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3 days ago · 1. Website. robertbloch.net. Robert Albert Bloch (/ blɒk /; April 5, 1917 – September 23, 1994) was an American fiction writer, primarily of crime, psychological horror and fantasy, much of which has been dramatized for radio, cinema and television. He also wrote a relatively small amount of science fiction.
3 days ago · Thriller. Psychological. A Phoenix secretary embezzles $40,000 from her employer's client, goes on the run and checks into a remote motel run by a young man under the domination of his mother ...
4 days ago · Psycho is a 1960 American horror film produced and directed by Alfred Hitchcock.The screenplay, written by Joseph Stefano, was based on the 1959 novel of the same name by Robert Bloch.The film stars Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles, John Gavin, and Martin Balsam.The plot centers on an encounter between on-the-run embezzler Marion Crane (Leigh) and shy motel proprietor Norman Bates ...
3 days ago · Psycho is an American horror franchise consisting of six films loosely based on the Psycho novels by Robert Bloch: Psycho, Psycho II, Psycho III, Bates Motel, Psycho IV: The Beginning, the 1998 remake of the original film, and additional merchandise spanning various media. The first film, Psycho, was directed by filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock. [1]
4 days ago · Norman Bates in Alfred Hitchcock’s classic Psycho (1960) and its source material Robert Bloch’s 1959 novel of the same name, Leatherface in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974), Buffalo Bill in The Silence of the Lambs (1991) and many other serial killer movies have borrowed from the chilling details of Gein’s life.
Sep 20, 2024 · The Bates Motel Is Home to a Mystery With a Twist. Based on the 1959 novel by Robert Bloch, Psycho follows a Phoenix-based real estate secretary, Marion Crane, who steals money from her employer to run away to California and get married to her boyfriend. Marion gets tired during her travels and stops at the Bates Motel, managed by Norman Bates ...
Sep 17, 2024 · The “Butcher of Plainfield” was eventually convicted of Worden’s murder and institutionalized until his death in 1984 at age 77. His crimes helped inspire fictional movie killers such ...
2 days ago · He did not, however, keep her mummified body; that's one of the few elements Robert Bloch had to invent for his 1959 novel "Psycho," which Alfred Hitchcock turned into one of the greatest horror ...
Sep 17, 2024 · First coming to public attention thanks to Robert Bloch’s 1959 novel Psycho and Alfred Hitchcock’s 1960 movie adaptation of the same name, Gein was the initial inspiration behind the psychotic motel caretaker Norman Bates.
Sep 8, 2024 · A novel by Robert Bloch The Castle: it looms over the streets of modern Chicago. Its stone walls conceal a maze of secret passageways and hidden rooms, private laboratories and concealed trapdoors.
