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Halloween Special! Ed Gein and Slasher Movies

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The Evolution of Norman Bates and Texas Chainsaw Massacre

There is an evolution between those two movies, right? So Psycho comes out in 1960. Texas Chainsaw Massacre comes out in 1973. And it's interesting to me too that Leatherface as a character has this queerness about him that isn't really part of... Yeah, he wears a dress. He wears a wig when he's being sort of the mother role of the family. He's sort of the Wendy. The most expensive effect you have to buy is the illusion that a madman is murdering a sexually attractive young woman. Like, who can say why people love this, but they really seem to. Let's keep making these.

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