53 min · Oct 3, 2025
Mother!
On a remote Wisconsin farm, troubled loner Ed Gein's twisted bond with his domineering mother triggers a terrifying descent into madness.
Monster: The Ed Gein Story · Season 1
Serial killer. Grave robber. Psycho. In the frozen fields of 1950s rural Wisconsin, a friendly, mild-mannered recluse named Eddie Gein lived quietly on a decaying farm - hiding a house of horrors so gruesome it would redefine the American nightmare. Driven by isolation, psychosis, and an all-consuming obsession with his mother, Gein's perverse crimes birthed a new kind of monster that would haunt Hollywood for decades. From Psycho to The Texas Chainsaw Massacre to The Silence of the Lambs, Gein's macabre legacy gave birth to fictional monsters born in his image and ignited a cultural obsession with the criminally deviant. Ed Gein didn't just influence a genre -- he became the blueprint for modern horror.
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59 min · Oct 3, 2025
Tormented by horrific visions, Ed turns his fixation with death into a grisly hobby. Years later, fiction and reality collide on a Hollywood film set.
