TikTok’s warning people not to watch The Ed Gein Story’s ‘bathroom scene’ – here’s why

It wouldn’t be a Ryan Murphy season of Monster if he didn’t fill The Ed Gein Story with moments that made literally everyone want to switch their tellies off. Covering a killer who did as despicable things as Ed Gein did was obviously going to come with some very nasty content – but there is one scene that TikTok is warning people to prepare for or not watch or look up at all. It’s a scene that comes quite late on in the show and if you want to avoid watching it but still want to know what happens, here’s why TikTok is telling people not to watch the bathroom scene from The Ed Gein Story on Netflix.

What is the ‘bathroom scene’?

@jackiethrifts1 Can anyone else relate to the bathroom scene in Monster: The Ed Gein Story?! Was trying to eat my dinner as well!! Amazing series, Charlie Hunnam deserves and Oscar or some amazing award for his portrayal #netflix #edgein #bathroomscene #monster #fyp ♬ original sound – jackiethrifts1

Videos are going viral on TikTok of people warning off viewers from the bathroom scene in The Ed Gein Story. This is because the scene is incredibly gory and truly quite horrific – more explicitly violent than some of the other scenes in the series. It all goes down in episode seven, but not everything in the bathroom scene is what it seems.

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In this scene, we basically see Ed Gein brutally murder the nurse at the hospital with a chainsaw whilst she’s on the toilet in the bathroom. It’s extremely bloody and gory – but not actually real. It’s all just revealed to be a schizophrenic episode and Ed didn’t actually do it.

It’s a fictionalised part of the story too – Ed Gein never killed or attacked a nurse in hospital.

The chainsaw is a reference to a horror film Gein inspired

The horrific crimes and acts of Ed Gein inspired the horror film The Texas Chain Saw Massacre – one of the scariest films ever made and one of the most controversial of the 1970s. That film still traumatises me with how gritty and realistic the gore feels and the deep sense of unease. The farm house and Leatherface himself were inspired by the crimes of Ed Gein – and Monster putting in the little nod to it in the story was in full effect during the bathroom scene.