Was 'The Texas Chainsaw Massacre' About Ed Gein? It Isn't a True Story

Ed Gein was known partially for his fascination with human skin, but was 'The Texas Chainsaw Massacre' in accordance with him? Is it even a true story?

Over the years, some horror enthusiasts have gotten the speculation into their heads that serial killer Ed Gein was the individual on which Leatherface from The Texas Chainsaw Massacre was based. They without a doubt share some key characteristics, like an affinity for human pores and skin (both on and off the frame) and a penchant for killing blameless people.

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But at its core, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is natural fiction. At the time of its preliminary 1974 unlock date, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre was advertised as being according to true events. However, the story of Leatherface — a human pores and skin mask-wearing, chainsaw-wielding killer with no transparent cause or reason in the back of his rampage — is all made up.

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Was 'The Texas Chainsaw Massacre' in keeping with Ed Gein in any respect?

Although Leatherface by no means existed outside of the movie and the sequels and remakes that got here after it, he was based totally partly on real-life serial killer Ed Gein. Like Leatherface, Gein's calling card was human skin and bones. In fact, when government eventually raided his home, they found a wastebasket fabricated from human pores and skin, skulls in his bedroom used as ornament, and a belt made from human nipples, amongst other things.

However, not like Leatherface, Gein mentioned time and again that he didn't devour his victims. That was one aspect of his development of mutilation that was transparent to many. Whereas the fictional Leatherface would kill and cook dinner his sufferers, Gein was identified to homicide and rob graves to take away skin and bones from recently deceased other folks. The fascination with human pores and skin is where the similarities between Gein and Leatherface end.

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But Gein had a recognition for inspiring a wide variety of nefarious psychopaths in pop culture, like Buffalo Bill from The Silence of the Lambs. The fictional persona and Gein shared a love of maintaining trophies in the form of human skin and bones. Norman Bates from Psycho was additionally in part based on Gein. The undeniable fact that he saved his mom's rotting corpse in his home lengthy after her dying provides them a connection through being unafraid of closeness with lifeless our bodies.

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Did Ed Gein use a chainsaw?

One of essentially the most distinguished connections people have made over time in regard to movies the use of Gein as inspiration is The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. But, in truth, Gein by no means even used a chainsaw on his sufferers. Many of the folk whose bodies he mutilated and skinned have been from graveyards. When he did attack dwelling folks, Gein used a gun fairly than a chainsaw.

In 1954, Gein used a gun to kill a barkeeper, then introduced her frame to his house, possibly to dissect her. He later killed a cashier at a local ironmongery store. While it is assumed that Gein murdered others all through his energetic years, he simplest ever admitted to those two particular cases. They were sufficient to convict him, alternatively. And till his 1984 demise, Gein spent his final years in a mental establishment.

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