As I often do,I was channel surfing and stopped on IFC(Independent Film channel)which shows uncut independently produced movies and often very good ones-for example last weekend they aired "Slingblade" &"Kinsey".Tonight they are showing "Ed Gein"(2001),an independent horror-docudrama about the infamous Wisconsin cannibal/cross-dresser/grave-robber/killer Ed Gein.I read alot of true crime and I am a born horror movie fanatic so I have seen this before but I wanted to recommend it to anyone who likes horror movies based on true events.Actor Steve Railsback is creepily convincing as Gein and the film is very well put together,although some character names were changed,the screenplay followed all the true crime accounts of the story accurately.Alot of people do not realize it,but both "Psycho" and "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" were loosely based on Ed Geins crimes.Gein not only had an obsession with his domineering mother,he fashioned body parts from female corpses to wear as a "suit" so he could,in his mind,be his mother.When police raided his farmhouse they found one of his murder victims dressed out like a deer and numerous grisly little "trophies",various body parts including skulls sculpted into bowls and lampshades of human skin.
Gein died in 1984 while still incarcerated in a Wisconsin mental hospital and today after repeated vandalism,his gravestone sits in a Wautoma,WI museum.
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