If \u201cMonster: The Ed Gein Story\u201d is anything like previous entries in the franchise, it will likely stir up new interest in the subject matter.<\/p>\n
Gein has been a major inspiration for a number of major films and TV shows. The infamous killer was known for graverobbing from cemeteries and using the skin from the bodies to make suits, masks, lampshades and more. Those horrific acts were bound to draw Hollywood\u2019s eye eventually.<\/p>\n
More from TheWrap<\/strong><\/p>\n Below are 5 horror films and TV shows that were inspired by Gein and his dark deeds.<\/p>\n Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins in \u201cThe Silence of the Lambs\u201d (Orion Pictures)<\/p>\n Ed Gein served as the primary inspiration for Buffalo Bill in \u201cThe Silence of the Lambs.\u201d Buffalo Bill is as close to a one-to-one comp that you could get without just making the character the real person. From the skin lamps to the flesh suits, Gein\u2019s inspiration is all over the film, which helped ignite new interest in the real killer.<\/p>\n \u201cPsycho\u201d (Paramount Pictures)<\/p>\n Ed Gein and his mother had a problematic relationship that was famously reflected in Alfred Hitchcock\u2019s \u201cPsycho.\u201d Gein both feared and loved his mom, and it was after her death that he began to fashion his \u201cmother suit\u201d from the bodies he exhumed from graveyards. Norman Bates also struggled with his feelings toward his mother, which led to his own killings in the film.<\/p>\n Likewise, both Gein\u2019s home and the infamous Bates Motel became horror houses of sorts for how the real and fictional men stored and hid their crimes.<\/p>\n Vortex<\/p>\n \u201cThe Texas Chainsaw Massacre\u201d director Tobe Hooper was directly inspired by Ed Gein and his crimes. With a villain called Leatherface, some of that inspiration is pretty obvious. Gein made skin suits and masks from the bodies he exhumed from graveyards and Leatherface also wears the skin of his victims as masks.<\/p>\n Gein might not have used a chainsaw on those he killed, but he did hang bodies he acquired on hooks, much like Leatherface does in the various \u201cTexas Chainsaw Massacre\u201d films.<\/p>\n American International Pictures<\/p>\n \u201cDeranged\u201d has all the usual inspirations for a film loosely based on Ed Gein \u2013 a man overly obsessed with his mother who falls to killing and grave robbing in the wake of her death. The skin suits follow, the lamp shades and jars of nipples are there. But what \u201cDeranged\u201d gets better than many others is the sense of place.<\/p>\n Gein killed in Wisconsin and lived in a rural, out-of-the-way home that added to the creepy appeal of a home full of skin suits. \u201cDeranged\u201d nails that unsettling feeling.<\/p>\n \u201cAmerican Horror Story: Asylum\u201d (Credit: FX)<\/p>\n There could have been lots of ways \u201cAmerican Horror Story\u201d could have adapted an Ed Gein storyline into the series. The opportunity presented itself in \u201cAmerican Horror Story: Asylum\u201d through Zachary Quinto\u2019s character Dr. Oliver Thredson.<\/p>\n Thredson blends two ends of \u201cThe Silence of the Lambs\u201d in both Hannibal Lecter and Buffalo Bill \u2013 and by proxy Ed Gein. 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Psycho<\/h2>\n
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