The story of killer Ed Gein has been portrayed in Ryan Murphy 's latest Monster anthology series installment, Monster: The Ed Gein Story. In the show, Charlie Hunnam plays the real-life killer whose ...

An expert who wrote the book on Ed Gein has slammed Netflix’s new true crime drama Monster: The Ed Gein Story , and may even take legal action.

Professor Mullen stated: "Gein was diagnosed at the time with a schizophrenic illness, based on broad and outdated criteria. "Contemporary reports describe him as shy, self-absorbed, and socially ...

Ed Gein, the reali-life killer who inspired Norman Bates, Leatherface and Buffalo Bill in The Silence of the Lambs, is back in 'Monster: The Ed Gein Story' ...

Ed Gein is widely said to have had an Oedipal relationship with his mother, Augusta, who controlled him from childhood and abused him all his life. However, unlike his brother who was able to leave ...

The Ed Gein Story takes dramatic liberties with the real-life crimes of Ed Gein by exaggerating several plot points.

Monster: The Ed Gein Story ends with a flashback, in which Ed and Augusta are peacefully sitting on their front porch. Augusta is knitting, while Ed takes a sip of lemonade. She looks over at him and ...

Gein was never officially tied to his brother’s death. Gein’s older brother Henry (played by Hudson Oz) makes a brief appearance in the first episode, only for Ed to murder him. In the show, after ...

Netflix’s Monster: The Ed Gein Story shows Ed Gein’s so-called girlfriend, Adeline Watkins, as a long-term, complicated figure in his life, but it skips over what actually happened to her after his ...

Monster: The Ed Gein Story takes a lot of liberties with the true story of Ed Gein. Here are some of the most fictional elements of the series.

Speaking of babysitting, another murder that Gein is portrayed as committing in Monster: The Ed Gein Story is that of a babysitter, Evelyn Hartley. He abducts, tortures, and kills Hartley in the ...

Played in the series by Suzanna Son, Adeline Watkins was a real-life woman and one of the few people who knew Ed Gein intimately. The show largely portrays her as an accomplice to Gein’s heinous ...