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There was actually a low-budget little-see biopic of the man, appropriately titled Ed Gein, which sold itself as being based on the killer that inspired those films.
Believe it or Not! When “Based on a True Story” Goes Bad… | MovieChopShop 2010
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Director Michael Feifer has made Ed Gein, in this movie, as a lumbering madman who intimidates people and has no problem with bashing in a skull or crushing a larynx or two.
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Deranged is based on the exploits of serial killer Ed Gein, who also inspired The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Psycho, and countless other films.
Deranged (1974) 2010
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Was Saltzman saying that if a lone lunatic SS man, some Ed Gein—style Nazi, had made a lampshade, that would fall under the heading of personal rather than institutional psychopathy and therefore not fall within the purview of august organizations like national museums?
The Lampshade Mark Jacobson 2010
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Ed Gein was a small man in stature and very quiet, soft spoken and UNintimidating who was looked at strange, but harmless.
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That movie for the most part was right on the real story and Steve Railsback plays a hauntingly real Ed Gein.
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The sordid story of Ed Gein, the serial killer who inspired the novel on which Hitchcock based his movie, was only two years in the past.
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It seems as though this movie was made to try and make Ed Gein the next big franchise serial killer for the big screen, like the very films the real man influenced.
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On top of that, I enjoyed the many references to famous serial killers Dennis Rader, Jeffrey Dahmer, John Wayne Gacy, Son of Sam, Jack the Ripper, Ted Bundy, Ed Gein and the in-depth look at the work of a mortician.
“I Am Not A Serial Killer” by Dan Wells (Reviewed by Robert Thompson) Robert 2010
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Bloch got his inspiration for the character of Norman Bates from the true life of Plainfield psychopath Ed Gein.
Psycho (1960) 2010
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