"Streaming now on Netflix is Monster: The Ed Gein Story, a new dramatic interpretation of Ed Gein and his crimes by TV juggernaut Ryan Murphy. Charlie Hunnam stars as Gein, a lonely man living in 1950s Plainfield, Wisconsin, whose self-taught taxidermy and upbringing under an ultra-religious motherwho was disgusted by women, deeming them sexual monstersresults in body snatching, grave robbing, and at least two confirmed murders."
"When Ed Gein was arrested in 1957, horror writer Robert Bloch was living 35 minutes away in Weyauwega, Wisconsin. On his own accord, Bloch was inspired by his small town to imagine a story where the unassuming person living next door possessed tremendous capacity for evil. He was nearly finished with his draft of Psycho when the Ed Gein case made headlines."
In 1960 Hitchcock's Psycho shocked audiences with unprecedented violence, gore, and erotic undercurrents. Two years earlier, Ed Gein's crimes became public, revealing grave robbing, body snatching, and confirmed murders linked to his taxidermy and oppressive upbringing by an ultra-religious mother. Robert Bloch, living nearby when Gein was arrested, had nearly finished Psycho and later recognized striking similarities between his fictional Norman Bates and Gein's motives and acts. Netflix released Monster: The Ed Gein Story, a Ryan Murphy dramatization starring Charlie Hunnam as Gein, highlighting overlaps between real crimes and fictional horror portrayals.
Read at www.esquire.com
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]