Badlucktroll
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The story that inspired Psycho, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and Silence Of The Lambs
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Monster The Ed Gein Story
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DonkeyPunchJr
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Oh man what a fucked up story. Hope I have the stomach for it.
That song gives me the creeps every time
That song gives me the creeps every time
DreamcastSkies
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I always think of this scene when I hear that name.
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Nocty
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I was watching TCM not a few weekends ago. It's still one of the best horror movies of all time.
Ed Gein was a piece of work. Police found bowls made from human skulls and a box of vulvas. One of the preserved vulvas reportedly had lipstick applied. Another lesse known detail about the case was investigators found a belt made entirely of human nipples, which is often left out of casual retellings.
Ed Gein was a piece of work. Police found bowls made from human skulls and a box of vulvas. One of the preserved vulvas reportedly had lipstick applied. Another lesse known detail about the case was investigators found a belt made entirely of human nipples, which is often left out of casual retellings.
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Peggies
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"When I see a pretty girl walking down the street, I think two things. One part wants to be real nice and sweet, and the other part wonders what her head would look like on a stick."
I love how fucked up that is.
JoduanER2
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The story that inspired Psycho, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and Silence Of The Lambs
This looks hilariously bad and chessy
Stitch
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It's season 3 of the Monsters series
This was 2
Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story - Wikipedia
Beretta
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I am beyond excited for this. The first two seasons were awesome. Season 4 is going to be Lizzie Borden.
I love that they chose Ed, his story isn't told very often. I'm a big fan of serial killers (this isn't what it sounds like LOL) I think their stories are intriguing and I have an interest in how their brains operate, what happened in their life that triggered them.
I love that they chose Ed, his story isn't told very often. I'm a big fan of serial killers (this isn't what it sounds like LOL) I think their stories are intriguing and I have an interest in how their brains operate, what happened in their life that triggered them.
Beretta
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When you get to I believe it was episode 5, I didn't really like that one, I found it kinda boring. It's an entire single take episode. It's basically the camera focused on an individual as it slowly moves closer to the face. Maybe you will enjoy it, the context of what's being said is deep, but I just didn't like the way they did it. The rest of the season is great though.
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GymWolf
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The actor is trying to pull off a bates motel with that voice tone, if you know you know
Edit: nope, it sound different in other parts.
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Bojji
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Yeah, that episode was completely pointless. Overall I think it was good, I can't believe that someone can be that stupid and hate their parents so much to kill them in such way...
Attorney actress cast was spot on:
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saintjules
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On episode 4 now. It's definitely weird, but not as gruesome as I thought it would be (so far).
Edit: spoke too soon.
Edit: spoke too soon.
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Beretta
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Finished it late Friday night.
For those who don't know, that's how Ed really talked. Anyway, episode 2 was dumb and the first half of episode 7 was ultra boring. Also, Adeline was real, she was with Ed for like two decades. Just pointing that out as I've seen a lot of people think they just made her up for a random love interest storyline.
This is going to be long, sorry but thank you to anyone who reads it lol
I think the show may have been better if they used at least the first episode to show his childhood and teenage years so you get an understanding of him and his early life. A lot of people go in to this season not knowing who Ed Gein is because he's not a Bundy or a Dahmer who are more well known. I've been interested in serial killers (what made them that way, etc) since I was 13 so I'm going in knowing who these guys are but unless you've dived in to that topic, there's probably a good chance you're like who the fuck is Ed Gein?
They didn't show anything about his father who was abusive towards Ed and Henry when they were children. Showing that coupled with his preaching mother would have set things in motion for the viewer to understand he didn't grow up in a normal household. Instead, they just throw you in to adult Ed rubbing one out in his mom's clothes and you don't know why you're there. The quick childhood 60 second flashback didn't show you much.
Ed was a cool choice because his story is hardly told but 8 episodes was too much and they seemed to stretch some things to fill the time. The ham radio part for example felt never ending and dreadful. He wasn't your typical serial killer with only 2 names under his belt and how much story can you really get out of a guy who dug up bodies to make furniture?
I am looking forward to the Lizzie Borden season next.
For those who don't know, that's how Ed really talked. Anyway, episode 2 was dumb and the first half of episode 7 was ultra boring. Also, Adeline was real, she was with Ed for like two decades. Just pointing that out as I've seen a lot of people think they just made her up for a random love interest storyline.
This is going to be long, sorry but thank you to anyone who reads it lol
They got some stuff wrong like his brother was face down in a field and Ed never fucked corpses, they even asked him in an interview and he denied it saying they smelled too bad, he only skinned them and had taken organs out of some. I've never read about him jerking off to or even wearing women's clothing so I don't know where they got that from.
