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Ed Gein (In the light of the moon)

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The truth is more terrifying.

The time was the late 50s. The place was Plainfield, Wisconsin USA. Not much ever happened in this quiet town of 642 people...

Until the population dropped to 641.

Ed Gein (Steve Railsback) is a simple man who wants was to lead a simple life on his family's farm. But the farm is remote, the family is gone, the crops perished long ago. And the ghosts of Ed's past are coming back to haunt him.

Ed's only companion in life was his domineering mother Augusta (Carrie Snodgress) and she loved Ed to a fault. She did her best to raise him as an upstanding Christian, with daily bible readings and the occasional lash of her belt. But dear Augusta died a few years back... and Ed will never be the same. Because Ed always did have peculiar interests. Reincarnation. Head-shrinking. Cannibalism. And the wonderful world of female anatomy.

Soon, Ed is doing something about it. The freshly buried bodies of Plainfield's dead women are starting to disappear.

Ed spends his evenings in the local cemetery, then burns the midnight oil back at the farm. Folks in Plainfield may think Ed is a bit simple-minded but he's actually very creative. With the help of Grey's Anatomy, Ed is making his own housewares: a lampshade here, a soup bowl there. He's especially proud of the skin suit he wears on special occasions.

Now, though, Augusta's ghost is getting louder. She doesn't like the look of that oversexed barmaid Mary Hogan (Sally Champlin). That snooty storeowner Colette Marshall (Carol Mansell) will also have to go. And Ed is just getting started. "I will show unto thee the judgment of the great whore," commands Augusta - and who is Ed to argue? After all, he loves his work.

This is the story that inspired Psycho, The Texas chainsaw massacre and The silence of the lambs - but the truth is even more terrifying.

You've never met anyone like Ed. You've never seen a film like Ed Gein.

Also starring Ryan Thomas Brockington as Ed at 16, Austin James Peck as Ed at 10, Bill Cross as George Gein, Brian Evers as Henry Gein, Rick Simpson as Henry aged 20, Luke Rowland as Henry aged 14, Travis McKenna as Ronnie, Nancy Linehan Charles as Eleanor, Jan Hoag as Irene Hill, Craig Zimmerman as Pete Anderson and Lee McLaughlin as Warren Hill. Written by Stephen Johnston, directed by Chuck parello.

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Theatrical report

Boring.

Ed Gein is an unofficial, bad remake of Psycho (just like the official remake of Psycho). I couldn't even watch it through to the end. The only reason it scored so high was because some of the acting was really good. Wasted, but good.