Is one of the most frightening characters in the history of horror films based on a real person?
Before Norman Bates was, a killer who has a knife, obsessed with his deceased mother in the original film of 1960, was Ed Gane, a killer whose crimes were discovered in 1957 on his Wisconsian farm.
The Playinfield butcher is the subject of the new Netflix series “Monster: The Ed Gee Story”, which begins to be broadcast on October 3. Charlie Hannam is played by Gain, who admitted that he killed two people and was found with numerous objects made of human leather on his farm in Wisconsin.
“Psycho” was a revolutionary film that frightened the audience with the image of the human killer, and not the supernatural ghouls, who were previously the main characters in most horror films.
“Before, Ed Gane, our relationship with monsters in the cinema was a Dracula, Frankenstein and werewolves”, Charlie Hannam, who plays Gain in Monster, He said today September 30. “And“ Psycho ”was a turning point where we became monsters, and all this was a direct consequence of what influence Ed Gane had.”
Gain's life was a catalyst for some of the most legendary horror films and the unknown of all time.
“He was a source of inspiration for“ psycho ”by Alfred Hitchcock, Buffalo Bill in the“ Silence of the Yagnyat ”and“ Texas massacre on the chainsaws ”, so he had this great cultural influence,” Hannam said. “We kind of returning and look at the inspiration of inspiration for these films.”
Here's what to find out about how the story of Edge Gain played a role in creating a “psycho”.
Who was Ed Gane?
Gain was brought up with his brother in isolation on the Visconsin farm in the 1920s and 30s of his imperious and fanatical religious mother, as well as a father who drank heavily and often cruel to his children.
Gain was never married and lived on a family farm in Plainfield after the death of both his parents. In 1957, the local deputy discovered the headless body of a local missing woman, Bernis Warden, hanging on the side of his house.
This led to the terrible discovery of the preserved human heads, mummified parts of the body, skull and objects, such as lampshades and places for stools made of human skin on the property of Gain. He also admitted to the murder of the owner of the tavern Mary Hogan in 1954 and said that from 1944 to 1952 he expelled the corpses of women from local cemeteries.
“Psycho” based on Ed Gain?
The legendary director Alfred Hitchcock never said that his 1960 film with the participation of Anthony Perkins in 1960 in the role of Norman Bates was based on Heine's life.
Nevertheless, the film is based on the horror novel of 1959 by the “psycho” of the writer Robert Bloc. The novel came out two years after Gain's crimes fell into the headlines.
Hitchcock is a character in the Netflix series and the star of “White Lotus” Tom Hollander plays, so the connection is part of the story in “Monster”.
Blok lived 50 miles from a farm house Gaine in Wisconsin and founded his book on Hein's stories, at that time Miluoi Sentenel-magazine said, according to the Necrologist of the 1984 Associated Press.
The obituary also said that the film “Psycho” was “according to reports”, based on the history of Gain. Gain died in 77, spending all his time in psychiatric institutions in Wisconsin after his arrest in 1957. Another 1984 necrologist from United Press International called Gein as an inspiration for Psycho.
How does Norman Bates look like Eda Gaine?
One of the aspects that they clearly share is the unhealthy obsession with their mothers.
Ed Gane grew mainly on an isolated farm in the playinfield, Wisconsin, under the thumb of his powerful mother, Augusta Gain.
Gain's fanatically religious mother isolated him from friends at school and drove into him that women were immoral. Gain was never married and did not become inseparable from his mother, worshiping her and looking for her approval.
The report of the Central State Hospital in Wisconsin in 1957 shows that Gain, who was 51 years old at that time, was “extremely emotionally attached to his mother.”
“After the death of his mother, he felt that he had a special power, thanks to which he could resurrect the dead to life thanks to the act of his willpower; And when he discovered that this was not successful, his emotional needs influenced him to try to recreate his mother using parts of bodies from other graves, ”the report says.
In the film “Psycho” a young man named Norman Bates, played by Anthony Perkins, controls the Motor in California with a side hobby as a taxidermist. Perkins appears as a character in the “monster”, played by Joei Pollari.
Like the Gaine farm in the playinfield, the Bates motel is located in a remote small town.
The film first makes him ambiguous, whether Bates or his mother, who killed the guest of the hotel, and then the detective, looking for her in the motel.
In the frightening stage, the character’s sister, who was killed by Bates, discovers the mummified body of Bates’s mother in a fruit basement. Then Bates appears in women's clothes and a wig.
A great disclosure after Bates caught that he had killed his mother, and then held her corpse in his house in adversity. He developed a divided person like Bates and Mother, often conducts a conversation between two characters.
Just as Gain avoids relations with women from the tireless surrender of his mother, Bates would have heard the voice of the “mother” in his head whenever he was attracted to a woman.
In the report of the Central State Hospital, Hein told the interviewers that he “heard his mother several times talking to him during the year after her death.”
The report from the Visconsian hospital mentions the topic of dressing dead women in connection with his mother. The interviewers describing his grave wrote that “it seems likely that this activity was the result of his desire to recreate the existence of his own mother,” although Gain denied this.
The sensational part of Gain's crimes in popular films and other creative work in decades is affected by Monster.
“I think this is one of the questions that we ask in the show:“ Who is the monster? “This boy, who did terrible things, but was subjected to violence and left in isolation with unprocessed mental health problems, or by this legion of directors who drew inspiration in his life and sensation for entertainment and, possibly, darkened the American psyche in the process? “Hannam said today.
