Howard Carter (not THAT one)

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Just recently rewatched it along with reading the source novel

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About to head into River Oaks Theater... @robsaucedo.bsky.social nice to see this full of a house!

screenshot from robertbloch.net (Audience question regarding the aspects of the Ed Gein murder case as they have supposedly, "historically" applied to Psycho. This otherwise cliched question rates inclusion here because of the breadth of Bob's definitive answer.) BOB: First of all, I didn't know anything about those aspects when I wrote Psycho. I did not use Ed Gein as a basis for Norman Bates at all; I used the circumstances, which were: somebody could live in a small town, where everybody knows everybody else's business, and conduct a series of murders without anyone suspecting. But people don't like this. They like to believe the legend. When you get right down to it, Ed Gein did not run a motel. He killed nobody in the shower. He did not preserve the body of his mother. None of those things were part of Mr. Gein's background. I invented a character at the time which, not having read the details, which were not being printed initially or immediately, because they were very prudish in most cases. Life magazine and a few other publications later came out with a great deal of stuff, but I would not have used it even if it had been available, because it didn't meet with my particular plot requirements. But the legend persists, and will continue to persist. A little over two weeks ago, I think, a network show called Hard Copy asked if they could interview me regarding Psycho. I said I did not want to be interviewed; I didn't want to go down to a studio. They said, "We'll send a crew out." I said to myself, well, if it's good enough for Ackerman, it's good enough for me...

screenshot continued They came, and throughout this interview they kept asking, "Didn't you think of Norman Bates because of Ed Gein?" Didn't Ed Gein inspire the characterization, and blah-blah-blah. I kept telling them what I just told you, and the interviewer and crew kept looking sadder. And sadder. I said to myself this isn't going to happen. Sure enough, the show came on, and they'd gone to Plainfield, which had been Gein's home town, and they did a very nice broadcast regarding the case, and they used some dramatization footage which I swear was probably part of a documentary that had been made at the time, because it was in black and white instead of color, and was not aired because it was undoubtedly too strong for audiences then. They salvaged that and put together this program. And I was a non-person. I didn't exist. My name wasn't mentioned, and I certainly did not appear onscreen. Obviously, if I had, they would not have had a program, because their title was The Inside Story: The Truth About the Ed Gein Murders! And my denials were the exact antithesis. This is a horrible lesson in how easy it is for media, today, to distort by omission, or by any kind of editing, what actually happened, what occurred. What I'm citing is trivial; it doesn't mean anything one way or the other. But think of the implications-how this sort of censorship and willful distortion affects so called "news" reporting, and so-called documentaries, on various topics that are of social or historical importance to an audience. And that's something that scares me far more than the activities of Mr. Gein.

all the press around the Ed Gein show seems to insist that Robert Bloch used Gein as the inspiration for Norman Bates - it’s become the accepted narrative - but here’s the thing: he didn’t!

New goal: Become a wealthy and successful filmmaker so I can score an invite to the Criterion Closet.

Got my copy for Murder By The Book!

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Heading in

Nope ...I'll have to look at his filmography, but I'm pretty sure. Most of his stuff outside of Glee has been cable right?

Somehow I've avoided seeing anything Murphy has done, and seems like I've made the right choice

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Yeah...been a long time since I've seen MILLIONAIRE so we think we should watch it again now to compare

At MFAH to see THE GREEKS HAD A WORD FOR THEM (which later got remade as HOW TO MARY A MILLIONAIRE)

Appreciate THE MAGICIAN more upon rewatch. Disappointed in THE FLAME AND THE ARROW. Watched THE RETURN as I get ready for Nolan's ODYSSEY next year

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My stepson (who's in his 40s) LOVES the first one. I've always been immune to its chrams

Just preordered the audio version

I've seen it, but it's been years. Not sure that a 4K upgrade makes sense, but I'm tempted

Not many cast members left I think?

Hmm...how good could a 4K version look?

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Quentin Tarantino’s ‘KILL BILL’ movies will be released in theaters as one complete movie on December 5.

• Will include a never-before-seen 7-minute animated sequence

• Select presentations will be in 70mm and 35mm