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mik-youtube · 10 months

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Movie Maniacs Based On Real People

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hillside-dangler · 9 months

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The depths of Ed Gein's depravity sank beneath the morals of civilized society. His deranged thoughts fed a dark desire, that motivated him to commit unimaginable crimes.

What began as casual Friday night grave robbing soon turned into murder. Gein needed freshly deceased female bodies to create his Corpse-couture. In a town with only 503 residents, freshly deceased ladies were limited. As a result of these dry spells, Gein had no choice but to kill. The laborious task of perfecting his artistry gave Ed Geins' life a sense of purpose and connection.

Gein transformed the family home into a palace of death. He covered wastebaskets and chair seats in a patchwork of hand stitched human skin; Female skulls adorned his bedposts while others were sawn in half and used as bowls. A pair of lips made a window shade drawstring; A collection of noses which he saved for a rainy day and cutlery made from bones. Gein dressed his naked body in skin garments that symbolized female beauty. A corset made from freshly skinned torso empowered the once emasculated virgin. In his new skin lady Gein was born. He assumed the role of 'woman of the house'. Death made it possible for Ed Gein to connect to the world. He gave life to dead bodies by dressing in their skin. For the first time in his life, he felt a sense of power and control.

He worshipped and feared his dominant mother, a religious tyrant who condemned the young Gein as a sinner in his masculine form. After his mothers death, Gein was distraught. He lacked the strength and discipline to live in the world without his mothers control. Increasingly, he craved her feminine power.

Ed's farming upbringing gave him some useful skills in butchery. He'd also dabbled in taxidermy when other kids were playing sport. With his lazy eye, speech impediment and antisocial family, young Ed was regularly picked on at school.

The gruesome nature of Ed Gein's crimes not only captured the collective fear of the public but also created a blueprint for three of the most unattractive antagonists in American cinema history: Norman Bates in Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho" (1960) was directly inspired by Gein's overbearing relationship with his mother and his habit of dressing in women’s clothing. He kind've became the poster boy for psychopaths; Leatherface in “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre” (1974) wore the skin of his victims, but stuck to more traditional gender roles; Buffalo Bill in “The Silence of the Lambs” (1991) is a composite of several real-life murderers, including Gein.

Locals in small town Plainfield described Gein as a quiet man who may have been a little odd, but harmless. They regarded Gein as one of their own. He had dined at their tables and even babysat their children. But this was well before they knew about his fetish for pelt-belts.

The case of Ed Gein significantly contributed to Criminal Studies & Understanding of Psychopathy: Although Gein was not a diagnosed psychopath, his case has illuminated aspects of disturbed behavior, contributing to our understanding of mental disorders in the context of criminality. For instance, Gein's unhealthy relationship with his mother has influenced theories regarding the impact of familial relations on disturbing behavior. His obsession with female body parts also led specialists to understand more about fetishism and necrophilia.

Additionally, Ed Gein's case promoted the development of FBI's criminal profiling methods. Robert Ressler, a former FBI agent and one of the pioneers in this field, especially used Gein's case, among others, to understand the motivations and behavior of serial killers.

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Ed Gein-The Lost Tapes 2023

#true crime #serial killers #crime after crime #criminal investigations #documentary #Ed Gein #Psycho #macabre #horror #texas chainsaw massacre #silence of the lambs #leatherface

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weirdwisconsin · 9 months

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Upcoming Ed Gein docuseries from MGM+ promises "new reveals" and never-before-heard audio recordings.

#wisconsin #weird wisconsin #true crime #ed gein #documentary #wisco #horror

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donotdestroy · 7 months

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Ed Gein Biography

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genderoutlaws · 2 years

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🍁 November Outlaw Streams 🍂

Instead of doing a full media rec list this time I’m just going to be streaming double features throughout the month! 💛 We are going to be doing these streams on Zoom. Since I had to pay a subscription fee to make this available to more people I wouldn’t *mind* if a few of ya tossed me a dollar if you attend (not at all required or expected tho!)

All double features will start at 8PM EST, with a pre-show starting about half an hour beforehand.

