With Ryan Murphy’s Monster: The Ed Gein Story out, this week’s episode of What Have I Missed? looks back - not at Gein himself, but at how his crimes changed cinema forever.

Three films. Three new languages of fear.

Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho — the birth of the slasher and the moment horror learned to hide in plain sight.
Tobe Hooper’s The Texas Chain Saw Massacre — the rise of the final girl, shot in feral heat and chaos.
Jonathan Demme’s The Silence of the Lambs — the film that made female applications to the FBI soar and laid the blueprint for every criminal procedural since.

A study in shock, survival and psychology - tracing how one man’s brutality became the dark mirror of modern horror.

Let's get into it.

Welcome back to What Have I Missed?

I’m Alex. Each week I catch up on three things I should have seen by now – pulling apart what still resonates, what catches me off guard and why they matter in 2025.

This week: flamboyant farce in The Birdcage, extraterrestrial survival in Alien: Earth and the return of the Man of Steel in Superman.

Let’s get into it.

Welcome back to What Have I Missed?

I’m Alexandra Hepworth, and each week I catch up on three things I should have seen by now - pulling apart what still resonates, what catches me off guard and why they matter in 2025.

This week: political paranoia in All the President’s Men, true-crime obsession with The Jinx and Ethan Hunt’s last impossible mission in Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning.

Let’s get into it.