Ed Gein was a solitary man who lived on the outskirts of Plainfield, Wisconsin. In 1957 his arrest uncovered one of the most bizarre crimes in history.
Having been left alone after the death of his abusive, domineering, religiously fanatical mother, on whom his whole sense of reality was based, Gein began to descend into an insane and twisted world of grave robberies, necrophilia, cannibalism, and murder.
The 2000 film Ed Gein tells the story of a very disturbed man who did very disturbing things. His heinous acts have since inspired the villains of such horror classics as Silence of the Lambs, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and Psycho.
Compared with the 2007 film, The Butcher of Plainfield, this film tells the story far closer to the facts. While less action packed and explicitly violent, it still comes out much more powerful by simply sticking the true case of Ed Gein.
As with the real life case, there are only two actual murders; neither of which are particularly graphic but yet are horrifying in a realistic, non-sensationalized way. Most of Ed's grisly decorum and human skin garb were produced from the corpses of the more than a dozen women he excavated from the grave. It doesn't need to go into graphic detail of how Gein employed his troubling DIY skills to get the items in question from point A to point B. Watching him throw two chops of what we can only assume is human flesh in his frying pan, or dance around in human skins is more than enough to churn the stomach. This is one crime where the saying "truth is stranger than fiction" definitely holds true.
3 cans of pork and beans out of 5
Rated R for violence, sexual content, nudity, disturbing scenes.
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