Behind The Horror - The Horrifying True Story Of Ed Gein

The Silence of the Lambs, Psycho, and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre are all iconic horror movies in their own right. But there is one thing which connects each of these movies in a horrifying way - a man known to be one of the most notorious killers in all of American history.

On November 16th 1957, police entered a home in search of a local missing woman and found what can only be described as a literal house of horrors. A home belonging to a killer so brutal he was dubbed The Butcher of Plainfield, who spent a decade killing and collecting human body parts. Buffalo Bill and Leatherface have serious issues with human flesh, and Norman Bates harbours a crazed obsession with his mother, but their real-life inspiration is a true horror of these parts.

Let's take a look as we go Behind the Horror with the Butcher of Painfield himself: Ed Gein.