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page 1Films based on works by Robert Bloch

Psycho (1960 film)
Psycho is a 1960 American horror film produced and directed by Alfred Hitchcock. The screenplay, written by Joseph Stefano, is 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), shy motel proprietor Norman Bates (Perkins) and his disturbed mother. A private investigator (Balsam), Marion's lover Sam Loomis (Gavin) and her sister Lila (Miles) investigate her disappearance.

Psycho
1998 film directed by Gus Van Sant

The House That Dripped Blood
1971 film by Peter Duffell

Torture Garden
1967 film by Freddie Francis

Asylum
1972 film directed by Roy Ward Baker

The Skull
1965 British horror film directed by Freddie Francis