The latter is perhaps closest to his real-life counterpart due to writer Robert Bloch’s focus on the psyche of the killer, which was then put into film by Alfred Hitchcock. It all inspired the creation of iconic horror movie monsters such as Leatherface from The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974), Buffalo Bill from Silence of the Lambs (1991), and most notably Norman Bates from Psycho (1960). His crimes involved killings followed by revolting and bizarre acts with human bodies that ranged from necrophilia to wearing skin suits and masks made of real human skin. Gein is in a unique position to be explored as a character, something that Powell and Schechter seem to be well aware of.
It goes from childhood to old age and it focuses on two big phases in his life: his upbringing with a strict, near-misanthropic but fundamentally religious mother figure, and the aftermath of his arrest for his many crimes, in all its dimensions. As stated, What Eddie Gein Done? looks at the life of the killer that many got to know as The Butcher of Plainfield, after Gein’s hometown. Powell and Schechter share writing duties but the art is all courtesy of the man who created The Goon, Powell himself.
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