Ezra Cobb (Ed Gein) is a hopeless mama's boy who caters to his mother's every need, but when she dies Ezra just can't control his grieving and soon falls into insanity. Unable to cope with the separation from his mother, he decides that it's high time he went and got her from that nasty old cemetery and brought her home. Unfortunately, Mama Cobb doesn't look so great (being dead for almost a year can do that to you). Ezra becomes a regular at the cemetery, collecting body parts from other corpses to help restore his mother.
Eventually, he starts bringing whole corpses home to keep Mom company. He also has become quite a ghoulish artist, hanging faces on the wall and keeping the skin of his victims to make a woman suit that he often wears while dancing in the moonlight (Ed also had gender issues). He also made bowls from human skulls, lamps made with a spinal column, and lampshades made from skin.
He eventually turns his interests toward live women (I guess he got tired of the smell) and when a few of the women from town start to go missing, nobody even thinks of Ezra Cobb, who is by all accounts considered a nice guy. The police soon link him to one of the disappearances and when they come to his house to check things out, they find a woman in his barn... decapitated, gutted, and hung upside down like a deer. It turns out that sweet and gentle Ezra has been a very naughty boy.
Even though this movie is very gross and disturbing, it doesn't even compare to the real events that occurred in Plainfield Wisconsin at the hands of the real Ezra Cobb, the infamous necrophile Ed Gein.
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