Editing Errol Morris (section)

===Unfinished project on Ed Gein===
Inspired by [[Hitchcock]]'s ''[[Psycho (1960 film)|Psycho]]'', Morris visited [[Plainfield, Wisconsin]] in 1975, where he conducted multiple interviews with [[Ed Gein]], the infamous [[Body snatching|body snatcher]] who resided at [[Mendota Mental Health Institute|Mendota State Hospital]] in Madison. He later made plans with German film director [[Werner Herzog]], whom Tom Luddy had introduced to Morris, to return in the summer of 1975 to secretly open the grave of Gein's mother to test their theory that Gein himself had already dug her up. Herzog arrived on schedule, but Morris had second thoughts and was not there. Herzog did not open the grave. Morris later returned to Plainfield, this time staying for almost a year, conducting hundreds of hours of interviews. Despite this, his plans to either write a book or make a film (which he would call ''Digging up the Past'') were left unfinished at the time. In an October 2023 interview with [[Letterboxd]], Morris mentioned that he has since returned to the project, saying "I started rewatching ''Psycho'', because I'm making a movie about Ed Gein."<ref>{{Cite web |last=Kemp |first=Ella |date=2023-10-20 |title=Feel Bad Inc: Errol Morris on true crime, real horror and ridiculous habits |work=Journal  |url=https://letterboxd.com/journal/the-pigeon-tunnel-errol-morris-life-in-film-interview/ |access-date=2023-11-16 |publisher=Letterboxd |language=en |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231116184804/https://letterboxd.com/journal/the-pigeon-tunnel-errol-morris-life-in-film-interview/ |archive-date=2023-11-16 }}</ref>

In the fall of 1976, Herzog visited Plainfield again, this time to shoot part of his film ''[[Stroszek]]''.<ref>{{cite web |date=24 October 2016 |title=1976 Flashback: Werner Herzog and Errol Morris Plot to Dig Up Ed Gein's Mother's Grave |url=https://www.austinfilm.org/2016/10/1976-flashback-werner-herzog-errol-morris-plot-to-dig-up-ed-geins-mothers-grave/ |website=Austin Film Society}}</ref>