When AHS: Hotel opens its doors this fall, only screams will be heard in the hallways. Find out what else to expect when the series begins this October.

After last year’s use of unlikely songbirds Jessica Lange, Sarah Paulson, and Evan Peters, the casting call for AHS‘s fifth installment looked like it was gearing up to put on a show-stopping number and boost those iTunes sales in Ryan Murphy’s favor.

However, Cheyenne Jackson, Matt Bomer, and the queen of pop herself, Lady Gaga are only lending their acting chops and not their talented pipes to the Hotel installment. Ryan Murphy, speaking to Deadline, had this to say, ““People, keep saying to me, ‘What numbers are they singing, what numbers are they singing?’ and I say, ‘There will be no numbers.'” Honestly, after you put Jessica Lange on a rocket ship and have her sing “Life on Mars,” and have Stevie Nicks teaching Lily Rabe how to twirl, why bother?

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Murphy continues, “The interesting thing is we cast a lot of singers this season, but I like that singers — for the most part — [are] great actors, because they know how to sell a story through song. I’m excited about that and I think that’s why Gaga was excited about it; it’s not something that she’s ever done before.” Murphy has a talent for writing roles that people cannot turn down. Lady Gaga is no exception. He even goes as far as to call her role, “bananas good.”

So what can we expect to see in place of the musical numbers? Murphy teases a much darker installment. Where Freak Show acted as a passion project collaboration between Lange and Murphy, Hotel comes straight from the showrunner’s mind. He says, “The upcoming season that we’re doing is much more horror-based; it’s much more dark. It’s about a theme and an idea that’s very close to my heart that I’ve always wanted to do that’s a little bloodier and grislier I think than anything that we’ve done before; it’s straight horror this year.”

Hopefully he is able to deliver the “grislier” horror and keep a coherent story running throughout the star packed guest list.

For the full list of who’s checking in to the AHS: Hotel check out our up to date casting announcement, including, as of today, Denis O’Hare’s confirmed return!

Murphy’s horror passion project has been heralded as the perfect place to find strong female driven stories. This season, however, Murphy is putting a twist on the series and turning the focus slightly to the men of the hotel. He says, “This year, it’s a true ensemble and I think we have more male parts and more male stories. The Wes Bentley part is really big, the Matt Bomer part is really big; Evan Peters and Finn Wittrock are really big.”

But don’t worry, the ladies are still holding their own on the hotel grounds. Murphy continues, “That’s not to say that the women aren’t either; I mean Kathy Bates and Gaga and Paulson’s part and Angela Bassett’s part are great. But I guess it’s a different tone this year than we’ve had.”

AHS: Hotel begins checking in this October on FX.