Ed Gein - The Wisconsin Serial Killer

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Movie
German title Ed Gein - The Wisconsin Serial Killer
Original title In the Light of the Moon
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2000
length approx. 85 minutes
Age rating FSK 18
Rod
Director Chuck Parello
script Stephen Johnston
production Mark Boot , Bill Cross , Hamish McAlpine , Michael Muscal
music Robert McNaughton
camera Kathleen Farry
cut Elena Maganini
occupation

Ed Gein - The Wisconsin Serial Killer is an American thriller from 2000 based on real life.

action

Wisconsin in the late 1950s: Ed Gein's life spins out of control following the death of his religiously dominant mother. He himself says that everything just looks like a dream, nothing real. His father's death was less of a problem, on the contrary. At the father's grave he asks his crying mother why she wasted tears on the deceased husband and father. Likewise with his brother, whom he murdered during a hunting trip. At night he digs graves in the local cemetery and tries to bring the dead back to life. He also collects body parts that he tries on again and again. He can't bear that his mother is no longer with him. He himself says that he would become lonely if he continued to live in the large estate on the farm. But the attempt to generously swap the run-down farm for a smaller house fails. Ed Gein often seems disturbed, says things that appear strange to other people and yet hardly anyone suspects what the rather shy man is actually capable of. There are three shrunken heads on the door of his bedroom, he reads books about so-called headhunters and on the wall hang neatly separated faces of seemingly strangers. He believes that his mother gives him assignments that he should fulfill in God's mind - the punishment of those who sin in the eyes of the mother. One day he shoots the bar owner Mary Hogan down and kidnaps her to his home. There she succumbs to her injuries and is dismantled by him. When he shoots and kidnaps the shopkeeper Colette Marshall, Sheriff Jim Stillwell becomes suspicious and finally finds the horribly battered bodies of the two women in Gein's basement. He is arrested at a family friend's house, declared insane, and died of natural causes in 1984.

background

The film tells the story of the famous serial killer Ed Gein , who killed at least two women, desecrated graves and made clothes, seat covers and face masks from dried skin from body parts. When police checked Gein's farmhouse, they found an eviscerated body as well as parts of various other corpses (at least 15), including a collection of noses, female genital organs and face masks. It has been proven that he murdered at least two of the women. Gein dug up the remaining women in cemeteries and mutilated them. A heart was found in a pan on the stove. Whether he was actually a cannibal, however, remained unclear. Ed Gein was arrested and confessed to two murders. However, since he was found to be innocent, he was transferred to the Central State Hospital in Waupun, Wisconsin , where he died of cancer on July 26, 1984.

criticism

"" Psychological thriller based on an authentic case that, among other things, inspired Hitchcock's 'Psycho'. The cinematic implementation lags behind many of its predecessors, but at least the production tries to create a dense, gloomy atmosphere. ""

- Two thousand and one film dictionary

Awards

  • Fantafestival 2001
    • Best Actor: Steve Railsback
    • Best actress: Sally Champlin
  • Fantasy postage 2001
    • Nominated for the International Fantasy Film Award for Best Film
  • Sitges - Catalan International Film Festival 2000
    • Best Actor: Steve Railsback
    • Best movie

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Two thousand and one film dictionary