Ed Gein

By day, Ed Gein was a quiet man who kept watch over the farm left to him by his late mother in Plainfield, a small rural community in Wisconsin. But by night, Gein was one of the most bizarre and dangerous psychopaths in recorded history. Raised by a violent alcoholic father and a mother with an ...more

If Texas-born Steve Railsback doesn't quite have the right accent to evoke rural Wisconsin, director Chuck Parello and production designer Mark Harper surround him with such visual verisimilitude that Railsback's performance is convincing anyway. The problem with the authenticity here is that the filmmakers have managed to authentically capture the dull, boring parts of life in 1950s rural Wisconsin. Ed Gein is so under-the-top that what should be compelling merely becomes unpleasant. Given that ...more