Go inside the demented mind of Ed Gein with this biopic of the legendary serial killer. Before inspiring the horrors of movies like Silence of the Lambs, Psycho and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Gein's own life was filled with mutilation and murder.
OK, I figured with this subject matter and horror icons like Kane Hodder (Jason in various Friday the 13th films) and Michael Berryman (The Devil's Rejects, The Hills Have Eyes), this would be a good horror film at the very least. I was wrong. It pretty much blows on all accounts.
Factually, it's just not accurate at all. It's almost like they just took a few parts of the real life Ed Gein's twisted story and added some ridiculous boring drama of their own with it. Kane Hodder seems too imposing to play this part also. In real life Gein was a average, unassuming man I've read. Kane is huge. You'd also think with the sick subject matter they had to work with that this would be loaded with gore, but it's not. It's mostly shot dark during scenes where there's blood and guts. There's some gore, but reading a real life account of Ed Gein is much more gross than anything they even attempted.
The biggest thing I think they missed was that they spend no time at all really letting us know what makes Gein tick, how he got like he was, and why he did the things he did. They spend much more time on other made-up, one-dimensional characters for some reason than the subject of the film.
A sad attempt at telling the sick story of a psychopath. If you want to learn about him, your time is much better spent reading his Wikipedia entry than watching this film.
3/10
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