--- sonny <
sforstater@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> but psycho and bloch are OT, sorry. i brought it
up
> because of what i'd
> heard about woolrich and norman
>
Having looked into this for my series on Hitchcock, I can
tell you that Robert Bloch is on the record as having based
Psycho on newspaper reports of Ed Gein. It's one of the
reasons that that Psycho is so tame in terms of the reality
of Ed Gein whose exploits -- such as they were -- were not
the fodder of family newspapers. The real and grisly and
despicable story of Ed Gein wouldn't come out until years
later. Yes, Woolrich had a bizarre relationship with his
mother. But he didn't kill her and stick her in the root
cellar. And neither did Ed Gein kill his mother
(Gein's, not Woolrich's). There's nothing to suggest that
Bloch knew anything of Woolrich's relationship with
Woolrich's mother. While there may have been any number of
rumors, Nevins biography of Woolrich, First You Dream, Then
You Die wasn't even published until 1982. So, whether OT or
not, I doubt there is anything to this story.
William
Essays and Ramblings
<http://www.williamahearn.com>
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