How this serial killer you’ve never heard of inspired ‘Psycho,’ ‘Texas Chainsaw’ and Season 3 of Ryan Murphy’s hit show ‘Monster’
nypost.comrecently announced that Season 3 of Ryan Murphy’s hit Netflix anthology series, “Monster” — which had popular previous seasons about Jeffrey Dahmer and the Menendez brothers — will be about Gein, starring Charlie Hunnam.
Harold Schechter, a true crime historian and author who wrote the definitive book about Gein, “Deviant: The Shocking True Story of Ed Gein, the Original Psycho,” told The Post that up until Alfred Hitchcock’s “Psycho” came out in 1960, all the horror movie monsters were from “other places – Eastern European monsters like Dracula and Frankenstein or the Wolfman.
Or, monsters from outer space. Or, monsters that arose out of the Japanese seas, like Godzilla.”But, he said, Norman Bates was “the first really all-American monster.” He added, “and it really transformed horror films after that.
So, Gein is kind of a seminal figure in the history of horror” because he inspired “Psycho,” which, in turn, “created the modern slasher movie.” Gein, who lived in Wisconsin, was born in 1906 and was known as The Butcher of Plainfield.
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