Netflix’s Monster series is one of the streamer’s most popular shows. It began with a dramatisation depicting the life and disturbing acts of serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, and continued with a season about Lyle and Erik Menendez. The latest entry focuses on Ed Gein, one of the most notable killers in American history.

If you hadn’t heard of Ed Gein before watching the new season of Netflix’s Monster series, you will most likely have unknowingly stumbled across works inspired by his life and despicable acts. Gein’s bloody and immensely disturbing legacy, which includes murder and body snatching, has inspired some of the most famous works of fiction, such as Jonathan Demme’s The Silence of the Lambs , Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho, and Tobe Hooper’s The Texas Chainsaw Massacre .

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