Netflix’s Ratched Gets a New Poster

Netflix’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo‘s Nest prequel, Ratched isn’t set to debut until September 18th, but fans don’t have to wait to get their latest look at American Horror Story alum Sarah Paulson as the titular Nurse Mildred Ratched. Paulson shared a brand-new poster for the series on Twitter on Monday and, like the previously shared posters, this new one has the same chilling, sleek 1940s aesthetic — and teases just how terrifying Nurse Ratched may be.

From Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan, Ratched is a drama series that reveals the origin story of asylum nurse Mildred Ratched. In 1947, Mildred arrived in Northern California to seek employment at a leading psychiatric hospital where new and unsettling experiments have begun on the human mind. On a clandestine mission, Mildred presents herself as the perfect image of what a dedicated nurse should be, but the wheels are always turning. As she begins to infiltrate the mental health care system and those within it, Mildred’s stylish exterior belies growing darkness that has long been smoldering within, revealing that real monsters are made, not born.

“I feel like Nurse Ratched is sort of a shorthand for barbarism,” Murphy said. “She became almost like a catchphrase for any sort of institutional abuse of power. What was interested was trying to create an emotional character from a reputation that’s very cold…trying to figure out every little detail about her childhood, her relationships, her sexuality. Because when people think of Ratched, they think of her as shutoff and cruel and uncaring.”

Evan Romansky created Ratched for Netflix. The series stars Sarah Paulson as Mildred Ratched, Cynthia Nixon as Gwendolyn Briggs, Judy Davis as Nurse Betsy Bucket, Sharon Stone as Lenore Osgood, Jon Jon Briones as Dr. Richard Hanover, Finn Wittrock as Edmund Tolleson, Charlie Carver as Huck, Alice Englert as Dolly, Amanda Plummer as Louise, Corey Stoll as Charles Wainwright, Sophie Okonedo as Charlotte and Vincent D’Onofrio as Gov. George Wilburn. The series is executive produced by Ryan Murphy, Ian Brennan, Sarah Paulson, Alexis Martin Woodall, Aleen Keshishian, Jacob Epstein, Jennifer Salt, Margaret Riley, Michael Douglas, Robert Mitas and Tim Minear.

Ratched debuts on Netflix on September 18th.

Will you be checking out Ratched? Let us know your thoughts about this new poster as well as whether or not you’re excited for the series in the comments!