texas chainsaw massacre the truth

[fluffho]

you guys forgot nipple belt!

....ya bastad....

[allmykids]

I see you read the same thing i read!! I did forget the nipple belt!!;)

[Nate]

Originally posted by devlspaintbrush
Was Ed Gein made up?? Nope

Did he use a chainsaw?? Nope

Did he kill in Texas?? Nope

Was his family involved?? Nope

Did he kill a bunch of people?? Nope (killed 2)

Did he wear a mask made from human skin?? Yup

Did he have furniture made from skeletons?? Yup

Ed Gein admitted to killing 2,but there were more and there sure he killed atleast 5 more.Id be willing to bet he killed atleast 20.There were alot of body parts that werent related to his grave digging that were still fresh like he just killed them so i guarentee you ita way more then 2 bud.

[allmykids]

I think he killed more too!! Like his brother!!

[LegionFilms]

I thought it was confirmed he killed his sibling

[allmykids]

Originally posted by LegionFilms
I thought it was confirmed he killed his sibling

NO it was not confirmed. After ed was busted they speculated that he more than likely did but theres no proof!

To add some more gasoline to this smoldering fire, I can say that I am pretty knowledgeable of Ed Gein, having read a couple of books about the guy. Here is a direct quote from one of them. Items in parenthesis were added by me.

Since the movie's (TCM) release, it's been an assumed wisdom that the Wisconsin woman-skinner was their main inspiration, especially as the publicity material purported the basic story to be true. Henkel (who co-wrote TCM with Hooper), however, has thrown doubt on this; he claims Hooper and he had never heard of our man Eddie til after the movie's release, the unsavory details that seem drawn from his life being some kind of Jungian coincidence...Director Hooper, for his part, claims primary inspiration from a group of his fellow Texans flocking around the chain-saw section in a department store.

from "Ed Gein: Psycho" by Paul Anthony Woods, 1995, St. Martin's Press, New York.

[LegionFilms]

I read that Hooper was in a dept store during the holiday season, and was standing next to the chainsaws and thought to himself, that a chainsaw would be a good way to get through people. That's how the chainsaw idea spawned (like you said) but I think I remember Henkel & Hooper saying the set was inspired by Gein (the bone room for example).

just to let everyone know.
there were real chainsaw murders in texas, and other places.
no the movie was not based off these murders.
there was a real person named ed gein and the movies are loosely based of him.
i mean very loosely.the part were he takes the faces is based on him but not for the same reason. ed took the faces and other body parts to wear so he looked like a woman.
people think the chainsaw murders inspired the movie, but it didn't.

[Bastet]

I thought it was based on Albert Fish?