{"id":1563,"date":"2025-10-08T16:22:56","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T15:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thetab.com\/?p=528149"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","slug":"what-monster-the-ed-gein-story-actually-got-right-about-alfred-hitchcocks-voyeurism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetab.com\/filmshrine\/2025\/10\/08\/what-monster-the-ed-gein-story-actually-got-right-about-alfred-hitchcocks-voyeurism\/","title":{"rendered":"What Monster: The Ed Gein Story actually got right about Alfred Hitchcock’s voyeurism"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the most surprising parts of Monster: The Ed Gein Story on Netflix was the fact this series wasn’t just showing Gein’s crimes as they unfolded – but flicking to the age in cinema where films were being produced directly inspired by what he did. Most notably, Alfred Hitchcock and his seminal work Psycho. The creation and controversy of Psycho is almost as important a part of The Ed Gein Story as what Ed Gein himself did – and a lot of focus is on Alfred Hitchcock and his approach to the source material. The show also shows Alfred Hitchcock as a peeping Tom, perving on stars of his film through a hole in the wall. But is this true? Here’s what The Ed Gein Story<\/a> actually got right about Alfred Hitchcock and the allegations against him and his voyeurism.<\/p>\n

Did Hitchcock perv like shown?\u00a0<\/strong><\/h4>\n

There’s no evidence of the photo frame moment happening like its shown in The Ed Gein Story, but multiple stars have spoken out about Alfred Hitchcock and accused him of controlling behaviour, abuse and voyeurism when working on movies with him.<\/p>\n

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Tippi Hedren, the star of Alfred Hitchcock films The Birds and Marnie, has spoken most candidly about Hitchcock\u2019s behaviour. She described his obsession with her as \u201csexual, perverse and ugly,\u201d recalling that he attempted to control every aspect of her life during filming. \u201cIt was sexual, it was perverse, and it was ugly, and I couldn\u2019t have been more shocked or repulsed,\u201d she told Vanity Fair. When she rejected his advances, he retaliated by stifling her career.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe told me, \u2018If I leave, I\u2019ll ruin your career.\u2019 And he did,\u201d Hedren said in an interview with The Telegraph. Bound by a restrictive contract, Hedren was paid $600 a week for two years while Hitchcock refused to let her work for other directors. \u201cTo be the object of someone\u2019s obsession is horrible,\u201d she reflected. \u201cIt was a form of stalking. \u2026 He had me under contract and for two years paid me $600 a week while refusing requests by other studios and directors to let me work for them.\u201d<\/p>\n

The actress later likened her experience to being trapped in \u201ca mental prison,\u201d adding that although Hitchcock \u201ctried\u201d to destroy her, \u201che didn\u2019t ruin [her] life.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kim Novak, who starred in Hitchcock’s Vertigo, experienced a subtler but no less troubling version of that same control. She described how Hitchcock dictated her every move, from the way she stood to how she spoke, stripping her of autonomy in the name of precision. \u201cHe was very exact in telling me exactly what to do. How to move, where to stand,\u201d Novak told Roger Ebert. \u201cI think you can see a little of me resisting that in some of the shots, kind of insisting on my own identity.\u201d In a later interview with The Guardian, she reflected on the broader pressures of Hollywood at the time: \u201cIn Hollywood, they think they want you, but really they want what they want you to be.\u201d<\/p>\n

On his voyeuristic ways and voyeurism itself, Alfred Hitchcock was self aware. He once said \u201cThe audience is a voyeur. We are all voyeurs. I feel that the public, myself included, are voyeurs. We\u2019re all peeping Toms to some extent.\u201d<\/p>\n

For all the latest\u00a0Netflix\u00a0news and drops,\u00a0like The Holy Church of Netflix on Facebook.\u00a0<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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