Ed Gein may have been the inspiration for "Psycho" and "The Texas Chain saw Massacre", but on his own he is not interesting enough to be the centerpiece of a film. What was shocking about his crimes is that they happened in a relatively peaceful community and that he was considered by most to be a harmless person, if not a little strange. This film decides not to show that perspective of the story, rather we are told the story through the point of view of Ed. The biggest failure of the movie is that the film makers don't seem to have any idea as to what made Ed Gein tick. We are simply shown that he had an overbearing mother and that her death affected him in a negative way. The film is more interested in the grave robbing and murders and less interested in the underlying motivation. I will go easy on the actors in the movie, I think that they do as well as they can with the material they are provided. Many scenes in the film were probably conceptual nightmares for any intelligent actor. But the main reason why the film doesn't work is because the film makers decided that Ed would make a good protagonist and if this is the case who do they suppose would be the antagonists, the people that he killed?
