"Monster: The Ed Gein Story"

[+ azdr0710]

unless I did a poor search, couldn't find any forum chatter on this......

the latest episode of the "Monsters" series (Dahmer and the Menendez bros were some past ones, Lizzie Borden coming in a few months) is about the Wisconsin guy who (greatly simplifying here) mostly dug up graves, made women's clothes out of the skin, dabbled in cross-dressing.....probably killed a couple locals along the way, too.....overbearing mother and all that......eight episodes about 45 minutes each......Charlie Hunnam stars as Ed.......very mixed reviews, many are negative.....it's a Ryan Murphy flick, so there's that to consider (exaggerated melodrama?)......creepy necrophilia, extreme psychological concerns, and extremely graphic, nearly over-the-top gore.....I'm not offended by any of that, but wonder if the intense blood/sex was intended to make a profound point or be shockingly realistic or what?.......most of the series was, I dunno, cheap? uninspired? simple, contrived?.....I nearly gave up on the series halfway thru, so unoriginal (ironic, I know) was it......only the last half of the last episode or so became reflective and deeper as Ed moved closer to his natural death in a mental hospital at age 77......much is also made of his influence on later serial killers (Speck, Bundy) and on film (Psycho, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Silence of The Lambs)...... much artistic license, of course.....

ohhhh, almost forgot: a couple or so butt shots (stunt butts?) of Hunnam and a full-frontal head-to-toe with privates covered by hands (episode 1 and in the preview below)........

 

     

Edited November 12 by azdr0710

[Rod Hagen]

Too sick for me, I am not going to watch it even though he is and has always been, since Queer as Folk, quite beautiful.

[+ SirBillybob]

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