November 6th - Hitchcock Homos

We will be streaming Rope (1948) and Psycho (1960) - two Hitchcock films featuring queer (coded) villains

Rope is an adaption of a 1929 stage play written by Patrick Hamilton, better known for his work Gaslight, and based upon the real life killing of Bobby Franks by two students in 1924 — though I’ve found nothing about a known relationship between the actual killers. The play explicitly features both main characters as gay, while the film remains a bit more subtextual. The homosexuality is still strikingly present for a film of it’s time, perhaps due in part to the story and screenplay being developed by two gay men, Hume Cronyn and Arthur Laurents, and Brandon being portrayed by gay actor John Dall in the film — perhaps due to it’s adherence to the Motion Picture Production Code, where queer themes remain tragic or villainous. I can’t go without saying how visually stunning this film is. Filmed to mimic the style of the original stage production, we are on one set for the entire duration, viewing the story in real time, with only four visible cuts in the entire runtime. It’s an absolute treat of gay-and-homophobic cinema. /// SUBTITLED

Psycho is the first of many films very loosely based on the crimes of real life grave-robber and killer Ed Gein, who was discovered to crossdress with the victims’ body parts. (Most films based on the events take extensive creative liberties.) While horror had been playing with queer themes for some time, Psycho launched a wave of Geinian gender transgression based horror films, indulging in public fears of transvestites and transsexual women as lurking manipulators and body snatchers in a long enduring conservative moral panic. This paired well with its depiction of dissociative behavior in the killer, capitalizing on transphobic and sanist stereotypes that entwined gender transgression and a fractured sense of self and/or reality. Just as complicated and problematic as Rope, and a classic cinematic delight all the same. /// SUBTITLED

November 13th - Leather Is Everything!

We will be streaming Cruising (1980) and Bloodsisters (1995) — fantasy and reality in the leather community

Cruising my contentious favorite! This film is about a kinky gay murderer picking off other kinky gay men, and an innocent heterosexual Al Pacino going undercover in the leather scene to solve the case. It’s camp. It’s cringe. It’s actually pretty decent. It was picketed by gay activists at the time, so extensively that the dialogue was largely dubbed over due to loud protesting drowning out the production’s audio. It also features gay people in the leather scene, many of them regulars of Mineshaft, who happily joined the cast as extras and background performers. But only the white, muscular ones allowed on screen. It’s a strange erotic fantasy in some ways and - perhaps accidentally - a surprisingly poignant reflection on gay life in others. /// SUBTITLED

Bloodsisters is a documentary surrounding the SM / Leather community in the San Francisco area during the 1990s. It features interviews with a variety of leatherdykes interspersed with footage of needleplay scenes, tit torture, fundraisers, leather titleholder contests, and impactplay demonstrations. It expounds on alternating sides of intra community debate, the reality of death and holding a life in your hands, isolation from the greater lesbian feminist community, roles, love, lust, fisting. And it is so fucking 90’s. /// NO SUBS :(

November 27th - #JustGirlyThings

We’ll be streaming Jawbreaker (1999) and Bodies Bodies Bodies (2022) — two modern horror comedies with sapphic overtones

I haven’t seen either of these yet and honestly know very little! I’ve heard the girlies are gay and murderous though and that’s enough for me. /// SUBTITLED

I’m so excited to watch these with y’all :o)

UPDATE : I am sadly going to have to cancel the last stream this month bc I really need to pick up another shift n make me some more money 😭 Im sorry guys I promise we’ll stream jawbreaker and bodies bodies bodies some time in the future ! </3

#monthly media recs #outlaw streams

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melodichaeuxx-lacritquexx · 2 years

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I realize that in order to explain slavery to white people, you have to speak to them in their white language (true crime documentary). And I realize it’s not all white people so please use your comprehension skills when reading this.

