It takes one particularly terrifying creep to inspire Hannibal Lecter, Norman Bates, and Leatherface, but that’s the legacy left by horrifying serial killer Ed Gein. When he was finally caught and his house of horrors in Plainfield, Wisconsin, discovered, police found masks and lampshades made from human skin, among plenty of other atrocities. His astonishing depravity proved a source of creative inspiration.
Did you know Three Major Horror Franchises Were Inspired by the Same Serial Killer?
Chase Barnes
Jace Myers
Unlike a lot of serial killers he was legit insane.
Hudson Jones
Gein wasn't even a proper serial killer, just a very sick man. In his life he killed just a couple of persons. He dug up all the other corpses from the local cemetery.
Dylan Hill
He didn't even kill that many people.
Mason Wood
Any films inspired by this guy?
Adrian Rodriguez
Citizen X
Carter Wood
Nothing to Gein, by Mudvayne
Benjamin Edwards
>Citizen X
Thanks
Brayden Mitchell
Evilenko, an italian film starring Malcolm McDowell
Lucas Adams
>was institutionalized between 1957 to 1984 and stood trial several times
>no book of interviews with former doctors, care-takers and/or people involved in the trials
What the fuck is this?
Evan Stewart
He "only" killed two people, with several years in between the killings. What made the case notable was what he did with the bodies.
David Russell
This. He was barely accused of killing like three people, none proven. He did dig up the corpses though. The best part was about his house. Rural fucking no where America, built on a plot with no road leading to it.
Owen Gonzalez
based
Bentley Brooks
contrarily to many necrophiles, he didn't even fuck the corpses because he said that they smelled bad
Joshua Stewart
>Serial Killer
>only 2 confirmed victims
Fits in the standards I reckon.
Jaxson Richardson
Chad as fuck jawline
Aiden Wood
>Nine vulvas in a shoe box
Where the hell else would you keep them?
Cooper Harris
"inspired by" as in "the writer heard there was such a thing as a serial killer and it inspired them to make a scary story"
Brayden King
He killed two women and his brother.
Austin Powell
Why did he killed the waitress and the other woman in the tools store? Because they remembered him to his mother?
Josiah Lewis
Toolbox killers were on a completely different level than gein. Possibly some of the most fucked up individuals ever
Anthony Evans
Buffalo Bill not Lecter is inspired by Gein. Technically, Buffalo Bill is actually an amalgamation of Ed Gein, Ed Kemper and Gary Heidnik.
Jonathan Turner
dudes like him have probably been casually murdering people and doing weird stuff with their bodies throughout all of human history, he was just the first one we caught
Adrian Rivera
He was one of the few to successfully pull of an insanity plea. Absolute legend.
Owen Phillips
Rural America trial
Matthew Kelly
Most of those characters are Gein mixed with several other serial killers. A product killer is very “sexy” in that it is visually great for movies. But typically they are sympathetic through their insanity or are ugly and pathetic, poor villains. So they mix in a violent and predatory process killer, now you have one that can build suspense through imagery on top of being a physical threat.
Eli Turner
Dean Corll was worse
Blake Jones
his mom must have been a fucking monster to him as a kid to psychologically rape him that badly
Nathan Wood
common knowledge. Ed may go down as the coolest american folk art artist of all time.
Angel Cook
>he doesn't have a vulva box