just o.k.

For anyone who hasn't seen this film, and I suggest that if you can find an uncensored VHS copy that you go that way, it is more than just O.K.
It is great and vastly underrated. The DVD censores the skull scooping scene, yet there are uncut VHS copies floating around. The movie does feature effects by Tom Savini and the greates on screen pprtayl of real life serial killer Ed Gein, by Mr. Roberts Blossom, who many years later went on to play the creepy old man neighbor/hero in the original "Home Alone". Mr. Blossom seemed to do justice to the role of Gein, who in this picture is named Ezra Cobb. This is one of the many fictional tales (others being "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre", "Psycho", and "The Silence Of The Lambs") to draw insperation from the tale of Ed Gein and it is the closest in detail. It is also vastly supperior to the Steven Railsback film "Ed Gein". There is also a terrifying phonograph (that's a record player for those of you who are too young to know the term, but informed enough to know what a record player is) sequence, that leads into a dinner sequence that reminds one of the dinner scene from the original "Texas Chainsaw Massacre". I think that this movie was overlooked because of the fact that it was outdone by "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre", both of which were released in 1974. So, once again, this film is well beyond being "just o.k." and I hope that you take the time to see it, even if it is on DVD (which I have seen released as a double feature with "Motel Hell").