| | Ed Gein DVD (9 Customer Reviews)
| Category | Horror DVDs, Thriller Movies, Mystery Videos, Suspense, Murder, True Story, Killers, Serial Killers, 1950s | | Starring | Steve Railsback, Carrie Snodgress, Steve Blackwood, Ryan Brockington, Sally Champlin, Carol Mansell, Pat Skipper, Craig Zimmerman | | Director | Chuck Parello | | Composer | Robert McNaughton | | Director of Photography | Vanja Cernjul | | Editor | Elena Maganini | | Producer | Hamish McAlpine, Michael Muscal | | Production Designer | Mark Harper | | Screenwriter | Stephen Johnston |
Ed Gein is a simple man who wants to lead a simple life on his family's farm. But the farm is remote, the family is gone, the crops perished long ago. And the ghosts of Ed's past are coming back to haunt him. Ed's only companion in life was his domineering mother, Augusta. But dear Augusta died a few years back, and Ed will never be the same. Because Ed always did have peculiar interests. Reincarnation. Head-shrinking. Cannibalism. And the wonderful world of female anatomy. This is the true story of the infamous serial killer whose life was the inspiration for "Psycho," "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre," and "The Silence of the Lambs." Ed Gein, a shy and retiring 1950s Wisconsin farmer, shocked the nation in 1957 when he was discovered to be a deeply deranged serial killer. Gein, a serial killer of nightmarish proportions, became the inspiration for Robert Bloch's novel PSYCHO, adapted for Hitchcock's legendary film, as well as the films THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE and THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS. ED GEIN recreates the early years of the reclusive man (Steve Railsback) who was raised in relative seclusion by an abusive father and an extremely domineering and puritanical mother (Carrie Snodgress.) As Ed grew to adulthood in the small farming community of Plainfield, Wisconsin he developed an unnatural obsession with his mother and her ultimate approval. After her death, Ed was possessed by her spirit, psychologically unable to give up his lifelong adoration of his deeply devout, brutal, and deranged companion. Driven insane by his own obsessions, Ed became an amateur grave robber in Plainfield and eventually became a solitary practioner of grotesque anatomy experiments and cannibalism. His fetishistic infatuation with the female body and bloodthirsty repressed lust eventually led him to murder the first of his victims, a seductive bartender (Sally Champlin), who Ed believed his mother would disapprove of. Eventually, in 1957, as Ed became more and more consumed by murder, he killed again and was eventually caught at his home--a gruesome and deeply horrific shrine to his bizarre rituals, cannibalism, and necrophilia. This dark and brutally violent film sheds new light on the strange and terrifying man whose deeply disturbing life has haunted the nation's subconscious for decades. Ed Gein Reviews: "...[Parello is] an honourable devotee of a higher tradition of horror, eschewing shocks and gore for a degree of intellectual distance and placid remove..."
-- Mark Kermode, Sight and Sound "It reminds us that, outside of Hollywood, serial killers are no laughing matter."
-- Neil Smith, Uncut
This is the only Steve Blackwood video. Stars also making their debut in this video: Ryan Brockington, Sally Champlin, Carol Mansell, Craig Zimmerman. Ed Gein | Studio | First Look Home Entertainment | | Orig Year | 2001 | | DVD Encoding | Region 1 | | All Time Sales Rank |  12594  | | CD Universe Part number | 1906824 | | Discs | 1 | | Release Date | Apr 22, 2003 | | Rating | Not Rated | | Also Known As | In the Light of the Moon | | Running Time | 88 Minutes | | Movie Details | Color |
Ed Gein Movie Review Average Rating: (3.7 out of 5 stars)   List All Reviews good movie
good movie
Submitted by redrimmel (decatur ,illinois) 
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Nikig78
This is a really good film.. My grandfather has actually met and knew ed gein, he used to work in the fields in wisconson picking watermelons.. and actually they had no idea about him bieng, well you know...until it went public and he had already moved back to his hometown from bieng an immagrant in wisconson working ..
GOOD FILM
Submitted by Nikki (Texas USA)
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i love this because it was very real and phycological. The mind of ed gein is disturbing and that is what all americans want to watch here and there. It was sooo disturbing! I loved it, 5 stars and 2 thumbs up!
Submitted by Jordan (Burlingotn, washington)
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 Could Of Been Better Makes Gein Look Stupid
This was a big disappointment! After learning everything about Ed Gein and seeing the movies that were inspired by him, I decided to rent this movie. I was hoping it would tell mostly everything that Ed Gein did. The Movie did tell mostly what Ed Gein did, but it also made Ed Gein look stupid and some of the things in the movie should of been taking out. There was a few things that were stupid in the movie that made Ed Gein look real dumb and made you not afraid nor feel bad for him. Infact every person that Ed Gein killed in this movie I never felt bad for! The Movie lacks in charcter depth, its un-scary, and the acting is weak I think. Also the visuals were extremely fake! This Movie seems like a made for t.v movie instead of an actual movie! Bad Movie! If Ed Gein saw this right now he would probably kill himself from embarassment because it made him look so stupid!
Submitted by Tom (New Jersey)
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I am a God
I know everything about movies, and I say that this is a good one... the best I have ever seen. Thanks for asking.
Submitted by jimmy (wallingford, CT)
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