Your ancestors were Jeffery Dahmers and Ed Geins of their generation, before there was a Jeffery Dahmer or Ed Gein 🙃. There, does that help you realize that this shit isn’t “a long time ago” for us? That this isn’t something that we can just “get over”? If your obsessive need to reintroduce serial killers to the masses by giving them sympathetic villain-esq movies then I don’t wanna hear shit about black people talking about slavery and systematic racism too much. Let me give you a list of what these people have done:

Used our teeth for dentures

Used our hair to stuff furniture because the cotton they had us pick was too valuable

Used our skin as leather

Whipped, burned, lynched, dismembered us

Sexually assaulted us and forced us to have their mulatto children that they wouldn’t claim unless it was as property

Wrote us down as cattle/livestock and didn’t consider us as human

Put us in zoos or kidnapped us for circuses

Use us as medical and scientific experiments (I.e, Henrietta Lacks, Sara Bothem, the way women are expected to give birth on their backs)

You don’t even wanna know where the term motherfucker came from so don’t ask

Manipulate the system to work in their favor even though they like to blame us and other minorities for its failures

Steal our work

This list can go a lot longer than this but just know, this isn’t a game. This isn’t old news, this isn’t some flyby night movie that’ll have Twitter all ablaze until the next scandalous topic pops up. This is a generational curse.

#melodicheauxxo #slavery #jeffery dahmer #serial killers #white people smh #yt ppl #y’all need jesus #wake tf up

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tatelangdonsweater · 1 year

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It seems to me like Ryan Murphy is fascinated by true crime…

-AHS Murder House had lots of references to Elizabeth Short/the “Black Dahlia”, Tate appears to have been based on the Columbine shooters

-Bloody Face (AHS Asylum) seems to be based on Ed Gein

-Apparently the Louisiana Axeman in Coven actually existed? I didn’t know that until recently

-AHS Hotel: Devil’s Night episode featuring infamous serial killers, I heard that JPM was based on HH Holmes (don’t quote me on that, though) *edit: almost forgot about the mention of the chicken coop murders

-AHS Cult had real-life cult leaders appear in Kai’s hallucinations because he idolises them (Charles Manson, David Koresh, Jim Jones)

-I haven’t watched it yet, but AHS NYC is apparently based on a real life case (probably the Bag Murders?)

-There was an incident in Pose that was based on the murder of Venus Xtravaganza (link here if you don’t know her story) (sidenote: she appears in the documentary Paris is Burning, you can watch that here)

-And ofc there’s Dahmer.

Idrk where I was going with this, it’s just an interesting observation.

#american horror story #ryan murphy #dahmer #true crime #ahs murder house #ahs asylum #ahs coven #ahs hotel #ahs cult #ahs spoilers #I guess?#and as for ahs I’m only on season 8 so I’m curious to see what references there are in subsequent seasons #murder cw #sorry im hyperfixating #also this was pretty hastily made

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atthequillsmercy · 2 years

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Lenni Reviews: "Did You Hear What Eddie Gein Done?" by Harold Schechter & Eric Powell

Lenni Reviews: “Did You Hear What Eddie Gein Done?” by Harold Schechter & Eric Powell

(Image Source) This graphic novel starts from Ed Gein’s childhood and goes through his entire life and horrific crimes. The art style allows for realism and shows a bit of gore but remains as respectful as you can be talking about a guy who made skin suits and masks. This feels like watching a true crime documentary and I mean that in the best way. It not only goes through his life and crimes,…

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#book review #Book Reviews #books #comic review #Did You Hear What Eddie Gein Done #Ed Gein #Eric Powell #graphic history #graphic novel #graphic novel review #graphic novels #Harold Schechter #historical #review #reviews #serial killer

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world-cinema-research · 9 hours

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Week 7 Film Comparison

By Aiden McKinney

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre VS. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

Production Style/Conventionality

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974): arguably one of the best horror films ever made, definitely jump started the slasher genre and became an inspiration and blueprint for future horror films. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000); equally praised for being a masterful film that honestly qualifies for several genres (martial arts, foreign language, drama, romance and adventure/fantasy). The two films are twenty six years apart and are very different in terms of their production style and conventionality.

