Landscape Suicide (1987)
Benning continues his examination of Americana in this film through the stories of two murderers. Ed Gein was a Wisconsin farmer and multiple murderer who taxidermied his victims in the 1950s. Bernadette Protti was a California teenager who stabbed a friend to death over an insult in 1984.
- Date of release
- 1987-09-17
- TMDB
- 7.4 / 10 (27)
- Runtime
- 1h 35m
- Genres
- Crime, Drama
- Director
- James Benning
Casting
- Rhonda Bell — Bernadette Protti
- Elion Sucher — Ed Gein
- Eve E. Ellis — Tennis Player
- Lisbeth Jetton — Girl on Phone
- Pegge Winslow — Woman Dancing
- John Benning — Hunter
- Rusty Johnson — Man at Farm
- Dorothy Zeidman — Narrator (voice)
- Chris Cordes — FBI Interrogator (voice)
- Ira Shapiro — Attorney (voice)
- Ron Vawter — Prosecutor (voice)
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