"The writer-director has been called "tasteless" over the depiction of the closeted gay actor, who famously played Norman Bates in the 1960 film, Psycho. The film is one of several that has been based on Ed Gein over the years, others including The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and The Silence of the Lambs. Charlie Hunnam plays Gein in , which examines Gein's horrific acts including murders, the exhuming of corpses, and using body parts to create masks as well as furniture and utensils."
"Rumours about Perkins' sexuality followed the actor since he made his Broadway debut in 1954's Tea And Sympathy. Monster shows Perkins, who remained closeted his whole life, in a secret relationship with Hollywood heartthrob, Tab Hunter, who came out as gay in his 2005 memoir, Tab Hunter Confidential: The Making of a Movie Star in which he discussed the pair's relationship."
Ryan Murphy's Monster anthology dramatizes Ed Gein's crimes and their media legacy, focusing on murders, grave exhumations, and the use of body parts to fashion masks, furniture and utensils. Charlie Hunnam portrays Gein while Anthony Perkins appears as a subplot, shown as a closeted actor cast in Psycho by Alfred Hitchcock. The series presents Perkins in a secret relationship with Tab Hunter, drawn from Hunter's 2005 memoir. Viewers reacted negatively to the Perkins portrayal, calling it tasteless. A scene features Hitchcock's monologue linking repressed "urges," secrecy, and sickness, implying a connection between sexual repression and Gein's homicidal acts.
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