"Ed Gein" is a mediocre telling of the story of a once notorious and still infamous Wisconsin psychopath, murderer, cannibal, and necrophiliac. The film attempts to portray the man and spares the audience much of the horror of his deeds as it become a muddle of fact, flashbacks, apparitions, sundry visions, and vignettes of Gein's deranged activities with no clear purpose. Not a documentary or biopic, "Ed Gein" barely works as a docudrama with minimal entertainment and educational value.
