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Ed Gein
Sept 22, 2009 14:50:14 GMT -5
Post by Leatherface on Sept 22, 2009 14:50:14 GMT -5
post your thoughts on the Man who inspired Norman Bates, Leatherface, and buffalo bill. i think that although sicka nd disturbed he's veryfascinating ya know.
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Ed Gein
Sept 23, 2009 9:40:57 GMT -5
Post by CT on Sept 23, 2009 9:40:57 GMT -5
I suppose horror movie producers have made a bundle off variations of his story. He is fascinating in that you wonder what could drive someone to be so sick. I mean murderers come and go but a dude who wears the body parts of his victims? That's just plain gross but fortunately for us, great horror movie fodder.
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Ed Gein
Sept 23, 2009 9:54:56 GMT -5
Post by GL on Sept 23, 2009 9:54:56 GMT -5
True, they've made a bundle, but hardly any of them have been any good. You'd think there would be a goldmine of stuff to do with him, but none of them have anything going for them.
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Ed Gein
Sept 23, 2009 9:56:45 GMT -5
Post by HNT on Sept 23, 2009 9:56:45 GMT -5
Well, I thought the Ed Gein movie a with Steve Railsback was a little weak. I don't know how you can make a movie about a topic like this one boring, but they kinda succeeded.
Everything that I know about Ed Gein indicates taht he was really kind of a pathetic and lonely guy who was clearly really messed up in the head by his mother. I would kind of feel bad for the guy if his actions weren't so utterly indefensible.
As for my feelings on him, I find the movies that he inspired to be loads of fun (Psycho and TCM especially), I generally find mental illness to be a fascinating thing to study, but I can't say that Ed Gein is really a particularly intreresting serial killer so much as he was one of the first to capture the national attention in the early 50's. His story is as sad as it is twisted
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Ed Gein
Sept 23, 2009 14:24:33 GMT -5
Post by Leatherface on Sept 23, 2009 14:24:33 GMT -5
The one with steve railsback is as close as anyone will ever get with Gein. i do feel sorry for him but ed is believe dto ahve killed not only his brother but 5 people from both plainfield and la crosse ( his birthtown) but due to the house being burned down with a majority of the evidence still inside nobody will ever know. also Ed's sick and disturbing crimes made psychopaths into great media coverage. i mean would the entire nation really care about Jeff Dahmer? or John wayne Gacy? becuase of ed's so bizarrea nd deviant crimes america opened its eyes and created the question is to how many other ed geins are there out there.
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Ed Gein
Sept 23, 2009 14:39:17 GMT -5
Post by CT on Sept 23, 2009 14:39:17 GMT -5
Good points Leatherface. I suppose the horror genre might not be what it is today if it were not for psychopaths like gein who became infamous nationally in the 20th century as media and info spread. But then again I suppose it was bound to materialize somehow simply because of cruel human nature. Ok that as mich bogus philosophising as I can spew in one 15 minute work break.
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Ed Gein
Sept 24, 2009 22:40:35 GMT -5
Post by FireStar on Sept 24, 2009 22:40:35 GMT -5
I've always found Ed Gein to be very fascinating, especially when considering all the depraved things he did before he was caught, and once he was instutionalized he never caused any problems or hurt anyone ever again. Such a difference just removing him from his environment.
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Ed Gein
Sept 24, 2009 23:07:14 GMT -5
Post by CT on Sept 24, 2009 23:07:14 GMT -5
I didn't know that about him being peaceful at the institution.
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Ed Gein
Sept 25, 2009 9:57:00 GMT -5
Post by GL on Sept 25, 2009 9:57:00 GMT -5
Wow, he was institutionalized? I figured they would've executed him the second he was found guilty.
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Ed Gein
Sept 25, 2009 16:09:15 GMT -5
Post by Leatherface on Sept 25, 2009 16:09:15 GMT -5
Ed was actually never found guilty. in his first trial he was found mentally incompitent for trial so in 1968 11 years after the trial he was put on trial again after being deemed sane enough for trial. he was found not guilty by reason of insanity.
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Ed Gein
Sept 26, 2009 14:20:09 GMT -5
Post by CT on Sept 26, 2009 14:20:09 GMT -5
There's no doubt he was insane. But as GL pointed out I'm suprised that back then they didn't execute him anyway.
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Ed Gein
Sept 26, 2009 16:31:19 GMT -5
Post by Leatherface on Sept 26, 2009 16:31:19 GMT -5
i know that's what makes his case so bizarre. but the odd thing was ed wasn't sane during the second trial. i'm guessing that the reason why they waited was so hopefully people would forget about hima nd saw the charles manson crimes as a way for the US media to leave the town alone. Ed geins grave is between his mom and his brother. his tombstone is i think in the possesion of the plainfield PD becuase people kept vandalizing/stealing it.
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Ed Gein
Sept 27, 2009 10:40:44 GMT -5
Post by CT on Sept 27, 2009 10:40:44 GMT -5
Yeah that would be the ultimate horror collectors item! Ed Geins tombstone hanging on your wall!
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Ed Gein
Sept 27, 2009 22:28:44 GMT -5
Post by FireStar on Sept 27, 2009 22:28:44 GMT -5
That might be a little too much horror for me to have in the house.
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Ed Gein
Sept 28, 2009 16:19:45 GMT -5
Post by HNT on Sept 28, 2009 16:19:45 GMT -5
Yeah that would be the ultimate horror collectors item! Ed Geins tombstone hanging on your wall! Not long ago I bid on one of Gacy's clown paintings. I didn't win, as it wound up selling for several thousand dollars, but it sure would've been a trip to hang it in the ole living room, lol
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