Pop culture is full of psychopaths. Countless stories have featured (sometimes) real, (often) fictional, (mostly) men or (the occasional) women who do the unthinkable to their victims… and we eat it up.
The third installment of Ryan Murphy’s Monster series, now out on Netflix, Monster: The Ed Gein Story, is a biopic (with some creative license) of the O.G. American psychotic murderer Ed Gein, who shocked the nation with his murders and mutilations in the 1950’s and early 1960’s and inspired many a gruesome character in cinema for decades to come.
Eventually, he was adjudicated not guilty by reason of insanity and lived out most of his adult life in a forensic psychiatric hospital, unlike the fictional serial killers inspired by his gruesome story.
Listen in as we discuss the more clinical and psychological aspects of psychopathy, and shed a little light on what’s some pretty dark stuff.
Additional Links:
Beyond Monster: 6 Grisly Films Inspired by Serial Killer Ed Gein
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