A decade of seismic change in film, the '60s delivered at least one masterpiece in each major genre, from Psycho in horror to ...

Masked killers and looming specters are scary and all, but sometimes it's whatever's rattling around our skulls that instills the most fear. Psychological horror established itself as a subgenre of ...

Psycho is a 1960 American horror film produced and directed by Alfred Hitchcock. The screenplay, written by Joseph Stefano, was based on the 1959 novel of the same name by Robert Bloch. The film stars ...

Gein was an American murderer and grave robber from Plainfield, Wisconsin, whose gruesome crimes shocked the world in the 1950s. Born on August 27, 1906, Gein lived an isolated life under the strict ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Monster: The Ed Gein Story, which premiered in October 2025, centered on Gein’s crimes. Nicknamed ...

Is one of the most chilling characters in horror movie history based on a real person? Before there was Norman Bates, the knife-wielding murderer obsessed with his late mother in the seminal 1960 ...

Ed Gein's true crimes became a template for the modern-era serial killer in a string of horror movies. The horror novel and film "Psycho" were the first to draw upon Ed Gein's grisly murders. The ...

It’s almost October, which means it’s almost Halloween, which means it’s basically Halloween ... right? According to Boston’s local cinemas, it is. In the coming weeks, get in the right mind-set by ...

The dirty little secret about The Little Shop of Horrors, a 1960 movie produced and directed by Roger Corman and written by Charles B. Griffith, is just how good a movie it actually is. Corman, the ...

Widely considered to be the first slasher flick in Hollywood history, Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (now streaming on Peacock) served as the blueprint for everything from Black Christmas to Halloween to ...