Ed Gein: The Original Psycho. Any Hitchcock fans in the house?

[Tuesday Afternoon]

Edward Theodore "Ed" Gein (/ˈɡiːn/; August 27, 1906[1] – July 26, 1984) was an American murderer and body snatcher. His crimes, committed around his hometown of Plainfield, Wisconsin, gathered widespread notoriety after authorities discovered Gein had exhumed corpses from local graveyards and fashioned trophies and keepsakes from their bones and skin. Gein confessed to killing two women – tavern owner Mary Hogan on December 8, 1954, and a Plainfield hardware store owner, Bernice Worden, on November 16, 1957. Initially found unfit for trial, after confinement in a mental health facility he was tried in 1968 for the murder of Worden and sentenced to life imprisonment, which he spent in a mental hospital.

His case influenced the creation of several fictional killers, including Norman Bates of the movie and novel Psycho and its sequels, Leatherface of the movie The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Jame Gumb of the novel The Silence of the Lambs, and Bloody Face of the TV show American Horror Story: Asylum.

more at link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Gein

There are currently two films out about Alfred Hitchcock. One focuses on the making of the Birds w/ Tippi Hedren and the other one focuses on the filming of Psycho w/ Janet Leigh and Vera Miles.

Hitchcock

Stars: Anthony Hopkins, Helen Mirren, Scarlett Johansson |

A love story between influential filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock and wife Alma Reville during the filming of Psycho in 1959.
In 1959, Alfred Hitchcock and his wife, Alma, are at the top of their creative game as filmmakers amid disquieting insinuations about it being time to retire. To recapture his youth's artistic daring, Alfred decides his next film will adapt the lurid horror novel, Psycho, over everyone's misgivings. Unfortunately, as Alfred self-finances and labors on this film, Alma finally loses patience with his roving eye and controlling habits with his actresses. When an ambitious friend lures her to collaborate on a work of their own, the resulting marital tension colors Alfred's work even as the novel's inspiration haunts his dreams. Written by Kenneth Chisholm

more at link:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0975645/?ref_=sr_1

and then there is

The Girl

Stars: Sienna Miller, Toby Jones, Imelda Staunton

The turbulent relationship between filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock and actress Tippi Hedren. When Grace Kelly retires from films to marry Prince Rainier Alfred Hitchcock looks for a similar blonde and finds her in TV model,the little known Tippi Hedren,who will star in his film adaptation of horror story 'The Birds'. Hitchcock is obsessed with Tippi sexually and,when she rebuffs his advances,sadistically puts her through five days of filming where she is attacked and injured by real birds. Hitchcock's wife Alma and his assistant Peggy are appalled but can do nothing. Tippi is resolved that she will not give in to Hitchcock despite the situation giving her nightmares. Hitchcock and Tippi make a second film,'Marnie'. Having admitted that Alma is the only woman he has ever had sex with and that he now finds her cold Hitchcock continues to pursue Tippi, bombarding her with phone calls declaring his love for her yet reminding her that he alone made her famous and she owes him. At this stage Tippi demands that her contract be terminated and an end title states that they never ...

more at link:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2132485/

[edbermac]

1. I had a book on Gein.

Which had uncensored pics of his last victim. I think some are on the web, so look at your own risk.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

2. no need but, thanks

I have done my share of work with cadavers

[NYC_SKP]

3. Ed was a collector.

Ed Gein’s inventory of fleshy treasures around the farmhouse included:

Four noses
Whole human bones and fragments
Nine masks of human skin
Bowls made from human skulls
Ten female heads with the tops sawn off
Human skin covering several chair seats
Nine vaginas in a shoe box
A belt made from female human nipples
Skulls on his bedposts
A pair of lips on a drawstring for a window shade
A lampshade made from the skin from a human face

[RebelOne]

4. Remember the movie Psycho well.

Made me afraid to get into the shower alone.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

5. yeah, me too!

[Eleanors38]

8. The preview (trailer) for Psycho is one of the best ever.

[nolabear]

6. Wonderful film, except they wussed out on the ending.

The book's was too much for the times.

But Hitchcock is one of those fascinating, awful geniuses, like Truman Capote, that are just fascinating. And you wouldn't want to be on his list.

[edbermac]

7. Wussed out on the end??

Creepiest ending to a film I have ever seen.