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With Monster: The Ed Gein Story, Netflix Revels in Darkness
Ryan Murphy says the series addresses mental illness and societal obligations, highlighting Ed Gein's schizophrenia and aims to explain rather than glorify his crimes, he said.
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With Monster: The Ed Gein Story, Netflix revels in darkness
Netflix’s Monster series began with ambition. The Jeffrey Dahmer season wasn’t an easy watch, but it asked important questions: How did police and parents miss so many warning signs? Why were victims and witnesses ignored? It was disturbing, yes, but it had purpose. The Menendez brothers’ season also went beyond the headline-grabbing trials to explore family dysfunction, abuse, and the complexities of justice. Both installments had something to …
When the police entered Ed Gein's house in Plainfield, Wisconsin, United States in November 1957, they discovered a creepy scenario. Inside the house they found chairs lined with human skin, lamps made with faces, skulls decorating shelves and corpses hung as slaughterhouse meat.This case shook the United States and served as inspiration for classic horror films such as Psychosis (1960), The Texas Massacre (1974) and The Silence of the Innocents…
Ryan Murphy goes beyond horrors in ‘Ed Gein Story’
Already a streaming phenomenon on Netflix, Ryan Murphy’s latest “Monster” installment is “The Ed Gein Story.” Gein is the notorious body snatcher and suspected serial killer of 1950s Wisconsin who inspired the now-classic horror films “Psycho,” “The Silence of the Lambs” and “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.” In a virtual press conference with Charlie Hunnam (“Sons of Anarchy”), his Ed Gein, Murphy, 59, discussed and defended this “Monster” with its…
At each new season, the play "Monstro" played the gyco antol again with its portraits of the life of real killers. It was so with "Dahmer: An American Cannibal" (2022), with "Irm the Mendez: Assassins of the Parents" (2024) and, now, with "The Hest Rial of Ed Gein", who starred at the eating of the m s in Netflix. Read more (10/12/2025
The story of the Plainfield Butcher (Wisconsin), Ed Gein, has been inspired in films such as Psychosis, The Texas Massacre or The Silence of the Lambs. Now, Ryan Murphy rescues her for Netflix in her third installment of the Monsters series. The director reviews (and fictionates) some of the details that help to understand Gein’s life through the link with her mother, her crimes, her relationship with the femininity, her diagnosis, or the media …
Monster: Ed Gein's story tells what happened to the Plainfield Butcher. We tell you the real story behind the series.
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