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Released
2000 · FILM

Ed Gein

Before DAHMER, Before GACY, There was ED.

Directed by
Runtime
89 min
BiographyCrimeDrama
Streaming on
  • Paramount+

Synopsis

This film is based on the true story of Edward Gein, a farmer whose crimes inspired such films as *Psycho*, *The Texas Chainsaw Massacre*, and *The Silence of the Lambs*. It is the first film to explore Gein's troubled upbringing, his deeply devoted but controlling mother, and the 1957 arrest that revealed one of the most bizarre murder cases in American history.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 20

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Elena MaganiniShot by Vanja CernjulScored by Robert McnaughtonDesigned by Mark Harper

Box Office

2000 · Box office

Grossed $6K worldwide

Worldwide gross

$6K

Worldwide gross$6K

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