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Jul 20, 2001 · A film about the true story of Ed Gein, the farmer who inspired Psycho and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Steve Railsback stars as Gein, who dug up corpses, made masks and killed two people in 1957.
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- Biography, Crime, Drama
- Chuck Parello
- 2001-07-20
A list of horror and thriller films inspired by the notorious serial killer Ed Gein, who dug up corpses and made things out of their remains. See the titles, ratings, summaries and cast of each movie, from Psycho to The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
- 'Psycho'
- 'The Texas Chainsaw Massacre'
- 'The Silence of The Lambs'
- 'Three on A Meathook'
- 'Deranged'
- 'Ed and His Dead mother'
- 'Child of God'
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Gein's haunting infatuation with his mother has now become a trope for many demented horror characters who kill — take Norman Bates in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho(1960) as a prime example. However, Bates wasn't taken directly taken from Gein, but instead from the imagination of novelist Robert Bloch. Still, there was a creepy connection: Bloch was ac...
Very loosely inspired by Gein, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre took the real-life body snatcher's obsession with human skin and used it to build its character Leatherface, who hid behind face masks made out of human flesh. Although the film's family of murderers had no relation to Gein, other more conspicuous inspirations from the troubled man include ...
The serial murderer Buffalo Bill in The Silence of the Lambs not only found origins in Gein but also from other famous serial murderers, such as Ted Bundy, Gary Heidnik and Ed Kemper. Buffalo Bill's obsession with female human flesh and making suits out of his victims' skin was a direct nod to Gein.
The title basically gives a lot away. Directed by horror filmmaker William Girdler, Three on a Meathooktells the story of four young ladies whose car breaks down in a small town. A local farm boy helps them out and ultimately lures them to his family's house where his killer father, Frank, waits to eat them. Like Gein, Frank has an obsession with h...
Derangedis perhaps one of the closest films that depict the life of Gein. The slasher comedy-drama centers around a middle-aged Midwestern farmer whose overly religious mother dies. He keeps her corpse around, and to satiate his dark desires, begins to rob corpses from the graveyard so that they can keep his dead mother company. Eventually, he turn...
This 1993 dark comedy stars Steve Buscemias Ed Chilton, whose hardware store owner mother dies, leaving him to inherit the business. A salesman offers to resurrect Ed's mother from the dead, to which Ed agrees. However, once she returns, Ed's mother isn't the same and like a proper zombie, seeks out human flesh to eat. Ed decides that bringing his ...
A film co-directed by James Franco, Child of Godwas an adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's 1973 book by the same name. Although McCarthy's book was inspired by a real-life murderer based in Tennessee, the character shared many similarities as Gein. In the film, the main character is a loner who lives in the middle of nowhere and whose necrophilia comes...
Ed Gein was a notorious serial killer who had an obsession with his mother and human flesh. His life and crimes inspired many horror films, such as Psycho, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and The Silence of the Lambs.
In the Light of the Moon (also known as Ed Gein) is a 2000 crime horror film directed by Chuck Parello, and written by Stephen Johnston. It is based on the crimes of Ed Gein, an American murderer who killed at least two women in Plainfield, Wisconsin during the 1950s. It stars Steve Railsback as Gein, and Carrie Snodgress as Gein's domineering ...
- Robert McNaughton
- Tartan Films
- Hamish McAlpine, Michael Muscal
In addition to Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 film of Bloch's novel, Psycho, Gein's story was loosely adapted into numerous films, including Deranged (1974), In the Light of the Moon (2000) (released in the United States and Australia as Ed Gein (2001)), Ed Gein: The Butcher of Plainfield (2007), Ed Gein, the Musical (2010), and the Rob Zombie films ...
- 2 murders confirmed, 7 others suspected, 9 corpses mutilated (obtained from desecrated graves)
Ed Gein: The Butcher of Plainfield is a 2007 American crime horror film written and directed by Michael Feifer. A direct-to-video release, it is based on the crimes of Ed Gein, an American murderer who killed at least two women in Plainfield, Wisconsin during the 1950s.
Jun 11, 2022 · 2022. YOUR RATING. Rate. Horror. The life story of Ed Gein, the notorious serial killer and grave robber who inspired several classic horror films including 'Psycho' and 'The Texas Chainsaw Massacre'. Writer. Andrew Jones. See production info at IMDbPro. Add to Watchlist. Photos. Add photo. More like this. 5.5. Ed Gein. Watch options. 5.8.
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