Actress Emma Roberts arrives at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute Gala 2015
IN PHOTO: Actress Emma Roberts arrives at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute Gala 2015 celebrating the opening of "China: Through the Looking Glass," in Manhattan, New York May 4, 2015. Reuters/Lucas Jackson

The first official full trailer of “Scream Queens” is out. It not only introduces the characters but also sums up the storyline. Created by the creative men -- Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk and Ian Brennan -- behind “Glee” and “American Horror Story,” the Fox’s new horror-comedy show is set on a college campus that is rocked by a series of murders. Each of the character is a suspect, with a motive to kill. It is only in the last episode that the identity of the red-masked killer, the Red Devil, will be revealed.

The nearly three-minute long trailer opens with the murder of a sorority girl. The girl was killed twenty years ago after a sorority pledge went wrong and it looks like the culprit was never caught, as the preview text says, “A mystery was born.” The revenge for that murder begins in the present time.

The preview clip introduces a group of snobbish sorority girls of Kappa Kappa Tau, or KKT, including Emma Roberts’ character, Chanel Oberlin, who is the leader of the mean girl pack. The school’s dean Kathy Munsch, played by Jamie Lee Curtis, seems to be anti-sorority, as she is seen making it clear to Chanel that she neither likes sororities nor her. Plus she directs her to accept every single pledge. This leads to the entry of misfits, who otherwise would have never got a chance to be anywhere close to KKT girls. The not-typical pledge class includes Lea Michele, playing a girl with scoliosis, Hester ‘Neckbrace'.

The trailer indicates that the entry of the misfits starts the revenge game, with one of the new girls becoming the first victim. The new show from Murphy, Falchuk and Brennan is light in tone despite the serial killer on loose, and it seems to be full of superficial characters and scenes that scream parody.

“When anti-Kappa Dean Munsch decrees that sorority pledging must be open to all students a devil-clad killer begins wreaking havoc,” according to Fox’s one line plot-line. Meanwhile, WGNO has quoted Murphy as saying that the show is a “cross between Heathers and Friday the 13th.”

[Source: Youtube/Scream Queens]

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