Richard Speck (the one who murdered the nurses) wasn't a transsexual so I have no idea why he was made to be one in this….other than "we have to include someone from this group". This made no sense to add.
His mom was irl just as cunty as she was in the show (lol Jackie great job though) and the storyline of Ed banging Bernice was a dumb addition, I've never seen anything about them having any kind of relationship. She disappeared one day and was found dead just like in the show but the hooking up, never heard of that. If that is somewhere out there and I've somehow missed it, okay then.
Adeline irl also turned his marriage proposal down she didn't accept like in the show.
Richard Speck (the one who murdered the nurses) wasn't a transsexual so I have no idea why he was made to be one in this….other than "we have to include someone from this group". This made no sense to add.
His mom was irl just as cunty as she was in the show (lol Jackie great job though) and the storyline of Ed banging Bernice was a dumb addition, I've never seen anything about them having any kind of relationship. She disappeared one day and was found dead just like in the show but the hooking up, never heard of that. If that is somewhere out there and I've somehow missed it, okay then.
Adeline irl also turned his marriage proposal down she didn't accept like in the show.
I think the show may have been better if they used at least the first episode to show his childhood and teenage years so you get an understanding of him and his early life. A lot of people go in to this season not knowing who Ed Gein is because he's not a Bundy or a Dahmer who are more well known. I've been interested in serial killers (what made them that way, etc) since I was 13 so I'm going in knowing who these guys are but unless you've dived in to that topic, there's probably a good chance you're like who the fuck is Ed Gein?
They didn't show anything about his father who was abusive towards Ed and Henry when they were children. Showing that coupled with his preaching mother would have set things in motion for the viewer to understand he didn't grow up in a normal household. Instead, they just throw you in to adult Ed rubbing one out in his mom's clothes and you don't know why you're there. The quick childhood 60 second flashback didn't show you much.
Ed was a cool choice because his story is hardly told but 8 episodes was too much and they seemed to stretch some things to fill the time. The ham radio part for example felt never ending and dreadful. He wasn't your typical serial killer with only 2 names under his belt and how much story can you really get out of a guy who dug up bodies to make furniture?
I am looking forward to the Lizzie Borden season next.
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Stafford
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I kept reading how much inaccuracies or flat out fabricated shit was in this, and during several scènes I sure had that feeling too. Turns out that indeed a lot is just straight up bullshit.
Not just some small stuff either. I don't recall seeing a whole lot of this criticism when season 1 (Dahmer) came out , so I'm gonna assume that a lot of that was accurate.
I just finished the show too. You sure about the voice? Because I read a comparison a while ago and it was very different, the real one had a much lower pitched voice.
Plus the real Adeline claimed she never went to his home, so all of that was fabricated as well. And if we are to believe Ed himself he never
had sex with corpses, so that whole part of Adeline and him digging up a body so that he can have sex with it since Adeline will be leaving town is utter bullshit.
This should not have been called The Ed Gein Story, lmao. Oh and one scene i find super rich. The woman telling Ed he should tell his story because there have been so many versions, including those who are completely made up.
Murphy, really?
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Beretta
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I kept reading how much inaccuracies or flat out fabricated shit was in this, and during several scènes I sure had that feeling too. Turns out that indeed a lot is just straight up bullshit.
Not just some small stuff either. I don't recall seeing a whole lot of this criticism when season 1 (Dahmer) came out , so I'm gonna assume that a lot of that was accurate.
I just finished the show too. You sure about the voice? Because I read a comparison a while ago and it was very different, the real one had a much lower pitched voice.
Plus the real Adeline claimed she never went to his home, so all of that was fabricated as well. And if we are to believe Ed himself he neverso she was never in on it at all.had sex with corpses, so that whole part of Adeline and him digging up a body so that he can have sex with it since Adeline will be leaving town is utter bullshit.
This should not have been called The Ed Gein Story, lmao. Oh and one scene i find super rich. The woman telling Ed he should tell his story because there have been so many versions, including those who are completely made up.
Murphy, really?
I think it depends what material is looked at when it comes to his voice, there are some that I've heard where he's had a deeper voice and others where he didn't so don't know if there is a reason why. I would think the deeper, soft slow speaking is the tone he used regularly. There is a possibility the material was altered a bit and he sounded a little higher.
Yeah, Adeline material had a lot of shit in it lol though I do honestly think it's odd that she had a relationship with him for two decades (her claim) but never went to his house. Not to say that's not possible, just strange to me.