An independent film, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, is unconventional as Hollywood standards go. Writer/Director Tobe Hooper captured his audience by claiming the film was based on a true story. This is stated in the opening scene. However, this is only partially true. More accurately, it “draws inspiration from several real-life events, inspired by much of the violence featured on the news. Tobe Hooper specifically credits Ed Gein and Elmer Wayne Henley as the influence for Leatherface, and the true story of this serial killer is perhaps even more disturbing than The Texas Chainsaw Massacre itself” (Screenrant). Hooper then hired a handful of young, unknown actors who were willing to work long hours in the Texas summer heat for a mere $800 for four weeks. Using only handheld cameras, the cinematographer captured unusual angles, aerial views, and quick, in and out, cuts of extremely up close images. In one particular scene, the cinematographer followed an actress from underneath a bench swing. This angle was strongly opposed by the producer, but Hooper and cinematographer, Daniel Pearl, insisted it remain, and so it did. The shot, progressive and unconventional for 1974, became an influential cinematic camera shot. Film critic Roger Ebert was equally impressed with the outcome of this film. “Now here’s a grisly little item. “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre” is as violent and gruesome and blood-soaked as the title promises -- a real Grand Guignol of a movie. It’s also without any apparent purpose, unless the creation of disgust and fright is a purpose. And yet in its own way, the movie is some kind of weird, off-the-wall achievement. I can’t imagine why anyone would want to make a movie like this, and yet it’s well-made, well-acted, and all too effective.”

The following clip is outtakes from the making of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, where you can see the simplicity involved in making this iconic film.

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The film is presented in a documentary style. The opening scene features quick flashes of images of corpses in various stages of decomposition. Distance shots of the actors walking are almost voyeuristic in a sense. They give the audience a feeling that everything they are watching is real and the actors have no idea they are being watched, let alone filmed. The simplicity of the way this film was made only enhances the fear factor.

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The ongoing horror and violence of the Vietnam War was influential in the making of this film. Hooper made a direct correlation between violence against people and the effect it has on the human mind and spirit. Mental illness is evident in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, as it became a growing problem in 1970’s America.

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, released in 2000, was a blockbuster. After having huge success with Sense and Sensibility and The Ice Storm, director Ang Lee wanted to return to his roots and make a movie about China, for China. A martial arts, wuxia, action-adventure film, CTHD is a conventional film, by Hollywood standards. The protagonist has a goal. In this case, it could be argued that there are three protagonists who share the role. The main protagonist, Jen Yu, is the daughter of a rich family. Her main goal is to achieve freedom, so she runs away from home and an arranged marriage, to seek a life of adventure. She takes the audience on a thrill ride, all the while keeping her goal in sight. It’s a classic tale of good versus evil, with some fantastic fight sequences, and a little romance, too.

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Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon focuses on women warriors. This film showcases the societal gender roles bestowed upon women in early 19th century China. The women in this film challenge those roles, defying the limitations traditionally placed on them.

Film critic, Roger Ebert: “This story, like all martial arts stories, is at some level just plain silly, but Ang Lee ("The Ice Storm," "Sense and Sensibility") and his longtime collaborator James Schamus (who wrote the screenplay with Wang Hui Ling and Tsai Kuo Jung) are unusually successful in bringing out the human elements, especially the unrealized love between the Chow Yun-Fat and Michelle Yeoh characters. There are times when they're together that you forget about the swords, and are just watching a man and a woman, tenderly cherishing the unspoken bond between them. Zhang Ziyi's character, the governor's daughter, is also intriguing because she chafes at the rules that

limit her and realizes a secret fantasy life.”

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon does break tradition as far as typical “kung-fu” movies go. “It is much more. A fantastical martial arts romantic adventure, a lyrical, dream-like morality tale, Crouching Tiger combines the fast-paced action of the Hong Kong tradition with the emotional intensity of his earlier film, Sense and Sensibility, according to Lee” (asianstudies.org).

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qudachuk · 8 months

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A new documentary series, Psycho: The Lost Tapes of Ed Gein, gives viewers the chance to witness a new side to the famous killer.

