"He may not have the same brand recognition as Dahmer, Bundy or even John Wayne Gacy, and he only killed two people, but he desecrated so many female graves and corpses with such gusto and inventiveness that to this day if you find yourself watching anything involving mutilated corpses, flayed bodies or homewares made out of skin, the chances are it's been inspired by this guy's exploits more than 70 years ago."
"And they say that people don't know history any more! Do I sound flippant? Well, it's clearly the way everyone behind Monster: The Ed Gein Story wants it. I've rarely seen a drama that lingers more gleefully or lasciviously over the worst depredations a man and when it comes to the substantial narrative strand given over to Nazi atrocities mankind can commit with little or no possible justification."
"Structurally and stylistically, it's great. Can't fault the pacing, the clever interweaving of the past (in which Charlie Hunnam as Gein commits the murders, the grave robberies, and assembles his collection of female body parts) and the present (in which the details of his crimes are pored over again by Alfred Hitchcock, Robert Bloch and Anthony Perkins as they create Psycho from Bloch's Gein-inspired novel)."
Ryan Murphy's anthology series Monster shifts focus to Ed Gein, linking his crimes to major horror icons like Norman Bates, Buffalo Bill and Leatherface. The portrayal emphasizes Gein's grave desecrations, corpse mutilations and inventive use of human remains, arguing those acts shaped later horror imagery. The series pairs past depictions of Gein committing murders and grave robberies with present sequences showing Alfred Hitchcock, Robert Bloch and Anthony Perkins transforming Gein-inspired material into Psycho. The drama foregrounds structural and stylistic strengths—pacing and interweaving timelines—while adopting a gleeful, lascivious gaze on extreme depredations. Gein's life is shown as dominated by his fervidly religious mother.
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