As the show recently hit Netflix and sits at No. 2 on the streamer's top 10 ranking, The Hollywood Reporter rounds up the discourse from viewers upon watching.

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Now that more reviews have come in, the Rotten Tomatoes score of Ed Gein has sunk more than 20%, and now stands at just a 23% critic score. That’s below the previous two Monster entries, and also Netflix’s True Crime serial killer series, Conversations with a Killer. Here’s how the list breaks down:

Reminiscent of Gein and the horror he inspired, Ramirez went on to haunt pop culture. American Horror Story hammed up this discourse even more in a disturbing Night Stalker storyline in 2019. Taking the public's fears and realising them on-screen, the show portrayed him as a literal evil incarnate (having been raised by the devil).

The Ed Gein Story' imagines Gein as the template for serial killers, but did he correspond with another infamous mass murderer?