{"id":1169,"date":"2025-10-18T15:56:41","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T21:56:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/2025\/10\/18\/monster-the-ed-gein-story-dont-throw-the-corpse-out-with-the-formaldehyde\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T15:56:41","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T21:56:41","slug":"monster-the-ed-gein-story-dont-throw-the-corpse-out-with-the-formaldehyde","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/2025\/10\/18\/monster-the-ed-gein-story-dont-throw-the-corpse-out-with-the-formaldehyde\/","title":{"rendered":"Monster: The Ed Gein Story – Don\u2019t Throw the corpse out with the formaldehyde"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The no spoiler part. Keep reading until you get to the part that warns of spoilers. You are safe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As with most really cool TV shows and movies, I\u2019m a latecomer to this block party. I started seeing all the memes appear and had to go deep undercover to figure out what they mean and where they came from.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Ed Gein Story is no different. As I write this particular paragraph of this post, I have one more episode to watch. I won\u2019t publish this until after I\u2019ve completed the story. And that is what it is, really. A story. It is not a documentary. Nowhere does it say this shit really happened. If you want facts, go check out the Wikipedia page on Ed Gein<\/a>. But if you want a good horror story that\u2019s loosely based on some things some guy did, and will probably be the most demented shit you\u2019ll ever see (assuming you\u2019ve never watched a snuff film, because damn – nothing would be more demented than that), go check it out. You won\u2019t be sorry. Currently on Netflix.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Spoiler alert!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Warning, beyond here, there be spoilers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you don\u2019t plan on watching it, please continue on. If you plan on watching it, go watch it first then continue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Still with me? Or back with me?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cool.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I knew Psycho was based on a true story. I knew the Texas Chainsaw Massacre was based on a true story. I knew Silence of the Lamb – yup, inspired by a true story. What I didn\u2019t know was they were all based on the same person. Or the fact that the person\u2019s name was Ed Gein.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This show does a wonderful job of bringing all 4 events into perspective with each other, while providing you with the necessary elements to keep you on the hook and engaged with the story. And by story I mean fiction. Yes they ad-libbed. They expounded. They filled in the blanks with something only the gods will ever really know. They took what was in real life a totally sick fuck and his unmentionable deeds and breathed the life of a horror story into it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The show\u2019s producers really could have ended the series with episode 7. Episode 8 was really out there. In my opinion, the only meaningful part of the plot in episode 8 is Gein\u2019s death. Yes he died in the mental hospital from complications of lung cancer, but that really could have been incorporated into Episode 7 and then called it a wrap. He did not assist with any other investigations or help the police catch any other serial killer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All in all, I thought it was a great watch, if you\u2019re into that type of horror show. I think that anyone who doesn\u2019t watch it because it\u2019s not true is simply missing out on a good story that they would have otherwise loved. Their loss, I guess.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you\u2019re considering not watching Monster: The Ed Gein Story because it\u2019s not true, don\u2019t throw the baby out with the bathwater. Or should I say, don\u2019t throw the corpse out with eh formaldehyde? My review on my corner. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1168,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[26],"tags":[621,620,492,161],"class_list":["post-1169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tv","tag-ed-gein","tag-monster","tag-netflix","tag-review"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/img_3055.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}