Ed Gein

The life of Edward Gein is a dark legend. When police raided his mid-western American farmhouse in November 1957, they found a gruesome cache that roused the Eisenhower era from its slumbers. In more than four decades since Gein was locked away in a mental institution, his story has bled its way int [...]
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The life of Edward Gein is a dark legend. When police raided his mid-western American farmhouse in November 1957, they found a gruesome cache that roused the Eisenhower era from its slumbers. In more than four decades since Gein was locked away in a mental institution, his story has bled its way into popular culture: Alfred hitchcock's Psycho (1960) based the mother-fixated Norman Bates on the oedipal Gein; The Silence of the Lambs (1991) featured a grotesque skin tranvestite based on Gein. Autumn 2001 now sees the UK release of Ed Gein the first time filmmakers have dared tell the story without a leavening of fiction.