ed gein represent the butcher of plainfield be set in the small american town of plainfield in wisconsin during 1957 where loner ed gein ( kane hodder ) live by himself on a farm after the death if his mother and brother . the local police have have a spate of grave robbery to deal with and when local barmaid sue layton ( ceia coley ) suspicion grow that something nasty be go on . ed be a violent sexually deviant man who kidnap girl and murder them and will the police figure the truth out in time to save erica ( adrienne frantz ) the sheriff ( timothy oman ) daughter . write and produce and direct by michael feifer this be an attempt to base a horror film around the true event surround notorious serial killer ed gein and turn out to be pretty crap . the real life ed gein be only ever convict of two murder and die in 1984 but several film have be inspire by him include the texas chainsaw massacre ( 1974 ) and derange ( 1974 ) and ed gein ( 2000 ) with this fairly recent addition possibly be the bad gein film ever . even though ed gein be real next to nothing in this film be base on fact and gein never have an accomplice and none of his victim be relate to any of the investigating officer and there be no car crash victim and although gein keep his name other people have have name change and the kidnapping and murder of the two woman depict here actually happen four year apart in reality but in this film it happen over the course of a couple of day and while here gein be show a a large hulking muscular man in reality he be a scrawny and thin and old and quite short . a a factual drama ed gein represent the butcher of plainfield be worthless and a pure entertainment it no well with a deadly dull pace and feel to it and the character be all boring and when he isn not kill someone gein be show work or just walk around and it very dull . there no suspense because we know who the killer be and it just a tedious wait until he get catch at the end . there be no real attempt to get into gein mind with the maker give him no more motivation than him occasionally have hallucination of his domineer mother . there isn not much gore here and there a scene with a woman hang on a meat hook and there a really badly edited scene of gein cut a leg off and there the usual jar of bodily organ and skull lie around as well a a bit of blood but there really not much here to get excite about . the film be obviously process to bleach a lot of the colour out of the picture a it not far off black and white at time and i personally think the lack of colour make it even duller to sit through . with a supposed budget of about $ 1 and 500 and 000 i can not really see where the money go in a very forgettable production . although set in wisconsin this be film in california . kane hodder be all wrong for the role of ed gein and just from a physical point of view hodder doesn not look even remotely like gein and he give a pretty poor performance to a he just star at the camera a lot make silly face . ed gein represent the butcher of plainfield be crap and it as simple and straightforward a that . a either a factual drama or pure exploitation entertainment this be total tripe from start to finish with nothing to recommend it .