Psychosis, lamb silence … he inspired all the greatest bad people in history and we understand why

“The monster that we believe is the exception is the rule. Go to the bottom of history: Nero is plural.” Ryan Murphy is secretly passionate about Victor Hugo’s work? Secret.

It is a fact that we are in the third season of his monster series, which is dedicated to the most famous American killers and this time there is a myth. Because the serial killer Ed Gain, as morally doubtful, seems to be a myth.

Never criminal, except for Mafia Al Capon, Pablo Escobar or a completely different registry, bin Laden has had such an impact on the imagination of the United States. Ed Gain is everywhere in American fiction, and his legacy in cinema history is as spectacular as his crimes are beautiful. But why?

Novel “Psychosis”

After the discovery of his crimes (murders, the actions of barbarism, necrophilic suspicions …), Ed Gain was finally tried in 1957. But its history spread to society as a powder trail.

The first to seize the “character” is Ed Gaine Novelist Robert Bloch. For her novel Psychosis (1959), he will use the history of the killer to create the character of Norman Bates: A reasonable motel manager who turns out to be a transvestite killer and obsessed with his mother, whose corpse he secretly preserves. Does this mention someone?

Inspiration is obvious and the general public is not mistaken. Some Alfred Hitchcock’s attention.

Movies “Psychosis” and “Massacre à La Cha Chavunuse”

Do we still need Alfred Hitchcock’s psychosis? Published in 1960, the film is a curling wave in the office office, which shows a profitability rate by 4000 % compared to the budget! The passion of society is confirmed by the monster, but artists who are inspired by its history are still shy. At the time of censorship, the artwork focuses primarily on Ed Gain’s psychology (and its very pronounced Oedipus complex). But everything will change in 1974.

Hippie’s movement and his desire for freedom and censorship became much more permissible. Neither one nor the two, this is not the director of the Tobe Hooper, who then removes the myth, with his famous chain massacre. No more psychology, make a way for pictures: The big screen features Ed Gain’s wild crimes.

Masks in human skin, human bones as furniture, the action of barbarism for poor students who have fallen into isolated farming: Chainsaw Massacre Movies The Plainfield, as described in newspapers. What do you need to hate for the public? Of course, there was a confrontation, but the film reaches a cult status as soon as it is released, claiming that viewers are demanding more.

But what remains for the movie?

“Lamb Silence” and 2000

The cinema has destroyed Ed Gain’s psychology and his crimes, but one aspect of the character remains as mentioned so far: Travers. This aspect is clearly found in Norman Bates, but Hitchcock does not make it a central theme. Unlike Thomas Harris.

In the film in the novel, Buffalo Bill’s character Lamba during silence is clearly inspired by Ed Gain, who works with his victim’s flesh to make it “works of art”. The character disguises himself (like Gain and Beatles), but he is presented here as a genuine sexual perversion, a central sign of the killer’s predation. The choice that raises questions, but first of all, it is impossible to approach the American Cinema. This is now done: Ed Gain is there, complete.

We are now at the beginning of the 21st century and Ed Gain continues to interpret, re-explain, again and again in several films (for example, Ed Gain in 2001). We quote him in the American psyche in 2000, we find music about his life in 2010 … If he is called “Ed Gain: Music”, it exists and now you know.

Why Ed Gain More than Another?

The rating of the worst serial killers will be far from us, but in terms of barbarism, American criminal history offers Ed Gain serious competitors. Why he? And why does he continue to be fascinated today, until Netflix gives him a series?

Beyond his “visual” side of his crime, the first element of response has a book Ed Gain: Serial killer autopsy By Eric Powell and Harnold Schchter. The theory is as follows:

“Before Ed and Psychosis, the film monsters systematically came, moreover: Transylvania, Germany, England… or space.

In Ed Gain’s case, he is coming out of the deep town. This is a reasonable neighbor who is careful from time to time. At a time when American society has turned its imagination into an external danger (we are in the middle of the Cold War), see the pure American as the worst monsters, literally, unthinkable. It was for the first time and it was a collective trauma.

In some respects, Ed Gain’s case is part of this American period, called “The End of innocence”, in the late 1950s, the population is hostile to the universe that is climbing the Cuban rocket crisis in 1962. And a little, the threats will become monsters, and then we print “their legend” …

Is this historical trauma presented in 2025? You will need to wait until October 3 on Netflix to find out. But anyone who looks at the news is suspected that the American people have a lot to do with expulsion at this time …