LINK: monster: the ed gein story
As many of you know, I’m a huge fan of true crime docs. I was genuinely curious about Netflix’s new series on Ed Gein—mostly cause he’s such a prolific figure in criminal history and Netflix did a solid with Dahmer and The Menendez Brothers.
But if we’re gonna keep it 100, I didn’t like it. Not because it was overly sexual or gory, I can handle that no problem. It felt like the director and producers were doing too much to make it into an art piece… like it was an art film that forgot it was supposed to tell the story. Maybe I’m just not at that level of cinematic appreciation to fully enjoy this.
What really irked me were the inaccuracies. I get that sometimes creative liberties are necessary, but claiming that Gein helped catch Ted Bundy? That’s fake news. Did he communicate with other notorious serial killers from the mental institution? No, more fake news. And from what I’ve read about his girlfriend, they weren’t even that serious and most of it was straight-up fabrication. It made me wonder if they just ran out of real material and decided to fill in the blanks with fiction?
The ending was over the top. It was Gein hallucinating, blurring the line between madness and reality but it just didn’t hit right. The series had potential but I felt like it fell flat.
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