Current Events > 'Monster: The Ed Gein Story' on Netflix - You watching?

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Dropped today

Super stoked for this season, might have to do a binge watch over the weekend

I have no interest whatsoever in true crime shit

i liked the previous seasons even tho they're hard to watch. specially the Jeffrey Dahmer one.

i'll definitely check this out as well...

nah, stuff like that is too messed up, for me.

especially knowing it's based on real events.

ZevLoveDOOM posted...

i liked the previous seasons even tho they're hard to watch. specially the Jeffrey Dahmer one.

i'll definitely check this out as well...

Have yet to see the Menendez Bros. season..the next season about Lizzy Borden is a downer, so many others to choose from

Were you the one who made a true crime Ed Gein topic like a week ago? I participated in that. Anyway no I don't do Netflix.

Big fan of stuff about people like that though and I'm from an area where two of the most famous killers have lived and honestly Gein isn't THAT far to a state just north of me. Must be something about this boring farming areas that turn people.

Also the local slaughterhouse would limit time people could be killing pigs because they know it can fuck people up. I found it interesting Gein's dad used to butcher pigs in the doorframe and make Ed change out the blood buckets and made fun of him for being weak. He then would later butcher humans in that same doorframe.

So not going to watch but would probably enjoy it, though I don't care for dramatizations of stories. I prefer straight documentaries that are just factual, has interviews with police, other people, and the killer themselves when footage is available. I find it fascinating.

I also enjoy books about stuff somewhat relating to this. Like one of the better books I ever read on the subject was the Mindhunter book by John Douglas about starting the behavioral science unit at Quantico Virginia for the FBI. Was kind of amazing how those profilers could look at the evidence and tell you what kind of job the person had, how they lived and dressed, whether they knew the victim, whether they lived close or not and all kinds of stuff. Awesome book and discusses some pretty high profile cases.

archizzy posted...

Were you the one who made a true crime Ed Gein topic like a week ago? I participated in that. Anyway no I don't do Netflix.

Negative, that wasnt me

I might check it out when I have the time

UnholyMudcrab posted...

I have no interest whatsoever in true crime shit

Remember those Time-Life book series where they made hardbound volumes? The Enchanted World, Mysteries of the Unknown, all those?

Couple of my friends and I were at a bookstore once that had the True Crime series on clearance, and we each bought the one which appealed most to us. My buddy's wife joked it was an insight into our psychology: I got the one about mass murderers, my buddy got the one about serial killers, and his wife grabbed the one about assassinations.

I know enough of what happened to not have a interest in it.

Scorsese2002 posted...

Have yet to see the Menendez Bros. season..the next season about Lizzy Borden is a downer, so many others to choose from

Lizzy Borden? Damn. Didn't she only kill 2 people? Not much of a serial killer.

archizzy posted...

Were you the one who made a true crime Ed Gein topic like a week ago? I participated in that. Anyway no I don't do Netflix.

Might have been me. I recently made a topic like a week or 2 ago about the trailer for the Ed Gein season

vycebrand2 posted...

I know enough of what happened to not have a interest in it.

This. I also watched the 2012 Hitchcock biopic which had bits on Ed Gein, plus I've seen all the horror movies that are inspired by what he did, so I'm all Ed Gein'd out.

Zikten posted...

Lizzy Borden? Damn. Didn't she only kill 2 people? Not much of a serial killer.

And was not guilty IIRC

Not a fan of these big, glossy drama productions that glorify serial killers. I think they're pretty fucking shit really.

never heard of this dude before and after watching a few episodes, i wish i didnt actually! O_o

also doesnt help that this motherfucker sounded like a demented schizo Winnie The Pooh. his voice just disturbs the hell out of me...

Ed Gein? Maitre d' at Canal Bar?

Eventually

WrestlinFan posted...

Not a fan of these big, glossy drama productions that glorify serial killers. I think they're pretty fucking shit really.

That's another thing about it. I doubt Ed was seeking fame or infamy when he did what he did, because he really was a proper nutcase, but some of the other killers definitely do/did want to be famous, and movies like that reward them and do a disservice to the victims.