I think the problem with Ed is though he did some gruesome shit, his story is just difficult to put in to a lengthy show or even a movie about him. His material doesn't match those of Dahmer, Bundy, Gacy etc. I do like that they picked him since we don't see as much about him but his story definitely isn't enough to have a lot of facts in there the way they did it. If they started from childhood and introduced him that way then they'd have more facts to go on and people who don't know him (which was probably a lot of people watching) could at least learn how he ended up all fucked up as an adult. The 60 second childhood scene did nothing, really.
Dahmer and Menendez Brothers were certainly better. Those two stories def had a lot more facts included.
Did you like those ones (if you've watched both)?
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Stafford
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Didn't Adeline in real life later say she didn't have a relationship with him for that long? Hmm not sure anymore, honestly sounds a bit like one moment she says this and the next she says something different. I kept thinking that some of this stuff with her could be in his imagination too.
Her in ep8 saying she wants to get
rid of some people makes you wonder if she really has a lot in common with him or is this all imagination? Because for some reason she didn't looked aged at all.
Or that whole part earlier in the season where she discovered that the
mother was in the chair and she reacts panicky, understandably so. She flees to her house but Ed manages to get in and then she goes all "I know you've been stealing my undergarments for a while." And as a present she put underwear and a bra there for him and all seems well between the two.
This whole part had me like .....wtf? So either that part was just badly made and fabricated, or it was all in his head?
As for season 1 and 2. Oh yes, I very much enjoyed those. Thought Dahmer was done extremely well, dark and haunting. Could almost feel the dread the poor guy must have felt when he was inside his house.
Season 2 as well and to this day I wonder what is actually completely true. Because watching the show had me thinking and feeling a kind of way but then research afterwards had me doubting shit.
I also recently finished Devil in Disguise -John Wayne Gacy and this is very well made and seemed to me quite realistic, grounded and accurate. I recommend that.
Beretta
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Yeah I remember seeing an article where she retracted but I wonder if it was just to distance herself cuz who the fuck wants to be known as the lover of a killer and I imagine there would always be suspicions of how much she knew.
I have 4 episodes of Devil in Disguise left, I've been enjoying it so far. Have you seen the Conversations with a Killer: The John Wayne Gacy tapes on Netflix? One guy who stayed at his house had a really creepy experience.
I have very little serial killer stuff left to watch on Netflix lol, they have so many good ones. I also just finished watching the Aileen Wuornos one they just added (it's an hour and a half documentary), her story is actually sad. If you haven't seen it but end up watching…lmao word of warning about having to look at her snaggletoothed girlfriend.
Stafford
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Is that the woman the movie with Charlize Theron is based on? And wasn't that also called Monster? Yeah, serial killer stuff definitely is very interesting. That reminds me I need to continue with Mind Hunter too.
thegame983
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Such a strange show. Initially I thought it was fucking terrible, but then it began to grow on me and by the end I was pro Ed Gein.
I had no idea there was second season of this show that focussed on the Menendez brothers. Watched it. Thought it was fantastic and much better then the Dahmer & Gein seasons (better by a country mile).
I had no idea there was second season of this show that focussed on the Menendez brothers. Watched it. Thought it was fantastic and much better then the Dahmer & Gein seasons (better by a country mile).
Stafford
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Beretta
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Yes that's right, the documentary I think is called Queen of Serial Killers or something, it just came out on Netflix last week.
Mindhunters is one of the best shows ever, I'm bummed they stopped at two seasons but they are now reportedly working on a movie. The creator wanted to do 5 seasons but then left after season 2 to do some movie no one watched and then was saying it's too expensive to continue doing the show.
LimanimaPT
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I kind of lost interest after he killed he's brother and I googled to check if that happened. Turns out it didn't, it was all made up.
Bojji
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Finished it yesterday, it's kinda all over the place (with movies and other serial killers) but overall I liked it. Last episode is Mindhunter season 3 we never got...
Unlike many other serial killers Ed was genuinely sick (schizofrenia), while they were just psychopaths. I also don't think he was as evil as some of the bastards that were inspired by him.
Unlike many other serial killers Ed was genuinely sick (schizofrenia), while they were just psychopaths. I also don't think he was as evil as some of the bastards that were inspired by him.
Insane Metal
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Yep. He was a very sick person. Maybe he wasn't even evil, just sick and had no idea of the consequences of what he was doing. And no I'm not basing this on the show.
Bojji
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I met few people with schizophrenia and one of them wanted to cut throat of his grandmother using razor (she woke up when the blade was very close). And none of them are evil or bad people (even the one with the nick name "razor"), they just needed proper medical exams and meds (otherwise voices tell them to do random things). If Ed was born later, all this shit could have been avoided.
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Bojji
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Fucking auto correct, hahaha.