I love this movie so much

One of my all time favorites.

Good concept, poorly executed.

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

Talking about wasting a potentially fine and interesting subject. Here we have a movie about Ed Gein, which is about the best and most interesting American horror-story, mainly because it of course all really happened. The movie however doesn't work out as good and effective because of the reason that the movie picks a wrong approach for its subject. The movie picks a more Hollywood horror approach, in which the killer and his action get depicted as sensational-horror. The movie tries hard to get personal at times and dig into the the mind of Gein but all is in vein really.The movie still could had been a decent one of its horror, atmosphere and tension would had been better. The movie however more or less fails on each of these fronts, making "In the Light of the Moon" an ineffective movie within its genre. Perhaps if the movie would had been made 30 years earlier with a more '70's style over it the movie could had still worked out. Now you're instead better off watching the other Gein movie "Deranged", which is a surprising good movie about Gein, without using the real names of the persons.It's a pretty distant movie that remains mostly on the surface. It shows too much of the things that aren't interesting and too little of the things that were potentially interesting. For instance the movie shows very little of Gein's grave-robbing and how he used to skin his victims and use body parts for decoration and suits out of real people's skin. The movie is more being a light-version of the Ed Gein story, as if this movie got aimed toward TV only.It must had really been a dream-project for Steve Railsback, since he also produced. It was a kind of role that could had launched him to stardom and he also certainly ain't too bad in his role and he does look like Gein but due to the movie its execution his character also doesn't really work out effectively.It's not an horrible movie but considering its subject it's still a disappointing one.5/10http://bobafett1138.blogspot.com/

This is probably the best film concerning Edward Gein, a Wisconsin farmer that would become known as The Butcher of Plainfield. Steve Railsback plays Gein, who would rob graves of women who resembled his mother Augusta(Carrie Snodgress)to take home and have sex with them. He would also use certain portions of skin for a "woman suit". He also decorated his home with furniture and clothing made from the skin and bones of corpses. He would be arrested and convicted of only two murders, but suspect for six to a dozen other slayings between 1947 and 1957. The necrophiliac butcher would die some 27 years later in an Institute for the Criminally Insane. Also in the cast: Steve Blackwood, Craig Zimmerman, Carol Mansell and Sally Champlin. Some very disturbing scenes; but highly recommended if you like true life crime movies with minimum exaggeration.

There have been many films made that are either based on the case or simply the character of the real-life "Plainfield Ghoul" Ed Gein but this is the one that sticks the closest to the facts. Once again, Steve Railsback assumes the role of a notorious American criminal as he did once before as Charles Manson in "Helter Skelter" and he plays the role wonderfully. Mr. Railsback also served as producer of this film and apparently insisted that Carrie Snodgrass play the role of Mrs. Gein, Ed's mother which she did with gusto (as she does in any film that she is in Miss Snodgrass put on a great performance!). This is not an easy film to watch as the facts that surround this case are gruesome and grotesque and this film certainly does not shy away from that fact but for anyone who has seen "Silence of the Lambs", "Psycho", or "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" and has ever wondered what the real story was all about this is the most accurate portrayal of the facts out there. Part of a series of films about serial killers such as "Bundy" "Gacy" and "Speck" this film is by far the very best of the bunch.

This film is on DVD as "Ed Gein"; a much better title than the generic "In the Light of the Moon".Yes, this is bizarre, and insane. It is also based on truth. I remember reading once that Stephen King when he was a child, grew up being intrigued by Cahrles Starkweather, and his Midwest massacres. This story is all the more infamous because of Gein's necrophilia, and Steve Railsback is excellent(we may remember him from the earliest, and best "Helter Skelter" 1979 TV movie).While there are some oddities to this film, that is to be expected. This occurred in a desolate part of Wisonsin, cold and unforgiving. Augusta Gein (very well portrayed by Carrie Snodgress) was a fire and brimstone old world person, who lived in the Gein household long AFTER her death.....You will enjoy this film, and may want to read up up on the facts after seeing this. Sally Champlin, as Mary Hogan, is also pretty bizarre, as the local obese barmaid Gein takes a liking to.This subject is bizarre, but the film shows it in the cold light of day. In the end, Ed Gein spent his life living tranquilly in a state asylum. The nurses commented that he was very polite, and a gentleman. Good film for Halloween 9/10.