I'm okay with movies about a fictional bogeyman like Hannibal Lecter, not so much with ones about Ted Bundy and John Wayne Gacy.

I will check it out eventually

I heard the victims/victims families have been directly impacted by it negatively, and it seems more entertainment than education. That kind of soured it for me.

Actually what am I talking about. The other one, whatever his name was.

okay, that finale... wtf.

we get some low value Mindhunter shit along with some weird fever dream type sequences glorifying this man. like we dont need to hear other serial killers talking about how they were inspired by this man. smh

show was a huge mess overall with all those sequences with nazis, Alfred Hitchcock and Texas Chainsaw Massacre shuffled in between but that finale was easily the worst episode!

Zikten posted...

Lizzy Borden? Damn. Didn't she only kill 2 people? Not much of a serial killer.

Gein and the Menendez brothers were only convicted of killing two people. Borden was most likely innocent.

Not really a fan of this fictionalized stuff. You get the worst of both worlds.

Yes, episode 4 at the moment.

Im in episode 2 right now and I love the look and tone and lighting of it all.
but what is really throwing me off is in the main scenes Ed is close to 40, his love interest/gitlfriend looks 18 and like Regina George from mean girls, like shed be the hottest girl in school. And theyre acting like teenagers, its really throwing me off

found an interesting article explaining what the show got right and wrong: https://www.forbes.com/sites/monicamercuri/2025/10/06/the-ed-gein-story-fact-vs-fiction-what-monster-gets-right-and-wrong/

i suspected that whole low-value Mindhunter segment where he helps catch Ted Bundy seemed bullshit... lol

I just watched episode 2 tonight, its ok. My boyfriend and I have been kind of laughing through most of it.

I tried, struggled through half of the first episode. This one didnt get me gripped at all. If anything, it turned me off it very quickly. Boo hoo, psychopath didnt get what he needed as a child. A lot of us didnt and we arent all serial killers.

It seems like people are finally souring on Ryan Murphy real damn quick.

A lot of this is over the top, but whats messed up is so much of this is not at all and actually happened yet many people will think lots of the fake stuff never happened when it did

why even put the fake stuff anyway? like the scene where he chases the two hunters with a chainsaw.

maybe it might look cool to them but it didnt happen anyway... lol

It wasn't as good as the other ones. I get that they were trying to show how Ed Gein lives on in popular culture but it just comes across as disjoined and kind of out place.

When I was a kid I vaguely thought Aunt Jackie was cute. Years and years later that doesn't mean I want to see her B and B.

Just finished the first episode, had no idea that was Charlie Hunnam from Green Street & Sons of Anarchy. He looked a bit like John Cena.

btw, was that how he actually sounded like?? i still cant get over that goddamn voice! i felt creeped out everytime he opened his mouth!! lol >_<

I will definitely watch this, i love documentaries and i am not bothered by most any content, i was speaking more as to my horror tastes before the edit and kinda sounded like a psycho

I said I wasn't going to watch it but did see it the other day when a relative had it on. What struck me was when Ed's mother had him standing there naked while she was telling him off and he was looking all ripped (as you would expect Charlie Hunnam to look) but the real Ed Gein was scrawny. The cops didn't think him capable of moving all those bodies around because he was so tiny, but if he'd had Hunnam's body, they wouldn't have had any doubts, lol.

yeah, dude seemed kinda ripped for a psycopath.

not to mention he did get laid frequently for someone who is a loner... lol

ZevLoveDOOM posted...

btw, was that how he actually sounded like?? i still cant get over that goddamn voice! i felt creeped out everytime he opened his mouth!! lol >_<

Seems that was another area where they took liberties, I guess because they wanted to make him creepier. The real Ed was a bit quiet, but I don't hear anything remarkable about his voice... certainly not the crazed cartoon sound they give him in the show. He sounds like a regular farmer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gppW1Ku-uJk

oh yeah, forgot to mention another thing: did anyone else felt convinced when looking at the older version of Ed Gein? lets just slap a grey haired wig on him and voil! lmao