# Monster: The Ed Gein Story

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monster-the-ed-gein-story/1023662>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Tags:** tv-shows-scripted, netflix\
**Created:** [October 3, 2025, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monster-the-ed-gein-story/1023662 "2025-10-03T22:04:26Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2025, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monster-the-ed-gein-story/1023662/1 "2025-10-03T22:04:26Z")

</div>

Netflix just dropped this today. I Halloween is as good a season to release it as Mother’s Day. 😉 Ryan Murphy may have stepped back, but Charlie Hunnam still got a lengthy nude scene before the opening credits.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Llama\_Llogophile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@Llama\_Llogophile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Llama_Llogophile)\
**Post date:** [October 10, 2025, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monster-the-ed-gein-story/1023662/2 "2025-10-10T18:00:53Z")

</div>

I think the most interesting part of the series involved Hitchcock, Tobe Hooper and the making of Silence of the Lambs. It’s interesting how this one strange guy from the midwest 75 years ago had such a lasting impact on pop culture.

I don’t know a great deal about Gein, but I’m sure a lot of this series was fictionalized. Some of it to good effect - I laughed at Gein giving a hook rug demonstration in the mental hospital. And that seems to be the subtext of the whole thing: Murders, grave robbing and making people into furniture aside… Gein seemed like a nice enough guy.