One of the subplots in this particular season is demon possession. The second episode has a 17 year old boy, called Jed Potter, admitted to Briarcliff Manor Asylum because his parents are concerned that he has been possessed by the devil as he killed a cow, ate the heart and started speaking in Latin.
His face is pale and he is sweating. There is also blood and the veins are evident on the side of his face as the demon/devil is being exorcised.
He is able to refer to Sister Judes (Jessica Lange) past crime of a hit and run accident, and he makes the ghost of the girl she killed appear in the room adjacent to his, saying "you never even got out of the car".
After the exorcism the demon jumps into Sister Mary Eunice (Lily Rabe) who, in a later episode can be seen with red and yellow eyes. She also kills someone in a later episode while they are praying and makes references to the fact that she "is the devil".
She keeps her human appearance (aside from when her possession shows through in the picture below) and eventually breaks free long enough to ask someone to kill her, which they do. When she dies, the demon is taken at the same time as her soul.
My film opening is using the idea of demon possession and the way it is represented in American Horror Story: Asylum is useful in terms of how I can represent it myself in my film opening.
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