Customer Reviews:
very upset.......2007-09-11
yes , the facts were there , but the film? it was slow and not as scary as reading about this guy , i read about this guy for a long time and none of the shocking stats that make you shudder were in this film.
i will buy the other ed gein titles and hopefully get scared by a scary film
The Original "Psycho".......2006-03-23
Well, I know this isn't the most fun film to watch, afterall it tells the real life story of Ed Gein, the man who inspired the films "Psycho" and "Silence of the Lambs".
But it is a brutally honest look at the life of this famous serial killer (the first person to be given that label).
I think this film is very well put together, giving a balanced look at the man, both from his point of view and the point of view of other people. This man was clearly insane, and we see that if this had been noticed earlier, lives would've been spared.
I have to say, at one point I did feel sorry for Ed Gein. Although I do not, in any way shape of form, condone what he did, this man was lonely, troubled and mentally ill. He had a bad childhood, full of death and pain, he idolised his mother (who was always nasty to him) and her death was the final straw. He felt like his world had collapsed around him. It got to the point where he even tried Vodoo to bring his mother back to life. Eventually he did, but it was all in his head.
A brutal look at a very troubled mind.
Naff!.......2006-03-09
This film is an accurate representation of Gein's life - sordid, squalid, grim and depressing. Not a fat lot happens, Gein is obviously disturbed but he's not your charismatic Hannibal Lector type. In fact he hardly utters a word throughout the film. Even gore hounds would be hard pushed to find anything of value in this film. Ed spends a lot of time brevitting about in graveyards, fiddling with bits of corpse and so on, but it's all a bit icky rather than horrifying or gorey.
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- Finding Forrester [2000]
- Funland
- Gia [1998] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
- Glory Road [2006]
- Guillermo Del Toro Collection (Pan's Labyrinth, Cronos, The Devil's Backbone) [2006]
- Hill Street Blues - Series 1
- Homicide - Season 1 [1993]
- I Am Sam [2002] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
- If These Walls Could Talk 2 [2000] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
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