In November 16, 1957, when Wisconsin farmer Edward Theodore Gein was arrested at his family home, a human heart was cooking on the stove, and out in the barn its owner’s headless body had been hung upside down, gutted like a deer. Hollowed-out skulls, a female skin suit, and other more disagreeably fleshy body parts — souvenirs of late-night grave-robbing — lay in wait for unwitting police officers, one of whom was the son of the victim.
The legend of Ed Gein continues to fascinate as much as it repulses, and Ian Brennan’s eight-part mini-series Monster: The Ed Gein Story — his first entry without series co-creator Ryan Murphy — addresses this madman’s disturbing legacy head on. Brennan reflects on the legacy of the mild-mannered maniac, the killer next door, who literally changed the face of horror.
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