Osgood Perkins calls out Monster: The Ed Gein Story for wrongful depiction of his father

Ryan Murphy's Monster: The Ed Gein Story is being called out as one of the many horror films that glamorize real-life pain for some commercial gain by Osgood Perkins. Osgood Perkins is the late Anthony Perkins's son and has made these controversial statements about the third installment of the Ryan Murphy anthology series.

Keep reading to find out how the Keeper director, Osgood Perkins, is related to the anthology series and why he's calling the Netflix true-crime series out for its latest season.

Late Anthony Perkins' son calls out the Ryan Murphy Monster: The Ed Gein Story

Ryan Murphy sought to explore the well-known serial killer and body snatcher Ed Gein's story in the latest season of Monster: The Ed Gein Story, starring Charlie Hunnam. Murphy's quest to answer the question, "Are monsters born or made?", leads him to delve deep into Gein's psychology. He even draws a parallel between several famous fictional killers in the Hollywood genre that have been inspired by Gein.

From Psycho to The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and The Silence of the Lambs, several of the most prominent films in the horror genre have been directly or indirectly inspired by Gein's life. Drawing this parallel, Monster: The Ed Gein Story finds a portrayal of the prominent filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock casting the actor Anthony Perkins (played by Joey Pollari) in his film Psycho.

Joey Pollari's portrayal of Anthony Perkins in Monster: The Ed Gein Story finds Perkins as a closeted gay man whose secret (his sexuality) had turned him into a monster, making him the perfect actor to play a Gein-inspired killer in Psycho. Anthony Perkins' sexuality was an open secret in Hollywood, but the parallel between Gein and Perkins, as drawn by Monster's Hitchcock, is being criticized as tasteless.

The late Anthony Perkins' son, Osgood Perkins, in a recent conversation with TMZ, expressed similar criticisms when asked about his opinion of the latest Ryan Murphy series. Perkins commented that he was not interested in watching the show and would not "watch it with a 10-foot pole".

"Increasingly devoid of context and that the Netflix-ization of real pain [ie the authentic human experiences wrought by ‘actual events’] is playing for the wrong team."

Oswood then went on to comment that streamers such as Netflix have huge commercial gain from upselling true crime drama, by turning it into glamorous and meaningful content. He goes on to add that these streamers and creators are turning real human pain that has been brought about by actual events into a Netflixified version of it and reshaping culture in real time "for the wrong team."

Even Harold Schechter, the author of the Ed Gein book Deviant, found the anthology series to be "made up" for a very large percentage and "veers so wildly from the reality of the case" in a recent conversation with the New York Post.

As Murphy's Monster: The Ed Gein Story continues to rake in commercial success, criticisms against his show by the people depicted in it continue to rise (similar to the criticisms in the first two seasons of the anthology series).

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