Did you know that the same real-life serial killer inspired the likes of Psycho, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, andThe Silence of the Lambs?
Ryan Murphy’s latest Netflix series, Monster: The Ed Gein Story, is keen to remind you that Gein’s gruesome reputation has loomed large over the American horror canon for decades. Yet in giving into their own worst voyeuristic impulses and failing to make its central character into anything resembling a human being, the latest installment of the Monster anthology series that dropped last week once again lapses into the very sort of titillation it claims to critique.
<video id="zEY5OyCm" poster="https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/zEY5OyCm/poster.jpg"><source src="https://cdn.jwplayer.com/videos/zEY5OyCm.mp4" type="video/mp4"></source></video>The post Netflix’s ‘Monster: The Ed Gein Story’ Is Serial Killer Horror at Its Worst appeared first on The Daily Beast