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  • Actors: Steve Railsback, Carrie Snodgress, Carol Mansell, Sally Champlin, Steve Blackwood
  • Directors: Chuck Parello
  • Writers: Stephen Johnston
  • Producers: Bill Cross, A. Brooks Medoff, Charles Adelman, Hamish McAlpine, Karen Nicholls
  • Format: Anamorphic, PAL, Widescreen, Colour
  • Language English
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 18
  • Studio: Tartan Video
  • DVD Release Date: 19 Nov 2001
  • Run Time: 85 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00005RY96
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 60,478 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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DVD Description
DVD Special Features:

Star and Director Filmographies
Scene Selection
Alan Jones Production Notes
Original Trailer
Deleted Scenes
Tartan Terror Trailer Reel
Language: English
Subtitles: none
Dolby Digital
Anamorphic Widescreen

Synopsis
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 necrophelia. 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.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Faithful recollection of a true story., 28 Jun 2002
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Ed Gein is a fascinating film about the crimes and suffering of the man of the title. The script is completely true to what happened and never loses the story in an effort to make it more appealing to the masses. Ed Gein lived in Plainfield and when he was arrested in the 50's his acts shocked and horrified people all over America, also inspiring such movies as Psycho and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and the character of Buffalo Bill in The Silence Of The Lambs. Steve Railsback is perfect as Eddy and is frighteningly similar to the real man. He carries the whole film effortlessly and I strongly believe had this movie been more succesful he would have been nominated for an academy award. This film is deeply tragic and moving but very funny in places. It's a shame it's not very well known because it's a beautifully shot and brilliantly acted piece of cinema.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Serial Killer Fun, 26 April 2004
By Mr. Robert A. Spacey "robspacey" (Derby, UK) - See all my reviews
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Ed Gein was notorious in the 1950's for his crimes against people. Theseincluded digging up dead people, making them into attractive interiouritems and shrinking their heads, as well as then going on to kill peopleand eat them/make fetching suites out of their skins. Inspiring suchcharacters as Norman Bates, Buffalo Bill and The Leatherface clan, thisstory differs in that it's REAL. The story sticks to the facts, onlydramatizing them where nessessary. Perhaps the american censoring board,coupled with a compact special effects budget meant we don't get to seethe crimes in their full horrific glory, but still a good film, underratedin it's popularity. One for serial killer fans.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Horror Fan , 15 May 2007
By Beebs (London) - See all my reviews
This film is really well done. It doesn't need to be gory or even scary, it simply tells Ed Gein's story as it really happened. Terrific acting and every scene is beautifully shot. Ed Gein had a level of weird that is still unsurpassed and the scene where he dances in his skin suit banging his little drum is really freaky. It's a creepy, intelligent film which I thoroughly enjoyed.
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