Ed Gein

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Summary: Ed Gein at last!!!!
Review: First off, let me say thank you to Chuck Parello for bringing us the first and only accurate film about the life and crimes of Ed Gein. This movie is top notch, even for low budget, and Steve Railsback plays Eddie to a "T." What an outstanding performance. Carrie Snodgrass is also brilliant in her role as Augusta Gein, the bible thumping tyrant mother. Truely award winning performances by both. The movie plays in the late 50's during Eddies murdering and grave robbing days, with constant flash backs to his childhood, growing up and losing his family members one by one. The film is about 95% accurate and ends after his arrest for the murder of Bernice Worden. (Collette Marshall in the film). Because the Wordens still actually live in Plainfield and their hardware store still stands, their names were changed for the movie. For anyone expecting to see a grisly bloodfest, this movie isn't for you. It was done in quite good taste, almost too good. I think they purposely kept the film's gore/scare level to a minimum, so as not to attract too much unwanted attention from people in Wisconsin and elsewhere. This film is not scary, not real creepy and not gorey. It could be considered the best "case study" ever done on Americas first "serial killer." Even the musical score is middle of the road, with no creepy under tones and no "stingers." That might disappoint alot of people expecting to be scared and grossed out beyond imagination. None the less, this film is one of the best movies I've seen and the ONLY movie on Ed you will ever need to see. Railsback's potrail of Ed Gein is almost unnerving, right down to the nervous twitch in his lip. Most of you will remember Railsback as Charlie Manson in Helter Skelter. Believe me, he is just as convincing if not more as the Wisconsin psycho. My only disappointment? Edddies farm house is much nicer and well lit then it should have been. Considering he had no electricity, and usually carried around a kerosene lamp, his farm house in this film is very well lit and the insane rubbish just isn't there. Bogey's rating: 11 beers out of a 12pk!

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Summary: ED GEIN - FACT IS STRANGER THAN FICTION
Review: For those who dont know about Ed...he [or his crimes]have altered cinema forever... SILENCE OF THE LAMBS , TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE , PYSCHO....
but this is the closest portrayal to the actual events i have seen since DERANGED [1974], The acting in this is brilliant[the guy who plays gein also played Charlie Manson in Helter Skelter], the film is very watchable and realistic [dispite the one scene with computer generated fire :( ]... If your looking for gore and laughs go for DERANGED which was also a low budget but fairly accurate gein movie with tom savini gore. This film has gore, but its more of a HENRY : Portait of a serial killer style...where the blood shed is suggested rather than effects filled stuff...Definately check this film out...ive read mixed reviews about this movie but its definetly worth checking out...

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Summary: Satisfying little chiller.
Review: Ed Gein was not one of the world's most prolific serial killers, but he is one of the most imitated. Several classic movie maniacs have been inspired by his real life crimes (Norman Bates, Leatherface, and 'Silence of the Lambs' Buffalo Bill, to name a few). But few people are really aware of the man who not only inspired a slew of slasher films but also a couple of heavy metal songs ('Dead Skin Mask' by Slayer, anyone?). This film, by director Chuck Parello, fresh off of another serial killer flick, 'Henry 2: Mask of Sanity', tries to play it's subject matter straight and indeed it does. There are no fake scares, no cheap one-liners, no charismatic killers slicing and dicing nubile young coeds. It is a serious and disturbing character study, a psychological tale that dwells very, very deep in the mind of it's title character. Played by the great character actor Steve Railsback (who played Charlie Manson in 'Helter Skelter' back in 1976) Ed Gein is a slow-witted child of a man, unable to cope with the passing of his mother (played by another great character actor, Carrie Snodgress). He goes about digging up graves and trying to resurrect the corpses. He is a cannibal and a necrophile and, in the movie's most jarring scene, enjoys dressing in the skin of his victims. The violence presented in the film is not terribly explicit, instead relying on suggestion to achieve a discomforting effect. For all it's merits however, 'Ed Gein' fails on many levels. Most of the supporting cast feels under-developed and under-acted. The low budget look of the film gives it a documentary feel which would be great if the movie was devised to be that kind of film. And there is one truly ridiculous scene involving completely unbelieveable computer generated fire effects that ruins the illusion of reality that Parello and Co. tried so hard to create. But all in all, 'Ed Gein' is a triumph. It's rare that a genre filmmaker like Parello chooses subject matter that could so very easily become nothing more then run-of-the-mill blood and guts fodder and actually turns it into an informative and engrossing tale. But he does. Railsback is the perfect choice for the role of Gein (think Carl from 'Sling Blade' meets Norman Bates and you got the idea) and he brings a sense of pity and childlike innocence to the role. 'Ed Gein' might not have the guttural punch of 'Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer' or the harsh suspense of 'Deranged' (also based on Mr. Gein), but it does one thing and one thing well: it tells the truth.

