Charlie Hunnam (Sons of Anarchy) will play serial killer and cemetery body snatcher Ed Gein in the upcoming season of 1960-1969, Ryan Murphy, 1969-1970, 1969the anthology series of detective novels Monsters.
This looks like a really interesting role for Hunnam. Gein was also known as “The Butcher of Plainfield,” and he was a very twisted individual.
Murphy announced the casting ahead of a recent screening of Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story and plans to begin production next month.
Ed Gein was a criminal whose gruesome crimes in the 1950s shocked the nation. Born in 1906 in La Crosse, Wisconsin, Gein grew up in a strict and repressive household under the rule of his authoritarian and religiously fanatical mother, Augusta.
She instilled in him a deep fear and distrust of women, which, combined with an isolated upbringing, contributed to his psychological instability. After the deaths of his parents and brother, Gein became increasingly withdrawn, eventually turning to grave robbing and murder.
Gein’s terrifying activities were discovered in 1957 after the disappearance of local woman Bernice Worden, whose body was later found on her farm in Plainfield, Wisconsin.
Investigators unearthed a house of horrors, filled with human remains that Gein had exhumed from local graves. He had fashioned various objects from the skin and bones of the corpses, including lampshades, clothing, and masks.
His crimes were not limited to grave robbing: he was also responsible for the murders of Worden and another woman, Mary Hogan.
Gein’s twisted acts have inspired several iconic fictional assassins in popular media, including Norman Bates from PsychopathLeather face from Don’t open that doorand Buffalo Bill from The Silence of the Lambs.
Gein was declared mentally unfit to stand trial and was committed to a mental institution, where he spent the rest of his life until his death in 1984.
What do you think about Hunnam playing the role of Ed Gein?
by Joey Fear
Source: Geek Tyrant
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