Robert Bloch - Movies

Movies

The following is a list of films based on Bloch's work. For some of these he wrote the original screenplay; for others, he supplied the story or a novel (as in the case of Psycho) on which the screenplay was based.

• Psycho (film) (1960) Dir: Alfred Hitchcock
• The Couch (1962). Screenplay by Bloch, based on a story by Blake Edwards and director Owen Crump. Bloch later novelized his own screenplay. Stars Grant Williams.
• The Cabinet of Caligari (1962). Dir: Roger Kay. The story of how director Roger Kay tried to rob Bloch of the writing credit for the film and of how Bloch won out is told in Bloch's autobiography.
• Strait-Jacket (1964). Original screenplay by Bloch. The first of his two screenplays for director William Castle.
• The Night Walker (1964). Original screenplay by Bloch. The second of two screenplays for director William Castle. The screenplay was later novelized by Sidney Stuart, with an introduction by Bloch. (The Night Walker, Award Books, Dec 1964. No ISBN; Award KA124F)
• The Skull (1965). The first of Bloch's six movies made for Amicus Productions. Based on Bloch's story but scripted by Milton Subotsky. Dir: Freddie Francis.
• The Psychopath (1966). 2nd of Bloch's Amicus movies. Original screenplay by Bloch. Dir: Freddie Francis.
• Torture Garden (1967). 3rd of Bloch's Amicus movies. Screenplay by Bloch based on four of his stories, including The Man Who Collected Poe (about Edgar Allan Poe). Dir: Freddie Francis
• The Deadly Bees (1967). 4th of Bloch's Amicus movies. Screenplay by Bloch based on Gerald Heard's A Taste of Honey Dir: Freddie Francis.
• The House That Dripped Blood (1970). 5th of Bloch's Amicus movies. Screenplay by Bloch based on four of his stories (except that Russ Jones adapted Waxworks, uncredited). Dir: Peter Duffel.
• Asylum (1972 film) (aka House of Crazies). 6th and final of Bloch's Amicus movies. Screenplay by Bloch based on four of his stories. The screenplay was novelized by William Johnston, (Asylum, Bantam Books, Dec 1972. No ISBN; Bantam 9195). Dir: Roy Ward Baker. Note: Bloch's story "Lucy Comes to Stay", one of the four stories incorporated in the film can be found reprinted in Peter Haining (ed) Ghost Movies: Classics of the Supernatural, Severn House, 1995 as "Asylum".
• The Cat Creature (TV movie, 1973). Original screenplay by Bloch, based upon a story by himself, Douglas S. Cramer and Wilfred Lloyd Baumes. Directed by Curtis Harrington. Starring Gale Sondergaard. For further details see under '1970's and 1980s' in Biography above.
• The Dead Don't Die (NBC TV movie 1975). Screenplay by Bloch based on his story (Fantastic Adventures, July 1951). Directed by Curtis Harrington. Starring Ray Milland, George Hamilton, Joan Blondell.
• The Return of Captain Nemo aka The Amazing Captain Nemo (1978). Bloch wrote the episode "Atlantis Dead Ahead".
• Psycho (1998). Dir: Based on Robert Bloch's original novel and the Hitchcock film of same.