Ed Gein: a worthy horror movie.

I just watched this movie on IFC. Wow. One of the most disturbing horror movies I have ever watched....and yet blood and gore are kept to a minimum, accentuating the story where its needed but not overwhelming it just for shock value. All those modern "horror" film directors (aka shock and awe blood and gore with no real story; eli roth types that should never be allowed to stain the good name of horror films ever again)

The story of Ed Gein is completely true, which makes it all the more disturbing....but you kind of got the feel that the director pulled an all-nighter Hitchcock marathon before getting behind the camera. Bravo.

And the casting was dead on. (though for a while, I thought it was Tommy Lee Jones playing Gein)


And let me tell you....I've watched all of the Texas Chainsaw knockoffs and Hannibal films time and again without flinching.

But to see the guy dressed in a woman suit while banging pots and pans and screaming at the moon.... that one creeped me the hell out.

 

Is that the guy back in the old days that ate kids?
Didn't he send a letter to one of his victims parents?

 

They made a movie about him? I knew that they based the Texas Chainsaw Massacre off him but I wasn't aware of this. I shall go check it out.
As much as I love blood and gore there can be too much of it and too little story in a horror film.

 

No. That was Albert Fish.

Ed Gein was the paranoid schizophrenic that dug up corpses and did things to them; sewed ladie's skin into a suit (later adapted as Buffalo Bill in Silence of the Lambs), shrunk heads, made belts out of nipples, necklaces out of teeth, and soup bowls out of the tops of human skulls.

He was also a noted cannibal and necrophile.

You might find it under its alternate title "By The Light of the Moon"

 

Ah yes! That's right.
I can't believe I didn't remember that....

 

My personal favorite item that Ed Gein ever crafted was a shade pull from a pair of lips. For some reason that just seems funny to me.

 

I think he made a body suit out of his mother's skin.

 

Didn't he keep a box of dried vaginas?



I've heard of this film and I believe that I shall look into it.

 

Whoa....Say Ed, that's some interesting jerky you've got there.

 

Tastes like beef, smells like fish.

 

Besides Silence Of The Lambs and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre being based off of Ed Gein, Psycho was as well.

Two of the most disturbing things the real Ed Gein did that I read about was that he hung one of his victims up like hunters do with deer, and that he used skulls as bowls.

Jotun Denal: He was obsessed with his mother, but never made anything out of her skin or other body parts.