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tvrundownusa · 8 months

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tvrundown USA 2023.10.01

Sunday, October 1st:

(exclusive & streaming): Crazy Fun Park (hulu, ghost teens, limited series, all 10 eps), The Gold (Para+), Behind Your Touch (netflix, season 1 finale), Django (netflix, 1872 Texas drama, all 10 eps), The Night Logan Woke Up (netflix, Quebecois thriller, all 5 eps)

(also new): "Mickey and Friends Trick or Treats" (disney|DXD, animated special), "Heist 88" (SHO, bank robbery drama, cable premiere, 90mins), "The Ringleader: The Case of the Bling Ring" (HBO, documentary, 95mins)

(original made-for-TV movies): "Adeline" (UPtv, 2hrs), "Secrets in the Desert" (LIFE, 2hrs+)

(earlier - hour 0): The Winter King (MGM+, marathon, first 5 hours), AFV: America's Funniest Videos (ABC, season 34 opener), Heartland (UPtv), 60 Minutes (CBS)

(hour 1): The Simpsons (FOX, season 35 opener) / . / Krapopolis (FOX, regular timeslot), Professor T (PBS, penultimate), Billions (SHO), The Chosen (theCW, 90mins), Yellowstone (CBS, 2hrs)

(hour 2): Bob's Burgers (FOX, season 14 opener) / . / Family Guy (FOX, season 22 opener), Unforgotten (PBS, penultimate), When Calls the Heart (HALL), TWD: Daryl Dixon (AMC|AMC+, ~70mins), Halloween Wars (FOOD), The Chosen (theCW, contd), Yellowstone (CBS, contd)

(hour 3): Big Brother (CBS), Van der Valk (PBS, penultimate), TWD: Daryl Dixon (AMC|AMC+, contd) / . / Ride with Norman Reedus (AMC|AMC+, season 6 finale), Outrageous Pumpkins (FOOD), "Psycho: The Lost Tapes of Ed Gein" (MGM+, part 3 of 4), Jack Osbourne's Night of Terror (Travel|MAX, paranormal & reality season 2 opener)

(hour 4 - latenight): Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO, season 10B opener, ~40mins)

#JohnOliver #XavierDolan #Krapopolis #TheSimpsons #BobsBurgers #FamilyGuy #JackOsbourne #LastWeekTonight #television

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emotionalsupportrp · 8 months

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“Ed Gein’s one of my favorite’s too. Never heard of Sagawa, but that’s pretty fucked.”

He smiles when he sees her laugh and looks at her phone when Jade and Jesse address him. He rolls his eyes when she gestured to her phone.

“Thanks. I can add that fucker to the list, if you’re serious,” he says as he slaps the top on their sandwiches and slides one across the counter to her before he sits.

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“Who are your other favorites?” I ask curiously. “I’ll gladly sit and watch true crime documentaries with you all day. I enjoy psychoanalyzing the shit out of everybody.” As if that wasn’t obvious by now.

“Dead serious,” Jesse says.

“You should kill her father, too,” Jade adds.

I frown while taking a bite out of my sandwich. “He’s getting fucking wet brain, I think that’s punishment enough,” I mutter.

“No, it’s not,” Jade and Jesse both say at the exact same time.

#dabi 🔥

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trendingnewsbite · 1 year

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‘Psycho: The Lost Tapes of Ed Gein’ True-Crime Docuseries Coming to MGM+

MGM+ has announced that a four-episode true-crime documentary based on the notorious killer Ed Gein will premiere on its streaming platform in September. Psycho: The Lost Tapes of Ed Gein is a docuseries directed and executive produced by James Buddy Day (Blumhouse’s Compendium of Horror) and follows the grave robber and serial killer Ed Gein, also known as “The Plainfield Ghoul” and “The Mad…

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jlblantonjr · 2 years

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Next up in review is Harold Schechter's Deviant. This is a short but compelling layout of the events that took place in Plainfield, WI. Schechter does a phenomenal job of laying the timeline of Ed Gein's life out to show just what created the psycho. The reader is also treated to a bit of over the top narration that sort of makes you feel as if you were listening to a cheesy true crime documentary. If you are looking to know more about Edward Gein or if you are just want a quick brush up on every horror that stuck the town of Plainfield, then this book is the perfect read for you. 8.5 Ghostfaces out of 10!

#booksbooksbooks #bookclub #creative writing #book reactions #book review #killer #horror #suspence #bookshelf #reviews #reactions #writing #books #book blog #truecrime

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bluudstainbarbie · 3 years

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For educational purposes:

The photos above show what Ed Gein did after he had robbed graves + his 2 victims. He made items out of their skin and bones such as belts, candles, bowls, lamps, gloves, masks, and even a woman suit.

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johndoe-lesbo · 4 years

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My relationship with true crime in a nutshell

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