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Texas Chainsaw Massacre - Eddie - 11-08-2004
I was just kind of summarizing everything up a little bit, but yeah, there was a little bit more going on than just skinning corpses for sure. It was actually kind of schocking in the documentary on the TCM \'03 DVD where they talk about what he did.
EDIT:
He was not a cannibal, though.
Eddie
Texas Chainsaw Massacre - jonl - 11-08-2004
I saw the remake
Texas Chainsaw Massacre - jonl - 11-08-2004
Wow LEwis you know alot on this, thanks dude
Texas Chainsaw Massacre - Eddie - 11-08-2004
TCM is a great movie though. I love it.
Eddie
Texas Chainsaw Massacre - fiend52 - 11-08-2004
i think the original was far more scarier. it was a lot more psychologically terrorizing in a way. sure the remake was good but it just didn\'t have that same feeling.
Texas Chainsaw Massacre - JV666 - 11-08-2004
Dude you should see the original... It blows it away.
Here\'s some stuff from Crime Library about Gein/LF:
In 1974, the classic thriller by Tobe Hooper, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, has many Geinian touches, although there is no character that is an exact Eddie Gein model. This movie helped put "Ghastly Gein" back in the spotlight in the mid-1970\'s.
And here\'s a really cool link...
[url=\"http://www.chasingthefrog.com/reelfaces/texaschainsaw.php\"]http://www.chasingthefrog.com/reelfaces/texaschainsaw.php[/url]
Gives info on who killers in movies are based on, and that page shows the Gein/LF relationship.
Texas Chainsaw Massacre - Lewis Tully - 11-08-2004
The original to me felt like a documentary the entire time I watched it. I think that this is why I was so moved, and disturbed by it the first time I watched it. It felt like it was real... The first time I watched it, I HATED it, I thought it was disturbing, and disgusting, and I HATED it, but the more I thought about it, the more impressed I was with the filmmaker\'s ability to make me THAT disgusted, and THAT disturbed... After that, I was hooked...
I could have sworn Ed Gien ate some of his victims... Maybe I\'m getting him mixed up with Dahmer... I think I am confusing the two... That\'s the most ironic part, that comparatively, Ed Gien only killed two people, and yet he\'s up there with Manson, Bundy, Dahmer, Gacy, the big names in serial killing. Very interesting stuff... If I didn\'t get queasy at the sight of real blood, I would be a phorensic pathologist in an instant. But, alas, I like my blood from a bottle, not from a body, so a simple horror fan I shall remain.
Take care, all!!!
JCG
Texas Chainsaw Massacre - JV666 - 11-08-2004
I think he\'s up there with Gacy and them is because he was just so odd...
Texas Chainsaw Massacre - Lewis Tully - 11-08-2004
Definitely, he was a freak, but I mean, I suppose, in terms of "Body Count" he wasn\'t that prolific. He was a freak, but from what I have read, he was always very polite, and kind... Just a very, very disturbed man...
JCG
Texas Chainsaw Massacre - fiend52 - 11-08-2004
was Gacy the one who dressed up as a clown and baried kids under his house?