Monster: The Ed Gein Story

Monster: The Ed Gein Story Review: Strong Start, Sloppy Finish

In its third iteration, Ryan Murphy’s Monster anthology series retreats from the visceral horror of its predecessors and instead offers a brooding, meandering elegy on legacy with The Ed Gein Story. It arrives cloaked in shadow, not as a blistering indictment of a killer’s depravity, but as a morbid meditation on the cultural ripples he left behind. The result is an ambitious, though often errant, narrative that stares so long into the abyss, it forgets what it came to see. Charlie Hunnam, in perhaps the most chillingly con | Click Here...