Horror Movies that were Inspired by True Events

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

For those who haven’t seen the movie, the Texas Chainsaw Massacre is about a group of teens who came across a home full of cannibals. A well known character is the terrifying chainsaw wielding Leatherface, a man with multiple disorders and disfigurement, who wears the flesh of his victims as a mask...

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Horror Movies that were Inspired by True Events : The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

This movie had a low budget and even the actor who played the infamous slasher had to use a real chainsaw around the other actors. The movie was a big hit, but you may not know the inspiration behind this classic 1974 film. The inspiration behind this was a man of the name of Ed Gein, a really strange serial killer. Ed Gein was born on August 27, 1906, his mother was very abusive and religious, being forced to listen to his mother's prayers about lust and sin.

Ed had no friends and his only brother died from accident, but many believed that Gien was the one behind the murder. Ed Gein's mother's religious beliefs became worse as she told Ed that looking or speaking to other women would lead to sin, ending up in hell. His mother died in 1945, but he continued maintaining all of her belongings and working strange jobs around the town, the people at the time described him as a very shy man who always gets the work done. Years later, Ed would slowly try to impersonate his own mother wearing her clothing and quoting her prayers. In 1957, a young woman who worked at a small hardware store named Bernice Wordon went missing. Her son claims the last person she was seen with was Ed Gei, he was arrested and police were able to get a warrant to check around the farm.

They found Msr. Wordon´s dead body, she had been shot with a 22. K rifle, hung upside like an animal, her stomach was cut open and her organs were removed, her head was missing. While investigating Ed Gein's home, more grizzly sights were found, five heads were found inside plastic bags, four skulls, masks of human faces, furniture made of human skin, and bowls made from skulls. Although this may seem like the work of a serial killer, only two people were killed, many were corpses that were dug up from a nearby cemetery. He was found guilty and sent to a mental asylum, he died in 1984 from lung cancer.

Even if he was not a world famous serial killer, his impact left many citizens shivering in fright, and inspired a classic 1974, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.