Er, how true are the Alfred Hitchcock scenes in Netflix’s Monster: The Ed Gein story?

Netflix viewers might be a bit surprised that a sizeable chunk of Monster: The Ed Gein story doesn’t follow Ed Gein, but the film director Alfred Hitchcock. Here’s a look at how much of this plot line is really based on a true story.

The film set scene just doesn’t make sense

Yes, the story of Ed Gein really did inspire Alfred Hitchcock’s film Psycho. But many of the scenes in Monster about this are a bit of a stretch. In Monster, Alfred Hitchcock meets up with Anthony Perkins (the actor who plays Norman Bates in Psycho, who is played by Joey Pollari in Monster. You still with me?). He gives Anthony a tour of the film set for Psycho, which in the show is a creepily accurate recreation of Ed Gein’s house.

Ryan Murphy’s version of Alfred Hitchcock and Anthony Perkins
(Image via Netflix)

The thing is, Psycho isn’t set in a farm, or even a house. The villain Norman Bates runs a motel. So, there’s not really much truth to this whole scene.

Hitchcock’s wife actually helped make Psycho

Erm, we’ll just move on from the weirdness of Hitchcock calling his wife “mother”. In Monster, Hitchcock’s wife Alma is fairly horrified by Hitchcock’s new obsession with Ed Gein. In real life, Alma actually helped make Psycho. She spent plenty of time on the set, and helped edit the film. She can’t have been too disturbed by the project then.

Alma Reville in Monster season three
(Image via Netflix)

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Alfred Hitchcock’s film isn’t quite as gory as it is in Monster

Monster recreates the famous shower scene from Psycho. Cinemagoers are screaming, crying and throwing up (literally). You can rewatch Psycho for yourself, and see that the real film isn’t anywhere near as graphic as Ryan Murphy’s fanfic of it. We never even see the knife come into contact with skin in Psycho. The scariness is built up in a different way.

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