MTW Casefiles: Ed Gein at the Box Office

It’s Halloween… which means lots of you will be locking into horror films this week. But how many popular horror films took grotesque inspiration from the disturbing case of Ed Gein?

We’re looking at Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho, Jonathan Demme’s Silence of the Lambs, and Tobe Hooper’s Texas Chainsaw Massacre. As well as a strange comedy starring Miriam Margolys and Steve Buscemi.

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