Psycho: The Lost Tapes of Ed Gein

I was really looking forward to this mini series but am kind of disappointed. Actually hearing the bits of recordings of Ed answering questions was really the only parts of this worth watching. The first episode basically goes over everything and gives very few clips of his actual voice and you can hardly hear his voice but somehow you can hear the detective clearly. The second and third episodes were just like the first but with a few more audio clips. They have chopped the tapes and you'll hear one response and then in the next episode you'll find out it was actually the response to a different question and you don't really know if the answers they put up are from that actual conversation and I do not know why they would have mixed the recordings up like that. False accusations mentioned such as a perversion with his mother and a heart on the stove. I did not care for the podcast group they had as speakers. They were unnecessarily vulgar and making jokes, laughing and being disrespectful, childish and very inappropriate in their comments. Very few speakers with actual credibility, and half of them almost seemed to have a fascination with Ed Gein himself rather than the psychology behind his behavior. I felt like this could have been one film. Very repetitive and would have been better with less random discussion by irrelevant people and more of the true consistent recordings and actual photos or video recordings. Full of peoples different interpretations of who Gein was, disappointed.

I wanted to like it and some parts were good but there's to much Speculations from bloggers and podcasters that say what they think happened without any prof that happened and it's been over 50 years so i assume that if it had merit it would be facts by now cause this is the most researched serial killer in history. It's hard to take it serious when the "experts" are 3 podcasters or someone that found about about Ed by mistake and than wrote a book. But if you can ignore that i would still recommend it because of the new tapes.and fotagedes it adds to the story that hasn't been known previously.

There is some interesting information - but is it enough, and compelling enough to put up with the annoying older pontificating gentlemen and their monotone lazy tongue speak? Nope. I made it thru almost two episodes before I just could no longer take it. And then they intermittently throw in a couple of younger bloggers and commentors, who try to dredge up excitement for this "fantastic find ", but fall exceptionally short and then they look exactly as they are - a little too happy to be included in this pile of nonsense with no substance to add to the conversation. Not really worth watching.

Just finished Psych: Ed Gein's Lost Tapes, and I feel like I need a refund on my time. This four-part monstrosity could've easily been condensed into a single episode, but instead, they decided to drag it out like a toddler refusing to leave a playground. Each episode is an agonizingly slow, repetitive mess that offers absolutely no new insights or value to anyone even mildly familiar with Ed Gein.

Let's start with the crime scene photos-because, trust me, the show won't let you forget them. They ran the same three or four photos on loop so many times it felt like a bad PowerPoint presentation. I'm convinced they ran out of pictures halfway through production, panicked, and just said, "Let's show them again. They won't notice." Spoiler alert: I noticed.

Then we get to the "experts" and commentators, who are somehow even worse than the editing. They brought in three podcasters who contribute absolutely nothing. Nothing! These people just sit there cracking dumb, immature jokes over a serious topic, like they're recording an edgy middle-school podcast. It's borderline disrespectful, and every time they opened their mouths, I could feel my brain cells dying.

As for the so-called "professionals," they must've found them at the last minute because most of them were completely unqualified. Maybe three people were actually worth listening to-they knew Ed Gein personally and had some genuine insight. The rest were a mix of weirdos who seemed more like Gein fanboys than experts. Instead of explaining his psychology, they spent their screen time either fangirling or making excuses for him like they were trying to write his Tinder bio.

The audio recordings, which are supposed to be the big selling point of this whole thing, are a mixed bag. Yes, it's creepy and interesting to hear Ed Gein's voice, but the recordings are hard to hear, and I'm 90% sure they botched the closed captions. And if that wasn't bad enough, they kept replaying the same clips while mixing up the audio, so it sounded like he was answering completely different questions. It's like they were trying to gaslight the audience into thinking it was new content.

Final verdict: This show is a disaster. If you're morbidly curious about Ed Gein's voice, you can maybe justify watching it, but even then, you're better off finding the audio somewhere else. Between the repeated footage, terrible commentators, questionable "experts," and botched audio, it's a total waste of time. 3/10, and that's being generous. Go watch a YouTube video or read Wikipedia instead.

This is yet another so called "documentary" that relies on over-the-top dramatization to present a topic that would be so much more interesting if the filmmakers respected their audience. Notice all of the sinister background music. Why not just call it a horror film? Not to mention there is misinformation, and certain common rumors are presented as though they were true. One example is with the alleged occurrence of a human heart being found on Gein's stove in a frying pan. This is simply not true. The heart was found in a plastic bag on the floor near the stove. When Gein speaks you can barely hear his voice and these moments in the show are few and far between. Rather than forking out money for MGM+ go on YouTube and find a real Ed Gein Interview for free.