In the final moments of “Monster: The Ed Gein Story,” a nurse (played by Karly Rothenberg) turns to the killer who only has a few months to live and tells him he should set the record straight about his life. Ed Gein was a man who inspired three of the most influential horror movies of all time — “Psycho,” “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre” and “The Silence of the Lambs” — as well as serial killers like Richard Speck, Ed Kemper and Ted Bundy. It happens again with Tobe Hooper’s (Will Brill) “The Texas Chain Saw Massacre,” portraying the intentionally grotesque slasher as a mirror to the brutality of the Nixon administration and the Vietnam War.
Author: Kayla Cobb
Published at: 2025-10-04 21:00:00
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