This is a highly fictionalized Netflix version of Ed Gein’s life and crimes. It pictures his fears and fantasies as well as real events, and it also delves into the broader cultural influences that shaped him, and that he shaped in turn. I haven’t watched any other episodes, but this one was as much about Alfred Hitchcock and Tony Perkins as it was about Gein. In this scene, Gein morphs into Norman Bates.
This is a creative interpretation that appears, from the one episode I watched, to be brilliantly executed, but it erases the line between creative license and complete fantasy, so it is bound to be controversial. There are people who study the lives of serial killers as minutely as I study the Black Sox, so they will undoubtedly rant over every tiny inaccuracy and every speculation that fails to conform to their own interpretations of the Gein story. (I confess that I do the same when people bollix the story of the 1919 World Series.)
There are also some uncredited actresses who appear topless in a Nazi fantasy. I didn’t do any captures, but that film clip is in the video link with the Suzanna Son clip.
Suzanna has appeared here several times before, in Red Rocket, in The Idol, and even in some explicit material she did before she got famous.
Damn, shower scenes like these were a horror movie staple but we don’t really see such scenes anymore unless its a cheap B movie so surprised to see one in 2025 Netflix production.
Well, remember the premise. He recreated the shower scene from Psycho.
I think that scene has like 50 or 60 cuts, so it’s a lot of work and a lot to say in film language. Some mix of respect and laziness probably keeps lesser directors from attempting it.
Except that guy from the 1990’s who was hired to do a remake of Psycho, and decided to make it pretty much a word-for-word, shot-for-shot remake. Now I have to look it up to see who they got to play the Janet Leigh role.
[IMDB] It was Anne Heche. I thought she did the Vera Miles roles, but that was Julianne Moore. Vince Vaughn = Anthony Perkins, Bill Macy = the private detective. Directed by Gus Van Sant, 1998. Widely met with the question “Why bother?”
It’s the one where Anne Heche shows her butthole. How can you forget? Lol.
Most of those horror movie staples you are referring to were cheap B movies. So what’s the difference?
The difference is many of the films I am referring to cost millions to make and had wide theatrical releases like “Friday the 13th”. The horror movies you find today that have the “T’n’A” content can be found on Tubi and cost a few thousand dollars to make.
“Friday the 13th” had a budget of about half a million, though to be fair that was 1970s money so in today’s terms that is a couple of millions.
But many horror movies with budget around the 1-2 million range also have nudity in them these days (they don’t get wide theatrical releases but that’s because very few things do these days). Shower scenes, though, seem to have gone out of fashion to some degree.
John Carpenter’s last movie The Ward had a really lame one, shower scene in a girl’s prison but NO NUDITY! New movie Bone Lake same thing, horror slasher but the 2 actresses never show anything, even one masturbating in a tub
Gein went on trial in 1957….Psycho came out in 1960.
Psycho (the book by Bloch) was inspired by Gein. It’s a complete fabrication.
The truth? Gein and his crimes aren’t that interesting. They were shocking for the day. Now? They’d barely be a blip in the 24 hour news cycle. Most of what he did was to corpses he robbed from graves. They call him a serial killer, but he wasn’t. 2 victims. Takes 3 at least to be a serial. He’s “linked” to other victims that don’t match his victimology in any way.
The facts: he was a pathetic guy who was obsessed with his mother and dead bodies, tried to make a woman suit to “become” his mother, and killed two women because grave robbing was too slow. He botched those killings so badly cops were on him almost immediately. Technically, he was a very ineffective spree killer, not a serial at all.
There’s no reason for the movie to exist. If it was even a little accurate, it’d be dull as watching paint dry.
No need to worry since Hollywood hasn’t worried about accuracy in years. They know the shit they want to make up and they try to wrap it up in something real. They exploit real people and real events, but have no intention of trying to be remotely realistic. That’s why Hollywood is a fucking waste of time and brain cells.
Janet Leigh’s stand in from Psycho was actually murdered in real life. They had her confused with Marli Renfro who was her body double and not the stand-in, an important distinction. There’s actually actually nudity in the in Psycho an extreme closeup and blurry shot of Marli’s boobs just before she falls to the floor.
The butt shot infamously recreated by Anne Heche was actually shot but was cut in the original film. So Marli did the full Heche before Anne Heche actually did.
Marli was primarily a nude model but did another film. Francis Ford Coppola’s nudie cutie Tonight for sure. You can watch that in its entirety on YouTube. You can also see more of Marli’s modeling work here.
She was raped and murdered in 1988 by her neighbor/handyman Kenneth Dean Hunt
Thanks for the link, Renfro (any relation to the 90s male kid actor Brad Renfro?) was a real babe, love all those vintage shots – even that shot of her completely nude but her bush airbrushed is hot
In all of those hours of footage The Weeknd shot for “The Idol,” there was probably a decent 30- to 45-minute short film about Susanna Son’s character. Just everything else needed to be trimmed away.
And probably they could have cut that as well, making the world, if only slightly and only for a moment, a better place.
The Idol lol – nobody will remember that Sam Levinson guy’s shows except for the nudity, same with Ryan Murphy
My comment here is off-topic, but I don’t know how else to raise a suggestion for Scoop to cover some ‘nudity’ that I don’t think that he has covered yet (unless I missed it). The latest season of The Morning Show has spiced things up and has some some sexy scenes with the lovely Greta Lee. That said, I am not sure that she is ever actually shown fully nude: the show has some of the most inventive camera angles I have ever seen to make it appear that shots convey nudity, and indeed come oh so close to showing it, without quite getting there (though maybe for a coupe of split seconds they do – I am not sure). Regardless, she is certainly fully undressed, even if ultimately hidden by the angles, and her sex scenes with Desean Terry are super hot.
In the explicit stuff, worst blow job I’ve ever seen. She should have taken lessons from Paris Hilton before going public. That girl can work it.
Hmm, I see we have a pro here in the art of receiving a blowjob lol. Honestly, you can’t judge whether these women are good at it or not just by watching leaked sex tapes or amateur porn.
Sure you can. Weird comment if you’ve actually had a lot of them.