Monster:The Ed Gein Story (2025)

The Ed Gein story is the latest in Netflix 'Monster' series based on true life serial killers, the last outing being the story of the Ramierez brothers. Charlie Hunnam is excellent as the lead, the series comprises 8 episodes and the first half dozen are 'entertaining' though obviously very shocking considering the levels of depravity Gein commits, the tone of the series is set by the final scene of episode one when he stands over his dead Mother to commit the most awful act imaginable. The trouble is once he's incarcerated in the seventh episode the whole series runs out of steam, too many 'dream' sequences and how he apparently helped the FBI to catch Ted Bundy (which is just  pure fiction) the whole show just fizzles out sadly, and could have been trimmed down easily to just the six episodes.

3.5/5