Then make it factual. This movie is a bunch of garbage. I've read true crime stories since i was in school and i've read alot about Ed Gein. This movie doesn't even come close to the real story.
shareYeah, I know. My father and I watched it together. I started laughing during the opening credits because some of the crime scene photos were from Jack the Ripper and other murders, not even in the same era as Ed Gein...but I thought we'd try to watch it anyway. I think we got through about ten minutes before Dad got up to do something else and I started looking for something more interesting to watch.
They showed a background with mountains for a town where there were no mountains, for one thing. Ed was shown as a psychopath like Hannibal Lecter--he was a schizophrenic! He was crazy, not cold and calculated. When I saw his victims, though, that was the last straw. He did not abduct twenty-year-old girls from their cars. He also did not try to kill anyone else to cover up his crimes or escape--he was actually a model prisoner. He dug up dead bodies from cemeteries to use them for a "woman suit" he made because he wanted a sex change. He only killed one or two people. But the thing is, the bodies of the people he dug up were women he saw in the obituaries who reminded him of his mother. His victims were older women. And even the ones he actually killed weren't tortured, as far as I know. I believe he killed them and then cut them up, so even though the mutilations were shocking, it was all post-mortem.
In short, the only things that were similar between the real Ed Gein and this fictional one were his name and the name of the town. Read a book, people. I think Thomas Harris did more research on Gein than these people did, and he was only writing about "Buffalo Bill."
It's on Zone Horror now. From what I'm getting, it appears people are mostly pissed off that it's nothing like the real story of Ed Gein. I'll take your word for that as I know very little about him.
Oh, and there is the fact that the film is total rubbish (only watched it for Kane Hodder)! Hehehe.
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Man this was soooooooo way off! Another error, Ed Gein was a scrawny, small figured, feminant guy...not a muscular, butch. Also, even the way they had inside the house was wrong (from my research, it was a total mess and there was more body parts around the house)
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I think at one point in the opening credits, they showed an actual picture of Ed Gein. I do agree that the movie is way off but still decent.
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Sat through the first five minutes including the opening credits. The minute I saw a chick running around that was under 50 years old I turned it off. I guess the makers of this film thought that we wanted to see young actresses instead of the actual facts in the case. What is kind of funny about that is that the case itself was creepy enough to inspire some of the greatest Hollywood killers but apparently that wasn't good enough for this director to stick to the facts.
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I wholeheartedly agree, Jeffcna.
It's not the first of it's ilk to give a gross misrepresentation of the truth. As my late father would likely have said 'Oh yippee, another "true" movie, minus all of the facts'
Dad and I liked our true crime. I remember watching my DVD on Henry Lee Lucas called Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer. That was equally diabolical and rather begs the question as to why bother making a movie that is more fictional than factual and try to pass it off as a true representation. For example, in said movie, Henry killed and decapitated his criminal side-kick, Otis Toole when in fact Otis was arrested, tried and sent to jail. Even part of his trial is on YouTube!
As for this Gein movie, even the programme synposis on Zone Horror was wrong as it mentioned Gein's "Killing spree". What killing spree? He was only convicted of two murders. Most of his activities involved the unintering of dead bodies which he would ezperiment on and use their skulls to make bowls on occasion, among other things like constructing a female body mask as someone has already mentioned.
I get really annoyed by fabrication because it trivialises the very real suffering of the genuine victims.
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I agree The real Ed Gein only killed 2 people both female, their are speculation he killed his brother aswell but its not confirmed. Also he didnt try and hide his crimes at all. He was messed up and didnt seem to know anything was wrong with what he did. Also he did tell people he had one of the missing women at home but people thought he was joking.
They should have called it something else like psycho, its based on the gein story in part "The mother obsession" but they didnt say based on real story.
Ed Gein was a very ill man, something that was mostly caused by his abusive mother and the fact that he was treated as mentally retarded by his peers for his speech impediment, shyness and lazy eye, despite being average at the least, and highly intelligent at the most (especially when it came to literature). He was what people see as ''schizophrenic'', though schizophrenia is not really a correct diagnosis of his condition, because he could be somewhat normal, friendly (seemingly sincerely), and then murderous and strange on other occasions. I feel sorry for his victims, but also Gein himself, a victim of abuse. If his life turned out differently who know what good he could have done for his community and the world.
Making his film into a slasher movies seems distasteful.
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