Now that more reviews have come in, the Rotten Tomatoes score of Ed Gein has sunk more than 20%, and now stands at just a 23% critic score. That’s below the previous two Monster entries, and also Netflix’s True Crime serial killer series, Conversations with a Killer. Here’s how the list breaks down:

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Following Gein's arrest for the murder of Bernice Worden, a woman named Adeline Watkins stepped forward to say she and Gein were an item, though she later retracted that statement. On the series, Watkins is played by actress Suzanna Son and depicted as a close confidant of Gein's and someone who joined him on grave-robbing expeditions.

Charlie Hunnam ’s performance as notorious killer Ed Gein has been the talk of the town ever since Monster: The Ed Gein Story premiered on Netflix in October 2025. Hunnam’s eerie morph into Gein has fans wondering whether or not he mimicked Gein’s real voice in the series.

The Ed Gein Story' imagines Gein as the template for serial killers, but did he correspond with another infamous mass murderer?

The Netflix anthology's co-creator Ian Brennan refutes that the series glamorizes the murders: "I don't think this season is sensational at all. I think it's sensationally good," he told THR.

Ed Gein's car, which he used to move the bodies of his victims, was auctioned for $760 in 1958 after his arrest. The owner toured the car around the Midwest, calling the attraction "Ed Gein Ghoul Car.