![]() ![]() The most interesting part? Gein died in 1984, meaning he was probably aware of his legacy. He so fascinated Werner Herzog that Herzog by his own admission once tried (and failed) to dig up Gein's mother's grave to see if she was still there. In his lifetime, Gein was interviewed by legendary documentary maker Errol Morris. At any rate, Bill has Gein's habits of dressing in the flesh of murdered women. Things are less clear-cut with Silence of the Lambs (writer Robert Harris hasn't given an interview since 1976), but Rolling Stone has suggested the murderous Buffalo Bill was a mash-up of Gein, Bundy, and another serial killer named Gary Heidnik. Elements of Gein's screwed-up family life were taken to make the character of Norman Bates, who Alfred Hitchcock put on the screen in 1960 - only three years after Gein was caught. NPR described how Bloch lived in Wisconsin at the time of Gein's arrest and became fascinated by the serial-killing momma's boy. ![]() Psycho was originally a book by pulp writer Robert Bloch. He just preferred to use knives instead of power saws. Gein liked to carve up bodies, displaying the corpse of one victim naked, decapitated, and disemboweled in his barn. Interestingly, it wasn't as completely gratuitous an addition as it sounds. Thankfully, Hooper was a guy who made films about maniac killers rather than being a maniac killer himself, so instead of revving one of those suckers up, he simply added the idea to the upcoming Ed Gein-inspired flick he'd been working on. For the briefest moment, he had a daydream about grabbing one and slicing his way through the heaving crowds. As director Hooper once explained (quoted here via a Snopes article on the factual nature of the movie), he was visiting a hardware store during the holidays when he found himself in front of a display full of chainsaws. Tobe Hoppers The Texas Chain Saw Massacre is a landmark low budget horror movie which must be considered a modern classic. So where did the chainsaw part of Texas Chain Saw come from? Luckily, the internet already has the answer. The total number of crimes Ed Gein committed with a chainsaw? Zero. One thing led to another, and at the beginning of October, we found ourselves strong-arming my family into watching The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (the original 1974 film, of course) as part. ![]() This is still a far higher chainsaw kill count than in real life. ![]()
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