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re: Monster: The Ed Gein Story - Official Discussion thread

Posted on 10/5/25 at 10:31 pm to
Posted by VolunGator
Franklin, TN / Key West, FL
Member since Jan 2020
1399 posts
Posted on 10/5/25 at 10:31 pm to
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I can’t get over his voice and the way he speaks. Hell of an actor.


He sounds exactly like high school Hairy from Dumb and Dumberer.
Posted by lsufan9193969700
Madisonville
Member since Sep 2003
55851 posts
Posted on 10/6/25 at 7:01 am to
quote:

He sounds exactly like high school Hairy from Dumb and Dumberer.


He looks like 25-ish year old Les Miles.
Posted by FLBooGoTigs1
Nocatee, FL.
Member since Jan 2008
58688 posts
Posted on 10/6/25 at 7:45 am to
Cut it off before Episode 3 ended the picnic in the graveyard did me in. I tried
Posted by iwyLSUiwy
I'm your huckleberry
Member since Apr 2008
40815 posts
Posted on 10/6/25 at 8:58 am to
I stopped after episode 5 or 6. Just way too dumb for me. I really wanted to like it so I pushed through all the made up BS but it just became that's all the entire show is.

Might eventually finish it but just got tired of rolling my eyes at every scene.
Posted by Fewer Kilometers
Baton Rouge
Member since Dec 2007
37933 posts
Posted on 10/6/25 at 9:01 am to
My wife did me the favor of watching it without me. She then showed me the worst parts to bolster her case (hiring actors to look like Holt McCallany and Jonathan Groff from Mindhunters, stealing shot for shot homages from Silence of the Lambs and other films). Glad that I didn't invest the time in it.
Posted by cinemaguy23
Member since Apr 2025
319 posts
Posted on 10/6/25 at 9:57 am to
Ok yeah I enjoyed the first few episodes but it fell off. The finale was egregious, just spitting in the face of the Mindhunters team, trying to make it seem that he helped catch Ted Bundy (unless Ed was that delusional IRL). Also lol at him comparing Hitchcock to Gein for both being peepers. Such a shame they give a degenerate like Ryan Murphy money to keep making garbage like this.
Posted by tigerbru17
Billy in 4C
Member since Jan 2009
10208 posts
Posted on 10/6/25 at 10:41 am to
This was a Hollywood sickos wet dream to make. Disturbing in all the wrong ways. Not worth the watch.
Posted by Chucktown_Badger
The banks of the Ashley River
Member since May 2013
35876 posts
Posted on 10/6/25 at 10:43 am to
Wisconsin is kind of legendary when it comes to serial killers.
Posted by Hoodie
Donaldsonville, LA
Member since Dec 2019
3608 posts
Posted on 10/6/25 at 12:26 pm to
I'm struggling with the lead actor's resemblance to John Cena.
Posted by tigerfan84
Member since Dec 2003
26028 posts
Posted on 10/6/25 at 8:43 pm to
I’m watching the documentary. I thought this first edition cover was interesting

Posted by Bama Bird
Pittsburgh, PA
Member since Mar 2013
22703 posts
Posted on 10/6/25 at 9:00 pm to
I stand by my general assessment, but stop after Episode 4. If you keep watching, absolutely stop after episode 6.
Posted by go ta hell ole miss
Member since Jan 2007
14568 posts
Posted on 10/6/25 at 10:25 pm to
Made it through 1.5 episodes. Came here to see if it gets better. Clearly it doesn’t. I loved the first two Monsters, but this one is not good. Weird and jumps all over the place. Apparently it gets worse, so I’ll find something else.

Thanks to everyone for their reviews/opinions,
Posted by This GUN for HIRE
Member since May 2022
5611 posts
Posted on 10/6/25 at 11:36 pm to
It sucks. About like Ryan Murphy
Posted by kjntgr
Baton Rouge
Member since Jan 2004
8840 posts
Posted on 10/7/25 at 2:27 am to
The Hitchcock side plot is terrible
Posted by hsfolk
Member since Sep 2009
19184 posts
Posted on 10/7/25 at 9:17 am to
this shite looks too twisted for me to get any interest out of
Posted by iwyLSUiwy
I'm your huckleberry
Member since Apr 2008
40815 posts
Posted on 10/7/25 at 12:27 pm to
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The Hitchcock side plot is terrible


As bad as pretty much everything was, just complete made up stuff throughout, this was probably the worst part for me.

Not even considering how awful the actor was and how dumb he looked with the prosthetics, the story was just ridiculous.

Hitchcock by all accounts had his forgettable moments. he pushed himself on Tippi Hedron trying to kiss her. She later in life said she loved Hitchcock and had forgiven him for that. But in the show he makes out Hitchcock to be a creep like Ed Gein spying on women in their dressing room. He has Hitchcock tell Anthony Perkins that he is like Ed Gein mentally simply because he was bisexual. Hitchcock did not write Psycho, Robert Bloch did. But it's somehow Hitchcock that resembled Ed Gein and also makes Anthony Perkins resemble Ed Gein, two guys that were not influenced by Ed Gein in real life. Like wtf are e doing here other than to make Hitchcock look like an awful person? Dude is 100x times the talent Murphy will ever be. Literally smearing a director that paved the way in a genre that Murphy is in. Seemed like if anything, you'd pay homage to him, not try and smear his legacy.
Posted by markthetiger
alexandria
Member since Aug 2005
1286 posts
Posted on 10/7/25 at 3:30 pm to
Quit watching, made it all the way to episode 6. The sex with the corpse is what finally pushed me over the edge. Saw so many things made up and liberties taken, but said what the heck, I will keep going and tried to finish it. I know in real life, he finally got caught and was arrested for killing the hardware store clerk, about 9 years after he killed his brother. It showed him killing the store clerk in the episode and then dragging her out during the daylight, not getting caught and nobody seeing him. Then he starts digging up corpses and having sex with them. Over the top and not even following a semblance of actual facts... Two hunters stumble on to his barn and he chases them down with a chain saw. Where are their damn rifles? They run to the woods without shooting him and then get chased down by a dude carrying a chain saw... stupid
This post was edited on 10/8/25 at 9:55 am
Posted by lsufan0229
Baton Rouge
Member since Jun 2021
33 posts
Posted on 10/7/25 at 3:38 pm to
To go from watching him in Sons of Anarchy to this is wild. He is a talented actor.
Posted by Gorilla Ball
Az
Member since Feb 2006
12861 posts
Posted on 10/7/25 at 9:54 pm to
I walked in the room while my wife was watching it
And he was humping the corpse.
I said wtf are you watching
Posted by Bayouboogaloocrew
Dixie
Member since Jul 2013
5206 posts
Posted on 10/7/25 at 10:00 pm to
I watched the first 2 episodes today and just can’t see me going back to it. It’s just not good
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