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Monster: The Ed Gein Story implies that the titular serial killer inspired Psycho's villain, but the truth is actually a lot more complicated.

Psycho was the horror movie that forever changed Hollywood, and its storyline resembles certain parts of Ed Gein's life. In Monster: The Ed Gein Story, the latest season of the Netflix anthology ...

In the Netflix series we see Hitchcock escorting Perkins around the Psycho film set, which is an exact replica of Ed Gein's farmhouse. The 1960 classic, however, is actually set in a motel. It tells ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X The eight-episode season also explored how Gein’s crimes helped true crime evolve into a pop ...

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The Life of a Showgirl just dropped, but true crime fans have spent the weekend with Ryan Murphy’s creepiest Monster muse, Ed Gein. Monster: The Ed Gein Story landed on Netflix on 3rd October, ...

Ed Gein was a Wisconsin grave robber and serial murderer from Plainfield, who has inspired notorious fictional serial killers, from Norman Bates in Psycho to the Buffalo Bill character in Silence of ...

Ed Gein’s brother Henry Gein did die in a suspicious manner, but his cause of death was not listed as murder. Ed Gein was a Wisconsin grave robber and serial murderer from Plainfield, who has inspired ...

In Ryan Murphy’s Monster: The Ed Gein story, the Wisconsin murderer and grave robber is shown with a girlfriend named Adeline Watkins. She brings a brief glimpse of humanity into the macabre story, ...

Many names have been used to refer to small-town Wisconsin serial killer and farmer Ed Gein in the 20th century, but the one that has seemed to stick since his crimes were discovered in 1957 is that ...