Grotesquerie
Ryan Murphy's detective series about a series of killings that read as tableaux.
Grotesquerie opens with a main title sequence of 32 seconds.
At 32 seconds, it opens well under the 50-second median for horror sequences in this catalogue.
It arrived on FX in 2024, when Feud, What We Do in the Shadows and American Sports Story were also on the network.
The opening titles
Season 1
32sFan upload.
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