![]() This classic would go on to spawn sequels and a hit show, Bates Motel (2013-2017). The fact that he keeps remnants of the dead and dresses up as his mother all brings the Ed Gein-connection into focus. The killer of Psycho, motel-owner Norman Bates, was so obsessed with his mother he’d dress as her while slashing his patrons to pieces. When the movie adaptation by Alfred Hitchcock was released in 1960, it felt even more like a direct allusion to Ed Gein. While he hadn’t originally based his novel on Ed Gein, he did add a few lines that alluded to his case before the book was published. Movies Inspired by Ed Gein Psycho (1960) In Psycho, Norman Bates loved his mother so much that he’d dress as her after her death, much like the serial killer Ed Gein who planned to wear a skin suit to be his mother.Īuthor Robert Bloch wrote the novel Psycho in the late ’50s just a few towns over from Plainville, Wisconsin. The following are horror movies that were inspired by Ed Gein, the Butcher of Plainfield. His skinning of bodies, his perverse goal of recreating his mother, would all be fodder for horror movie villains that have become a staple of the genre. Gein, who was often called the Butcher of Plainfield, would be the inspiration for many horror movie murderers, including Norman Bates and Buffalo Bill. While Ed Gein would go on to be tried and deemed not guilty by reason of insanity, spending the rest of his life in a state hospital until his death in 1984, his legacy will live on forever. Ed Gein’s headstone in 1999 before it was stolen from the Plainfield Cemetary in 2000. In addition to the two he admitted to, he was suspected of other local murders as well. In addition to Bernice Worden, he also admitted to the 1954 kidnapping and murder of tavern owner Mary Hogan. ![]() Some of the skin was from his own victims, though. He’d rob the recently dug graves of middle aged women that resembled his mother. Through Ed’s confessions, they learned that most of the skin he used was procured from graverobbing at the nearby Plainfield cemeteries. When they asked him about the corset and leggings made from human skin, he said he was trying to create a suit of women’s skin so “he could become his mother-to literally crawl into her skin.” He even used a pair of lips as the pull of a window shade. He made a lampshade from human faces and human skin covered chair seats and wastebaskets. Ed Gein had made a belt from women’s nipples. The Waushara County Sherrif’s Department would go on to find a host of terrifying decor and accessories made from human skin and bone. He spent the following 12 years working on the farm and doing odd jobs in the community until that fateful day when the hardware store owner went missing and all signs pointed to Gein. He boarded up his mother’s rooms to keep them pristine and just the way she left them, while living in the kitchen, bathroom, and remaining adjoining room. ![]() When Augusta Gein died in 1945 after complications from a stroke, Ed was the sole Gein remaining to take care of the farm. The Silence of the Lamb’s Buffalo Bill was directly inspired by Ed Gein. While he had bruises on his head, the coroner skipped an autopsy and ruled it an accidental death by asphyxiation. The obstinate older brother was found dead after a brushfire on the property. While unconfirmed, Henry was likely Ed’s first kill. To her, all women were whores with the sole goal of tempting men to the side of Satan. He listened to her sermon about the dangers of every female (but her) with rapt attention. While Henry pushed back against the oppressive rules of their mother, Ed was devoted. They were only let off their secluded farm to attend school. His overbearing and overprotective religious mother, Augusta Gein, wouldn’t let him or his older brother Henry make friends. Anthony Perkins as Norman Bates, the Ed Gein-inspired killer of Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho.Įd’s childhood was cloistered. What they found inside was so horrific that horror movies were inspired by Ed Gein and what he’d done. While they’d only suspected they might find the remains of Bernice Worden, the owner of the local hardware store who’d gone missing that morning, they never imagined what else they would discover. On the evening of November, 16, 1957, the Sheriff’s Department of Waushara County, Wisconsin entered the Plainfield home of Ed Gein to find an atrocity of horrors. ![]() Who was Ed Gein? Ed Gein, after his crimes were revealed, was often called “The Butcher of Plainfield.” ![]()
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