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Summary: Wow
Review: When I heard that some of my favorite blockbusters of all time, like "Psycho" and "Texas Chainsaw Massacare" were based upon the life of Ed Gein, I knew that I had to see this movie. I enjoyed the movie very much, and I was pleased to find that it was not half as gory as I would have expected it to be. The Ed Gein character, was more distured than Norman Bates in "Psycho" because he would actually keep his victims...hanging around....pardon the pun, as where Norman Bates would quickly get rid of the dead bodies. On the other hand, Ed Gein was more belivable than the leather face charcter in "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" because Ed Gein was a real seemingly normal person, as where Leatherface was more of a monster. I enjoyed this movie so much that it could have actually been longer.

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Summary: Save Your Money.
Review: This is one of the worst movies i've ever seen in my opinion. The movie is slow and barely entertaining. The acting isn't good even for a low budget movie and it's boring as hell. You can rent it yourself and see what you think but your're better off just saving your money and going on the internet, check out some sites about Gein and read about him. The story is much more interesting when you're reading about him and it explains a lot more. Just stating my opinion, later.

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Summary: Pretty Cool
Review: Highlights of the movie include hilarious scenes with Ed, Ed'd older brother and their Mother reading them scripture as they grow up. The older brother grows very disinterested while Ed hangs on every word. When the two go hunting, Ed's brother tells Ed he is thinking of moving out of the house,(They are both well into their 40's), and Ed kills him. Another unforgettable scene: Ed dancing around with sewn on breasts and a vagina he cut from one of his victims. Not to mention also frying a vagina in a frying pan on his range.

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Summary: Scary & Accurate.
Review: Now this movie unlike "Dahmer" is more true than all of these serial killer movies that have been released and even if it does have parts where it's not true it's still scary.The names are true,the places are true,the murders are true(except for his brother that was never proved) but the film is creepy and Steve
Railsback does a great job as Gein.This movie is well done too,not relying on computers and wires for their special effects but using makeup and so on.The movie starts out with Ed Gein and his brother as a child with their woman hating mother.Now Ed grows to hate women and love his mother and only his mother and when she dies the last thing Gein loved was gone.But Ed begins to see his mothers ghost who tells him to kill.But Ed tries to raise his mother from the dead by digging up graves and using the skins banging on a drum,the movie is very creepy and disturbing and not for the weak of heart.

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Summary: Good Movie
Review: This was a good movie. While watching this, it is unbelievable that this was a true story

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Summary: BOORING
Review: Who'd have thought that a movie about the guy who inspired the Texas Chainsaw Massacre could be boring? I kept watching in the hopes that it would get better, or at least keep me awake, but to no avail. Re-rent Psycho. It's a 1000X better.

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Summary: Ed Gein-The Movie!!!
Review: ED GEIN is a horor movie based on the life and crimes of the serial killer, Edward Gein. As a child, he was born to an alcoholic father and a strictly religous mother, who he loved with all his heart. When his mother died of a stroke, Gein's fragile mind snapped and was drove to crimes like necrophilia and cannibalism.
-From THE MORE YOU KNOW.