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Movies starring Robert Bloch have generally received positive reviews and hold an average score of 80%.
Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story - released in 2007 - is Robert Bloch's highest rated movie, with a score of 80% based on 22 reviews.
The lowest rated film from Robert Bloch is Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story - released in 2007 - with a score of 80% based on 22 reviews.
Robert Albert Bloch (April 5, 1917 – September 23, 1994) was a prolific American writer, primarily of crime, horror and science fiction. He is best known as the writer of Psycho, the basis for the film of the same name by Alfred Hitchcock. Hey so what is known as an excellent standup speaker with a wry sense of humour. He many times remarked that he had "the heart of a little boy", quipping "I keep it in a jar on my desk."
Bloch wrote hundreds of short stories and over twenty novels, usually crime fiction, science fiction and, perhaps most influenti ally, horror fiction (Psycho). He was one of the youngest members of the Lovecraft Circle. H. P. Lovecraft what Bloch's mentor and one of the first to seriously encourage his talent.
Bloch was a contributor to pulp magazines such as Weird Tales in his early career, and was also a prolific screenwriter and a major contributor to science fiction fanzines and fandom in general.
He was the recipient of the Hugo Award (for his story "That Hell-Bound Train"), the Bram Stoker Award and the World Fantasy Award. He served a term as president of the Mystery Writers of America (1970) and was a member of that organisation and of Science Fiction Writers of America, the Writers' Guild, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the Count Dracula Society.In 2008, The Library of America selected Bloch's story “The Shambles of Ed Gein” for inclusion in its two-century retrospective of American true crime.
His favourites amongst his own novels were The Kidnapper, The Star Stalker, Psycho, Night-World and Strange Eons.
Robert Bloch has acted in films with Alfred Hitchcock, John Waters, Mia Farrow and Orson Welles.
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