Texas Chainsaw Massacre

[Eddie]

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

[jonl]

I saw the remake

[jonl]

Wow LEwis you know alot on this, thanks dude

[Eddie]

TCM is a great movie though. I love it.

Eddie

[🪦 fiend52 ●]

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.

[🪦 JV666 ●]

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.

[🪦 Lewis Tully ●]

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

[🪦 JV666 ●]

I think he\'s up there with Gacy and them is because he was just so odd...

[🪦 Lewis Tully ●]

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

[🪦 fiend52 ●]

was Gacy the one who dressed up as a clown and baried kids under his house?