I actually read about Ed Gein just the other day. The movie was "based" on him, but the actual true story is far from the truth. I personaly think the true story is worse... but Hollywood didn't think so... ? it wasn't even in Texas and yes, Psicho and the silent of the lambs were based on him too.
He lived in Wisconsin in a small town with his older brother, mum and dad, his mum was always the provider at home, his dad was a alcoholic "useless" guy (as his mum would describe him) and so she was the main character and guide for the boys, she was also a very religious woman and often made the boys feel guilty for having feelings for girls, she was very strict and talked a lot about the sinful women that had sex, and how sex was a mayor sin you would go to hell for, etc etc... she didn't made remarks about masturbation though. Ed was a very shy child and didn't have many friends besides of his own brother. One day his mum got enough money to move the whole family away from the sinful town, after working in a small grocery shop for years and bought a big house in the country, with lots of acres so that they didn't have neightbours near by, she didn't want sinful people to be around her children. Their father died and so the boys who were old enough took care of their mother and got little jobs here and there. Ed was good babysitting for some of the neightbours around where they lived. They say his brother often talked to Ed about the unhealthy relationship him and his mum had and that he should go out more and how their mum had crazy ideas. Ed seemed to get very upset about his brother's lack of respect towards their mother. One afternoon the two boys were making a fire in their land and Ed lost his brother, he went and called the police, the police said that when they arrived to the place Ed showed them straight to where his brothers body was, even though he was suppoused to be lost, he was dead and had a massive cut in his head, like if someone had bashed him with a big rock or a piece of wood, but being a small town in the country and knowing how shy and good natured Ed was the police never suspected on him. A couple of years later his mum died, Ed kept her room and the entire second story, where she used to be most of the time exactly the way she left it, but made some "remodelations" around the rest of the house. He liked science fiction novels and tales about the tribes that shrink heads and this sort of things, so he started a hobbie, he would go to the cementery and open tumbs, he had sex with the dead bodies and he often took pieces of skin that he made into lamps, furniture and an actual "woman suit" that he would wear around the house to "feel like a woman" and a "nipples belt". The police reported a few disapearances around the town, a few girls were kidnapped, leaving traces of blood behind. The last victim was traced back to Ed Gein and that's how the police finally searched his house. When they arrived they couldn't believe their eyes. The house was horrific, full of dead skins, dirty dishes, mess everywhere, just like in the house in the movie, or worse... the sheriff moved backwards in a dark room only to bump into the last victims body hanging from the ceiling like a dead deer. And well... that's pretty much it... he went into a psichiatric home, where he was a "pleasant patient" except for "staring" right at the nurses when they passed near him... he died of old age and that's the end :)
2006-08-12 15:15:45
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answered by rawvegangirl 1
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The Texas Chain Saw Massacre was not based on a true story, and is not true at all. Tobe Hooper( the director and co-writer) just put that in for the effect. I do think he got the idea from a article about grave desecration in a local cemetery, though. The character of Leatherface is somewhat based on Ed Gein, but so was Norman Bates of Psycho. I'd imagine Ed Gein is on the "Scale of Evil".
2006-08-12 13:34:58
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answered by Anonymous
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It's important to note that it's the "original" that is based on Ed Gein, a Wisconsin killer/cannibal in the 1950's. The rather pathetic "Chainsaw" remake changed the story considerably.
The original film is loosely based on Ed Gein, most notably his penchant for digging up victims and making masks of their flesh (found around his home). The film also loosely portrays his cannibalism.
Untrue? Gein did not go running around with a chainsaw, and he always acted alone (the movie portrays others involved).
It is also said that the actual house in the film is fairly similar to Gein's own house in Wisconsin. Gein was actually, as I recall, only convicted of two deaths...but suspected of several others.
Also, "Silence of the Lambs" and "Psycho" have bits of Gein's story in them.
2006-08-12 13:30:34
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answered by tendernesstour 2
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Texas Chainsaw Massacre was LOOSELY based on Ed Gein. Gein had an obsession with taxidermy, and reportedly had preserved his mother's skin, and wore it. Psycho, and Silence of the Lambs also based their villians on him.
2006-08-12 13:15:07
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answered by Bill K Atheist Goodfella 6
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His name was Ed Gien. There are videos you can rent that tell his story. It's even stranger than the Texas stuff because this is true.
2006-08-12 13:13:11
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answered by physandchemteach 7
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This Site Might Help You.
RE:
WHO IS THE texas chainsaw killer?
its true right? well who is the man that did it? what do you think he would be on dr. stone's 'Scale of Evil'?(http://www.b0g.org/wsnm/journals/TheThirdCross/entry/2530/ )
2015-08-18 19:33:23
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answered by Sloan 1
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They base most of those moives on Ed Gein, use wikipedia to look him up.
2006-08-12 13:12:37
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answered by Ohemge 2
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The movie says it is based on a true story, but i don't know who it was...
2006-08-12 13:11:10
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answered by ♡StarGirl♡ 2
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Ed Gein???? #22
2006-08-12 13:10:44
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answered by musicgrlluvher 5
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2015-08-04 18:05:50
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answered by Anonymous
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