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This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

The "Ed Gein" of this flick is not the real Ed Gein--how the real one carried himself. Therefore, this is really a travesty which should be avoided.

I am fascinated with historical figures such as this strange man. I saw a TV special about Ed Gein and decided to rent this movie. I was not too impressed with the movie. It was interesting but very shallow. Ed Gein was a very strange man who ate soup out of skull caps to name just one of the many disgusting things. What surprised me is how when he shot that one bartender, how she just kind of kept living as if she had not been shot at all! That was very strange. And Ed's mother was very odd in my opinion as well. I was told by Jake that his Mom molested him or literally tried to have or DID have sex with her son, Ed Gein. I am going to have to see if this is true in the book. Yes, I bought a book about this man who was the inspiration for the Texas Chainsaw Massacre. So, all in all, a mediocre rental.

First off I think this film may have been marketed badly. Ed Gein isn't so much or a horror film as it is a character study of the man himself. Anyone expecting an all-out splatter fest might be disappointed.The film follows the story of Ed Gein, a simple and socially inept Wisconsin farmer, and his descent into strange perversions after the death of his mother. Steve Railsback, who plays Ed, does a masterful job portraying the little boy lost in an old man's body. Ed Gein was not your typical serial killer, and this movie respects the true facts of what made him do what he did. In the end Mr. Gein becomes almost a sympathetic character. His atrocities are offset by the viewer knowing he likely suffered from mental health problems that couldn't be addressed at that time.To me Ed Gein (based on this portrayal) is no different than countless impressionable young people who have mental illness. Without support, and left to their own devices, bad things are likely to happen. Yes, Ed Gein committed savage acts and he deserved to be in jail for life. But this movie shows that his curiosities were misplaced and his illness untreated.The production values are top notch and the script is solid. As mentioned before, Mr. Railsback becomes Ed Gein, and played him without camp or overacting. Great cast, great locations, and great era appropriate props.Be aware that Ed Gein is not your typical horror movie, but it is an enjoyable study of one of the most shocking string of murders in US history.

Notorious Wisconsin serial killer Ed Gein served as the inspiration for many horror movies already; either films that are loosely based on his vile acts ("the Texas Chainsaw Massacre") or more factual re-tellings of his case ("Deranged: Confessions of a Serial Necrophile"). Chuck Parello now takes the credit of creating the most accurate and faithful portrait of this historical psychopath (not even changing the name of killer & victims like it was the case in "Deranged"), but he wasn't capable of delivering a disturbing and/or compelling horror movie with the subject matter he gathered. "Ed Gein" is a sober (...better make that VERY sober) and monotonous drama about an emotionally unstable bachelor, still under the influence of his dominating mother who's been dead since 9 years already. Despite everyone in the little village being friendly and patient with Ed, he's very introvert and suffering from delusions in which his dead mother orders him to kill "sinful" people in his surrounding. This film is not scary at all, since Parello wastes too much time on pointless flashbacks and amateurish psychology. The film merely just hints at Gein's bizarre and perverted sexual preferences and shows very little, apart from a totally out-of-place sequence in which he dances around (in the light of the moon) wearing the skinned face of one of his victims. The acts of violence Gein eventually does commit are rather tame and not nearly as unsettling as the real thing. The obvious lack in budget can hardly be used as an excuse, since the 1974 film "Deranged: Confessions of a Serial Necrophile" was a poverty row production as well and that film DID deliver genuine shocks and gruesome images. I strongly advice to watch that one instead, even though it's a lot more difficult to track down.