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Ed Gein - From Plainfield to Hollywood: The Birth of Modern Horror

Ed Gein - From Plainfield to Hollywood: The Birth of Modern Horror

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Episode one explores how Ed Gein's crimes inspired three landmark horror films that changed cinema forever. It traces Robert Bloch's transformation of Gein into Norman Bates for Psycho, examining Hitchcock's revolutionary 1960 film that birthed psychological horror. The episode analyzes Tobe Hooper's Texas Chain Saw Massacre, which took Gein's farmhouse horror and created visceral, documentary-style terror. Finally, it examines Thomas Harris's Buffalo Bill in The Silence of the Lambs, where Gein's woman suit achieved mainstream acceptance and Academy Award prestige. These three films across three decades transformed Ed Gein from Wisconsin criminal into Hollywood's template for modern terror, establishing psychological horror, backwoods horror, and prestige horror genres.
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