It’s been a whole decade since Halloween has not had its accompanying season of American Horror Story, Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk’s outré horror anthology series. (The global pandemic wound up being scarier than any ghost, ghoul, or whatever that weird sex monster in Hotel was.) But just because this year’s installment of Murphy’s spooky flagship series has been sidelined doesn’t mean he can’t still bring the horror. This year his Halloween treat comes in the form of Ratched, a pseudo-origin story for the masochistic nurse in Ken Kesey’s One Flew Over …

Netflix has released a trailer for its high-profile series Ratched, which finds Emmy winner Sarah Paulson playing the wicked nurse from One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Louise Fletcher won an Oscar for her performance opposite Jack Nicholson in the 1975 film based on Ken Kesey's novel of the same name, though based on this trailer, Paulson clearly makes the iconic character her own as she explores Nurse Ratched's twisted origin story. Ratched takes place in 1947 as Mildred Ratched arrives in Northern California to seek employment at a leading psychiatric hospital where new and unsettling …