Jeffrey Dahmer And Ed Gein: Movie Analysis

Guts, and gore and cannibalism is left for the movies, right? While most horror films are made of up from the extensive imagination and dark corners of the mind, not all are fully fiction. It is said that the average person walks past a murder thirty-six times in their life. How often is it that one of those murders you walk past just happens to be a cannibal or inspire many famous horror films. Jeffrey Dahmer, “The Milwaukee Cannibal,” and Ed Gein, “The Real Leatherface,” put a new definition to the word horror. The acts of these men are not only famously talked about throughout the country today, but they inspired the brain-child of some of the biggest names in horror.
Jeffrey Dahmer and Ed Gein are two well-known serial killers and cannibals
Christopher Lehmann-Haupt wrote an article for New York Times called “Norman Bates, His Mom, and That Fatal Shower,” describing the cinematic significance of that famous shower scene. Lehmann-Haupt explains in his article that Janet Leigh, the actress who played the lead character of Marion Crane, has written a book on Hitchcock’s Psycho, describing behind the scenes of the film and how Hitchcock took the idea from Ed Gein and made him a more attractive protagonist. In Leigh’s book, she discusses how she was indeed the first actress picked to play the role of Marion Crane and a lot of manipulation went down between her, the director, and Hitchcock (Lehmann-Haupt.) Hitchcock convinced her that she was central to the story when really, Marion Crane dies fairly early on in the film. Lehmann-Haupt also talks about what the famous shower scene was like for Leigh. Leigh explains that it was not that she was terrified to take a shower after the film, but that it was more of the tedious process she went through to perfect the scene. It took seven days to shoot the famous scene and acting dead while water is trickling down the face is not an easy