Episode 1

Apparently, Its Because of Ed Gein...

Tonight at Night School Horror, class is in session, and the lesson? Never let Netflix do your homework for you. We’re diving headfirst into Monster: The Ed Gein Story, a show so “based on true events”.

The faculty tears into everything from Charlie Hunnam’s Oscar-worthy audition for Creepiest Mama’s Boy Alive to the series’ creative “liberties” (read: lies so bold they deserve their own SAG card). Along the way, we unpack the messy blend of mental illness, media exploitation, and true crime clickbait that somehow turned a grave robber into binge-worthy content.

From Psycho to Texas Chainsaw Massacre, we follow Ed Gein’s nasty fingerprints across horror history, asking the hard questions: why do women always get the short end of the shovel, and how much sensationalism is too much when the truth was already nightmare fuel?

And honestly.... do you believe “Owner of a Lonely Heart” fit that final Titanic/Stairway to "HELL" scene?

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Tommy Terlecki

Born in Brooklyn, NY, Tommy James has made it his life’s mission to watch every movie, good, bad, and aggressively confusing—and judge it accordingly. As Your Favorite Movie Therapist, he dishes out scathing but oddly comforting “prescriptions” to characters who desperately need therapy, all while leaving audiences laughing, cringing, and occasionally questioning their own life choices. When he’s not doling out advice, he’s compiling The List: a catalog of movies, and people so frustratingly awful that, inevitably, your name ends up on it. Armed with encyclopedic film knowledge, sharp wit, and The Smooth Effect, Tommy is the lovable, insufferable cinematic force you didn’t know you needed.