In 2003, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre was reborn—grittier, darker, and drenched in dread. But what many don’t realize is that its horror wasn’t entirely fiction. The film’s chainsaw-wielding killer, Leatherface, was inspired by a real man… Ed Gein. A quiet, unassuming loner from Plainfield, Wisconsin, who, after his mother’s death, began unearthing corpses from local cemeteries and using their remains to create masks, furniture, and clothing. His crimes shocked America in the 1950s and helped sha