6 Movies and TV Shows Inspired by Ed Gein's Brutal Crimes
6 Horror Movies and TV Shows Inspired by Ed Gein's Disturbing Crimes
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It's not the human liver and fava bean-eating Hannibal Lecter who's based on Ed Gein in 1991's The Silence of the Lambs, it's the serial killer Jame Gumb, aka Buffalo Bill. He targets female victims, starving them after their capture so that their skin is easy to remove when he kills them. From their body, he creates skin suits that he can wear, just as Gein made clothes from the corpses he acquired. In addition to Gein, Gumb is also based on the disturbing cases of killers such as Ted Bundy, Ed Kemper, and Gary Heidnik.