*Contains spoilers for Monster: The Ed Gein Story*
The latest instalment of Ryan Murphy's Monster series on Netflix focuses on the abhorrent crimes and twisted mind of Ed Gein, who became a notorious grave digger and butcher in the 1900s - and everyone is hooked.
The grizzly dramatisation flicks between Gein's life, which sees him become infatuated with his ultra-religious mother following her death (which prompts him to begin his grave-digging quest), and the making of Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho, a film inspired by Gein's crimes.
Throughout the eight-episode series, we see Gein (played by Charlie Hunnam), go on a slaying spree and dismember his victims, before using their limbs and skin to create household objects, from chairs, to bowls that he eats from each day.
We also see his bizarre romance with wannabe crime scene photographer, Adeline Watkins unfold, who is curious by Gein's awkward personality, but comes face-to-face with his dark secret when she uncovers the corpse of 'Mother' in a bedroom.
"Who was the monster? This poor boy who was abused his whole life then left in total isolation, suffering from undiagnosed mental illness?" co-creator of the show, Hunnam asks Tudum. "Or the legion of people who sensationalized his life for entertainment and arguably darkened the American psyche and the global psyche in the process?"
Whichever side of the argument you're on, we can all mutually agree that it makes for a rather disturbing watch.
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