Texas Chainsaw Massacre

[Pugaciov]

M'è venuta l'ispirazione leggendo di gik25 che deve fare la recensione del film
No, non parlo del tiitolo originale del film Non Aprite Quella Porta (film come tutti gli altri secondo me, niente di speciale), ma della
storia vera
voi ne sapete qualcosa
ecco un post tratto da Movieforums

The Real story behind The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

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The movie is literally based on a man named Ed Gein.

Before serial killing became a fashionable hobby, Ed Gein was doing terrible things to women in Wisconsin in the Fifties. Usually they were dead and he stole their bodies from the grave, but occasionally, when his mother told him, "It's time for you to do the Lord's work," they were alive. By then, his mother was also dead, which made it doubly weird.

It's important also to point out that Gein was the inspiration for Psycho, Deranged and The Silence of the Lambs. Ed adored his mother and she filled his young mind with images of Old Testament damnation and after she died, when he was 39, he became increasingly reclusive and strange. He would flay the flesh of unresurrected corpses and use the skin to make lampshades and chair covers and clothes.

He lived alone in a farmhouse, reading books on the female anatomy, Nazi war crimes and Polynesian head-shrinkers. The place was filled with macabre momentoes and junk. He ate tinned pork-and-beans and human body parts. He would go to the bar in the little town of Plainfield, where the locals made fun of him, and occasionally to a neighbour's house to watch TV and play draughts. His shyness with women was acute.

Living in a rural community during the Eisenhower era, when life was slow and easy with infinite care, he was a man tormented by visions caught between the need to bring the dead back to life, and do his mother's bidding. He is neither vicious, nor intimidating, rather sad and gentle. The madness that drives him belongs in another place.

Ed's mother controlled her children with an iron will. Religious mania clouded her judgement. She would save her boys from the wickedness of the world and destroy sin through the instrument of her second son, as Jehovah did at Sodom and Gomorrah. After her death, when she appears to Ed, she has become a figure of nightmares.

By day, Ed Gein was a quiet man who kept watch over the farm ,but by night, Gein was one of the most bizarre and dangerous psychopaths in recorded history. Raised by a violent alcoholic father and the mother (mentioned above) with an obsessive fear of sin and hatred of sex, Gein had very few friends, and after the death of his parents, Gein was left to his own devices on the family farm (where, under a government subsidy program, he was paid not to grow crops), and his unhealthy obsessions eventually became ugly realities. Gein's crimes included murder, necrophilia, cannibalism, and grave robbing, with Gein using the flesh and bones of his victims to construct household objects, including a suit and mask made from human skin that Gein used when he wanted to dress up as a woman (it's been suggested that some of Gein's crimes stemmed from a twisted attempt to deal with his desire to change his gender). In 1957, two murders committed by Gein attracted the attention of the police, leading to Gein's arrest; near the end of that year, he was declared criminally insane and was committed for life to Wisconsin's Waupan State Hospital, where he stayed until his death in 1984.


Beh, ragazzi se è tutto vero i film (l'ultimo e quelli più vecchi) sono da guardare sotto un'altro aspetto

[spoonman]

si ma la storia di Ed Gein è un bel po' diversa da quella del film.

e poi la storia di Ed Gein ha influenzato anche molto altri romanzi come psycho e silence of the lambs

ovvero... tutto è vagamente tratto dalla storia di Ed Gein.

se volete vedere un film SU Ed Gein, ne è uscito uno abbastanza squallido nel 2001, diretto da Chuck Parello. dovrebbe anche trovarsi (ma non è facile) in dvd doppiato in italiano.