" Bitterman is the main antagonist of "Drive In", the third episode of the horror anthology series American Horror Stories.
He is an egotistical filmmaker who created Rabbit Rabbit, a 1990s horror movie containing subliminal signals that will drive the audience insane and make them start killing one another. After being arrested and having most prints destroyed, Bitterman returns in 2021 with another print, intending to repeat the process again in front of a new audience.
He was portrayed by John Carroll Lynch, who also played multiple other characters in American Horror Story, including Twisty the Clown in Freak Show, John Wayne Gacy in Hotel and Mr. Jingles in 1984. He also played Sheriff Bob Ryan in Gothika and Arthur Leigh Allen in Zodiac.
Personality[]
Larry Bitterman, is a emotionless, sadistic yet envious and arrogant individual as his last name suggests with the plural for Bitter, He takes pride in what he describes as “His life’s work” becoming an arrogant narcissistic when he considers those who do not appreciate his work, even as going so far to attack a judge while refuting with an inappropriate mark during his hearing for the removal of his movie “Rabbit Rabbit” before being arrested, Larry continues on going down in Cinema history for an authentic Horror movie, when being confronted by Chad, Harry refers to his audience as “Critics” who do not appreciate his “Life’s work” as he boasts about his movie, Even before his death he decides to laugh after creating a successful movie in his own view in succeeding on creating a horror movie.
Biography[]
1990s[]
Larry Bitterman was a filmmaker who worked on The Exorcist, inserting subliminal images and sounds to scare the audience. Wanting to create the "perfect" horror movie that would drive the audience insane and bring the horror into the real world, Bitterman began working on Rabbit Rabbit, a film loaded with subliminals so intense that it drove one of the film's editors to begin cutting of her fingers, much to his Glee as he would find from his first experience that his own prints started to work before finding a distributor after being able to complete his movie.
Upon the movie's premiere, the audience was driven insane and began killing each other, much to Bitterman's glee. Bitterman was arrested and put on trial in 1986, where second lady Tipper Gore from the congressional hearing hereby ordered that all remaining prints of Rabbit Rabbit be destroyed, resulting in Bitterman attacking her in a rage. Larry spends 15 years for most of his life behind bars for his assault prior to being released, he seeks to perfect his formula around the prison in secretly, patiently waiting before being released years later.
2020s[]
Larry Bitterman would emerge years after completing his sentence where a drive-by theatre gave a limited showing from the rare film, inviting a couple chad and Kelley out of curiosity. this gave a concern from one fo his previous victims named Ruth who's boyfriend was driven into pulling out and eating his own eyeballs from the screening, She would protests towards the traffic line of vehicles who were trying to make it towards the film. Larry tasked the unnamed hooded figure at the projection from his latest screening of "Rabbit Rabbit" through paper on how to set up the movie as it started to premiere, targeting Dee, Verna and Tillis along with many passengers who's eye became bloodshot by attacking another car next to Chad who ignores it. Larry would be tracked down by Chad and Kelley who would lock themselves in the projector room, becoming determined on finding the second copy from the printed film through a truck that would lead into finding him inside of his own trailer, justifying that there wasn't a second print of his own film while explaining distaste at the media for blacklisting his own movie, Kelley then shoots Larry Bitterman in the leg with a shotgun as Chad demands where he is keeping the other print after deducing that there wasn't any splices, Larry initially refuses to answer but was forced to reveal the other reel inside of a box nearby where both Chad and Kelley proceed to burn down his trailer along with Larry leaving him to burn alive as they exited the trailer, Larry then taunts the couple that he will be remembered among Cinema History while laughing before succumbing to the flames inside. Despite his death the ending of the episode shows that some prints of his life's work for the full movie "Rabbit Rabbit" had survived which would eventually ended up added to the streaming platform Netflix, as a scenery of a town would create global chaos as explosions began to affect the town.
External links[]
- Larry Bitterman on the Pure Evil Wiki
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