Ed Gein & his cultural legacy
Movies inspired by Ed Gein & Psycho

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Jack the Ripper, Crippen, & Christie

Ed Gein, released 2000. Also known as In the Light of the Moon
Steve Railsback as Gein. Railsback also played Charles Manson in the TV movie Helter Skelter.

Deranged, 1974, closely based on the story of Ed Gein.
Blood Feast, 1963, an early Psycho-influenced low-budget movie
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, 1974, directed by Tobe Hooper; remade in 2003.
Halloween, 1978, directed by John Carpenter, earliest of the slasher movie series, with several sequels. A main character in the original Halloween is named Dr. Sam Loomis after a character in Hitchcock's Psycho.
Friday the 13th, 1980,
with several sequels
Jason Voorhees, the Friday
the 13th
slasher
A Nightmare on Elm Street, 1984, directed
by Wes Craven, with multiple sequels
Robert Englund as Freddy Krueger, the Nightmare on Elm Street.

Scary Movie, 2000, directed by Keenen Ivory Wayans, a parody of the slasher genre, which also spawned sequels.
The Silence of the Lambs, 1991, directed by Jonathan Demme, an artful slasher movie that won multiple Academy Awards.
Ted Levine as Buffalo Bill in Silence of the Lambs, a character directly descended from Ed Gein and Norman Bates.
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