Cinema of the Damned
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Psycho: The Lost Tapes of Ed GeinSeries
›TV-MA2023 · Documentary, Crime · 1 season · Deanna Mae Lloyd, Ed Gein, Henry Zebrowski
Follows the horrifying grave robber and serial killer Ed Gein, whose crimes inspired such iconic films as "Psycho", "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre", and "The Silence of the Lambs".
Motel Hell
›R1980 · Comedy, Horror · 102m · Rory Calhoun, Paul Linke, Nancy Parsons
Farmer Vincent Smith and his sister Ida run a motel attached to a farm where they capture unsuspecting travelers, bury them alive, fatten them up and then harvest their bodies as ingredients for his famous brand of "smoked meats."
House of 1000 Corpses
›R2003 · Horror · 89m · Sid Haig, Bill Moseley, Sheri Moon Zombie
Two teenage couples traveling across the backwoods of Texas searching for urban legends of serial killers end up as prisoners of a bizarre and sadistic backwater family of serial killers.
Ed Gein
›2000 · Crime, Drama, Horror · 89m · Steve Railsback, Carrie Snodgress, Carol Mansell
The true story of Edward Gein, the farmer whose horrific crimes inspired Psycho, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and The Silence of the Lambs. This is the first film to Gein's tormented upbringing, his adored but domineering mother, and the 1957 arrest uncovered the most bizarre series of murders America has ever seen