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Myriad Ways for Digging Up Graves: Ed Gein in a Daze
·1 hr 15 min·7 clips
Sheriff Schley's flashlight reveals Bernice Worden's headless, cleaned-out carcass hanging upside down in Ed Gein's dark farmhouse.
As heard by us
A dark finale that turns Gein into the framework of modern horror.
This finale treats Ed Gein as the ugly source code for a lot of American horror. It follows the line from Plainfield to Psycho, Leatherface, and Buffalo Bill, then returns to the house, where flashlights, mattresses, and the hidden head carry the kind of weight that sticks.
Why you'd press play
When you want Ed Gein's case tied to the horror canon it helped shape.
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