Serial killer. Grave robber. Psychopath.
In the frozen fields of 1950s Wisconsin, on a decaying farm, lived a quiet, polite recluse named Ed Gein. Inside his home, however, he concealed horrors so grotesque they redefined the American nightmare. Isolated, delusional, and consumed by an overwhelming obsession with his mother, Gein committed depraved crimes that created a new kind of monster—one that would haunt Hollywood for decades.
From Psycho to The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and The Silence of the Lambs, Gein’s grim legacy inspired fictional killers molded in his image and sparked a cultural fascination with deviant murderers. Ed Gein didn’t just influence the genre—he became the blueprint for modern horror.